Tuesday, October 14, 2014

pericope \ puh-RIK-uh-pee \ , noun; 

1. a selection or extract from a book. 
2. a portion of sacred writing read in a divine service; lesson; lection. 

Origin: Pericope came to Enlgish in the mid-1600s, and is ultimately derived from the Greek perikopḗ meaning "a cutting."

requestion

• requesting something indirectly by way of a question note: this is distinguished from a regular question because the answer is usually obvious

"are those peanut m&m's?" (requestion)

"yes, would you like some?"

"yeah"

History

• Battle of Hastings: the last Anglo-Saxon king of England fell to William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest (1066)

  
• sound barrier: was broken for the first time by a person, United States Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager, who flew a secret experimental Bell X-1 jet at supersonic speed (1947)
• Peace Corps: the idea to send American volunteers abroad was first mentioned by JFK when he was a presidential candidate (1960)

Birthdays

• William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
• Dwight David Eisenhower (U.S.) 1890
• Lillian Gish 1893
• E.E. Cummings 1894
• Eugene Fodor 1905
• Allan Jones 1908
• John Wooden 1910
• C. Everett Koop 1916
• Bill Justis 1926

• Roger Moore 1927
• Robert Webber 1928
• Melba Montgomery 1938
• Ralph Lauren 1939
• Cliff Richard 1940
• Tommy Harper (MLB) 1940
• J.C. Snead 1941
• Billy Harrison (Them) 1942
• Udo Kier 1944
• Al Oliver (MLB) 1946
• Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues) 1946
• Charlie Joiner (NFL) 1947
• Marcia Barrett (Boney M) 1948
• Sheila Young 1950
• Harry Anderson 1952
• Greg Evigan 1953
• Beth Daniel 1956
• Arleen Sorkin 1956
• Thomas Dolby 1958
• Keith Byars (NFL) 1963
• Karyn White 1965
• John Seda 1970
• Jimmy Jackson 1970
• Doug Virden (Sons of the Desert) 1970
• Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) 1974
• Shaznay Lewis (All Saints) 1975
• Usher 1978