Thursday, October 02, 2014

Thursday, October 2, 2014

crinose \ KRAHY-nohs, KRIN-ohs \ , adjective; 
  • hairy. 
Origin: Crinose finds its origin in the Latin crinīs meaning "hair." The suffix -ose is used in formation of adjectives borrowed from Latin to denote "full" or "abounding in." Crinose entered English in the 1720s.

hinky
  • Something as yet undefinable is wrong, out of place; not quite right.
There's something hinky about the deal.


History
  • Siege of Jerusalem: Islamic military leader Saladin retook the holy city from the Crusaders (1187)
  • HMS Beagle: naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England after a five-year sea voyage, during which he formulated his theory of natural selection (1836)
  • Opus Dei: Roman Catholic organization was founded by St. Josemaría Escrivá; it was popularized in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (1928)
  • The first episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE premiered on television (1959)
  • Thurgood Marshall: was sworn in as the Supreme Court's first African American justice (1967)
  • Rock Hudson: movie star died of AIDS; he was the first celebrity to announce he had the disease (1985)
Birthdays
  • Richard III 1452 - He married the widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his mother-in-law for life
  • Mahatma Gandhi 1869
  • Wallace Stevens 1879
  • Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life"
  • Ruth Cheney Streeter 1895 - The first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
  • Bud Abbott 1895
  • Graham Greene 1904
  • Paul Goldsmith 1927
  • Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) 1927
  • George "Spanky" McFarland 1928
  • Moses Gunn 1929
  • Maury Wills 1932
  • Rex Reed 1938
  • Don McLean 1945
  • Jo-el Sonnier 1946
  • Donna Karan 1948
  • Chris LeDoux 1948
  • Avery Brooks 1948
  • Richard Hell 1949
  • Annie Leibovitz 1949
  • Mike Rutherford (Mike & the Mechanics, Genesis) 1950
  • Gordon "Sting" Sumner (Police) 1951
  • Philip Oakey (Human League) 1955
  • Freddie Jackson 1956
  • Bud Gaugh (Sublime) 1967
  • Dion Allen (Az Yet) 1970
  • Kelly Ripa 1970 actress, MILF
    Jim "#4" Root 1971 Guitarist: SlipKnot / Stone Sour, Mr. Cristina Scabbia
  • Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch) 1971
  • LaTocha Scott (Xscape) 1973

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