Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

hypogeum \ hahy-puh-JEE-uhm, hip-uh- \ , noun; 
  1. an underground burial chamber. 
  2. Ancient Architecture . the underground part of a building, as a vault. 
Origin: Hypogeum comes from the Greek word hypógeion meaning “underground chamber.” It entered English in the early 1700s. 

wearable bed 
  • Developed in Japan, has two modes: 'bed' and 'coat.' Can be worn as a coat or used as an inflatable bed. Allows a person to sleep anywhere they want, and is one size fits all.
Mike: "What a great idea! The wearable bed."
Ann: "Yeah, I wish I thought of that."


Holiday
History
  • Susan B. Anthony: the suffragist attempted to vote in the 1872 presidential election although women were not allowed to; she was fined $100 but refused to pay (1872)
  • Monopoly: the popular Parker Brothers board game was released (1935)
  • FDR: beat Wendell Wilkie to win an unprecedented third term as US president (1940)
  • Ella Grasso: Connecticut woman became the first female to be elected governor of a US state without succeeding her husband (1974); Shirley Chisolm, the first black woman representative, was elected to Congress (1968)
  • Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity (2006)
Birthdays
  • Eugene Victor Debs 1855
  • Will Durant 1885
  • Alfred Neale 1891
  • Raymond Loewy 1893
  • Joel McCrea 1905
  • Natalie Schafer 1912
  • Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1912
  • Vivien Leigh 1913
  • John McGiver 1913
  • Myron Floren 1918
  • Ike Turner 1931
  • Billy Sherrill 1936
  • Chris Robinson 1938
  • Elke Sommer 1940
  • Art Garfunkel 1941
  • Sam Shepard 1943
  • Gram Parsons (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers) 1946
  • Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits) 1947
  • Armin Shimermin 1949
  • Bill Walton 1952
  • Jon-Erik Hexum 1958
  • Robert Patrick 1958
  • Bryan Adams 1959
  • Tatum O'Neal 1963
  • Andrea McArdle 1963
  • Famke Janssen 1964
  • Angelo Moore (Fishbone) 1965
  • Mark Hunter (James) 1968
  • Corin Nemec 1971
  • Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) 1971
  • Ryan Adams (Whiskeytown) 1974
  • Heather Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
  • Jennifer Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
  • Jeremy Lelliott 1982

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