Ursprache \ OOR-shprah-khuh; German OOR-shprah-khuh \ , noun;
- a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
Origin: Ursprache came to Enlgish in the 20th century from the German prefix ur- meaning "earliest, original" and Sprache meaning "speech."
tinnies \ Australian, noun;
- cans; tins of beer.
Hundereds of empty tinnies littered the floor of my house.
History
- Daughters of the American Revolution: lineage-based, conservative patriotic society was founded (1890)
- Vatican II: ecumenical council that led to liberalization and modernization of the church was convened by Pope John XXIII(1962)
- Saturday Night Live: late-night comedy-variety show debuted on NBC; George Carlin hosted (1975)
Birthdays
- Parson Mason Weems 1759 - He was responsible for the story about George Washington cutting down his father's cherry tree.
- Henry Heinz 1884
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884
- Willie Hoppe 1887
- Charles Revson 1906
- Joseph Alsop 1910
- Jerome Robbins 1918
- Art Blakey 1919
- Linda Stirling 1921
- Knobby (Grant) Warwick 1921
- Elmore Leonard 1925
- James Morrison 1931
- Dottie West 1932
- Ron Leibman 1937
- Maria Bueno 1939
- Gene Watson 1943
- Robert Gale 1945
- Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) 1948
- Catlin Adams 1950
- Andre Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire) 1950
- David Morse 1953
- Paulette Carlson 1953
- Steve Young (NFL) 1961
- Joan Cusack 1962
- Sean Patrick Flanery 1965
- Luke Perry 1966
- Jane Kradowski 1968
- MC Lyte 1971
- NeeNa Lee 1975
- Michelle Trachtenberg 1985
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