Saturday, November 15, 2014

foremost \ FAWR-mohst, -muhst, FOHR- \ , adjective, adverb; 

• first in place, order, rank, etc.: the foremost surgeons. 

Origin: Foremost has been in English since before 1000. It replaced the Old English word formest , which is related to the word first. 

 

bagside (noun) 

• The side of a body where a gigantic purse or messenger bag is carried, and an awkward barrier preventing others from walking comfortably alongside is often created.

I would hold your hand, baby, but I don't want to get on your bagside. 

 

History

• Pikes Peak: explorer Zebulon Pike first spotted the 14,000-foot (4,267 m.) Colorado mountain that eventually bore his name (1806)
• March to the Sea: Union commander Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began his attack "into the very bowels of the Confederacy" during the American Civil War (1864)
• Brazil: became a republic when its emperor, Pedro II, was deposed (1889)
• Wendy's: the first branch of the fast food chain was opened by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio (1969)
• Moratorium to end the war in Vietnam: up to an estimated half-million protesters marched peacefully on Washington, DC (1969)

Birthdays

• William Pitt the Elder 1708 - Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Gerhart Hauptmann 1862
• Georgia O'Keeffe 1887
• Joseph Wapner 1919
• Ed Asner 1929
• Whitman Mayo 1930
• Petula Clark 1932
• Jack Burns 1933
• Joanna Barnes 1934
• Barry McGuire 1937
• Sam Waterston 1940
• Daniel Barenboim 1942 - Israeli pianist and conductor
• Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945
• Mitch Easter 1954
• Beverly D'Angelo 1954
• Kevin Eubanks 1957
• E-40 1967
• ODB (Wu Tang Clan) 1968
• Jack Ingram 1970
• Chad Robert Kroeger 1974 - Singer/Guitarist (Nickelback)