Monday, October 13, 2014

Monday, October 13, 2014

moniker \ MON-i-ker \ , noun;
  • Slang . a person's name, especially a nickname or alias. 
Origin: Moniker is derived from the Shelta word mŭnnik meaning "name." It entered English in the mid-1800s. Shelta is an argot used in parts of the British Isles based in part on Irish.  

immaturation 
  • the process of becoming immature
by revisiting old posts we were able to witness the immaturation of the internet from a place of cordial dissent to whiny bickering.


Holidays
  • Columbus Day (USA)
  • Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
History
  • White House: the cornerstone was laid for the building then known as the Executive Mansion (1792)
  • universal time: the meridian of longitude of Greenwich, England, was established as the basis of calculating the world's time (1884)
  • World Series: Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first baseball championship games (1903)
  • Miracle of the Sun: according to reports, tens of thousands of people saw the sun cast colored lights and spin toward the earth near Fátima, Portugal (1917)
  • Italy: switched sides in WWII and declared war on Nazi Germany (1943)
  • Hosni Mubarak: the Egyptian vice president was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination (1981); he was Egypt's longest-serving president
Birthdays
  • Mary Ludwig 1754
  • Rudolf Virchow 1821
  • Wilbur Shaw 1902
  • Herblock (Herbert Block) 1909
  • Cornel Wilde 1915
  • Burr Tillstrom 1917
  • Laraine Day 1920
  • Yves Montand 1921
  • Lou Saban (NFL) 1921
  • Nipsey Russell 1924
  • Lenny Bruce 1925
  • Frank D. Gilroy 1925
  • Margaret Thatcher (Britain) 1925
  • Eddie Yost (MLB) 1926
  • Shirley Caesar 1928
  • Eddie Mathews (MLB) 1931
  • Cliff Gorman 1936
  • Melinda Dillon 1939
  • Paul Simon 1941
  • Pamela Tiffin 1942
  • Jerry Jones 1943
  • Robert Lamm (The Big Thing, Chicago) 1944
  • Karen Akers 1945
  • Demond Wilson 1946
  • Lacy J. Dalton 1946
  • Sammy Hagar 1947
  • John Lone 1952
  • Beverly Johnson 1952
  • Marie Osmond 1959
  • John Wiggins 1962
  • Jerry Rice (NFL) 1962
  • Kelly Preston 1962
  • T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah 1962
  • Kate Walsh 1967
  • Rhett Akins 1969
  • Nancy Kerrigan 1969
  • Tisha Campbell 1970
  • Sacha Baron Cohen 1971
  • Jan Van Sichem Jr. (K's Choice) 1972
  • Katia Winter 1983
  • Tiffany Trump 1993



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