Thursday, October 16, 2014

Thursday, October 16, 2014

curlicue \ KUR-li-kyoo \ , noun; 
  • an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature. 
Origin: Curlicue came to English in the mid-1800s. The cue component comes from the French queue meaning "tail," and ultimately is derived from the Latin word cōda.

Procrasturbating
  • Using masturbation to otherwise occupy yourself while pressing matters await.
I had a paper due today, but I spent all night procrasturbating, so fuck that noise.

History
  • Marie Antoinette: extravagant queen was beheaded during the French Revolution (1793)
  • John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry: the abolitionist John Brown attempted to seize a US arsenal in West Virginia; his group was defeated and he was executed for treason (1859)
  • birth control: nurse Margaret Sanger founded the first clinic in the US, in Brooklyn, New York, for which she was arrested (1916)
  • Cuban missile crisis: cold war confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union began when Khrushchev installed ballistic missiles in Cuba (1962)
  • Million Man March: African-American men rallied in Washington, DC, led by Louis Farrakhan, in an effort to increase voting and community involvement (1995)
Birthdays
  • Noah Webster 1758
  • Oscar Wilde 1854
  • David Ben-Gurion 1886
  • Eugene O'Neill 1888
  • Linda Darnell 1921
  • Bert Kaempfert 1923
  • Angela Lansbury 1925
  • Gunter Grass 1927
  • Charles Colson 1931
  • Tony Anthony 1937
  • Nico (Velvet Underground) 1938
  • Barry Corbin 1940
  • Fred Turner (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1943
  • Dwight Douglas Lewis 1945
  • Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) 1946
  • Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) 1947
  • Bob Collyard 1949
  • Tim Robbins 1958
  • Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1959
  • Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
  • Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) 1969
  • B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971
  • Kellie Martin 1975
  • Jeremy Jackson 1980
 


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