Friday, November 28, 2014

TGIF! Friday, November 28, 2014

cline \ klahyn \ , noun; 
  1. Linguistics . (in systemic linguistics) a scale of continuous gradation; continuum. 
  2. Biology . the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species. 
Origin: Cline is derived from the Greek word klīnein . It entered English in the 1930s.

sacrelicious adj.
  1. A description of a recipe that should not exist for religious reasons, but tastes good anyway.
  2. Any cooking done with communion wafers.
Try some Matzo crackers and bacon dip - it's sacrelicious.
History
  • Strait of Magellan: the ships of explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific from the Atlantic by sailing through the strait that later took his name (1520)
  • Royal Society: long-lived UK scientific society was founded by learned men (1660)
  • Lady Nancy Astor: became the first woman member of the British Parliament (1919)
  • Mariner 4: spacecraft that sent the first pictures of the Martian surface was launched (1964)
Birthdays
  • John Bunyan 1628
  • Jean Baptiste Lully 1932
  • William Blake 1757
  • William Stanley 1858
  • Brooks Atkinson 1894
  • José Iturbi 1895
  • Charles Alston 1907
  • Dick Vance 1915
  • Wes Westrum (MLB) 1922
  • Gloria Grahame (Hallward) 1923
  • Berry Gordy, Jr. 1929
  • Hope Lange 1933
  • Ethel Ennis 1934
  • Gary Hart (Hartpence) 1936
  • Michael Ritchie 1938
  • Gary Troxel (The Fleetwoods) 1939
  • Bruce Channel 1940
  • Norm Beaudin (NHL) 1941
  • Paul Warfield (NFL) 1942
  • Randy Newman 1943
  • R.B. Greaves 1945
  • Joe Dante 1946
  • Susan Spencer 1946
  • Vern Den Herder (NFL) 1948
  • Beeb Birtles (The Little River Band) 1948
  • Paul Shaffer 1949
  • Alexander Godunov 1949
  • Ed Harris 1950
  • Judd Nelson 1959
  • Jon Stewart 1965
  • Anna Nicole Smith 1967
  • Matt Cameron (Soundgarden) 1962
  • Roy Tarpley (NBA) 1964
  • apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda Lindo) 1974 - Singer (Black Eyed Peas)
  • Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) 1968
  • Francesca Lé 1970 - t3h pr0n
  • Aimee Garcia 1978
  • Scarlett Pomers 1988
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