Monday, December 8, 2014

baleful \ BEYL-fuhl \ , adjective; 

1. full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious. 
2. Obsolete . wretched; miserable. 

Origin: Baleful stems from the Old English word bealu-full meaning "dire, wicked, cruel." 

academic bulemia

• The process of learning or memorizing by rote, subsequently followed by the regurgitation of that knowledge onto an exam answer sheet. Just as with the serious eating disorder, this form of bulemia results in no real retention of substance. This term is frequently applied to describe a common practice of young medical students.

I can't remember anything that I learned last night. It's like I grabbed the answer sheet, puked out all the answers and forgot everything immediately. I'd say that's academic bulemia.

History

• Immaculate Conception: the belief that the Virgin Mary was born free of sin was defined as a dogma by Pope Pius IX (1854)
• World War II: the day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the US entered into WWII (1941)
• CIS: the Commonwealth of Independent States was established instead of the USSR by Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (1991)
• NAFTA: Canadian-Mexican-US trade pact was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton (1993)

Birthdays

• Horace 65 B.C.
• Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) 1542
• Bjornstjerne Bjornson 1832
• Diego Rivera 1886
• James Thurber 1894
• Lee J. Cobb 1911
• Floyd Tillman 1914
• Sammy Davis, Jr. 1925
• Richard Fleischer 1926
• Maximillian Schell 1930
• Flip Wilson 1933
• David Carradine 1936
• James MacArthur 1937
• Jerry Butler 1939
• James Galway 1939
• Bobby Elliot (The Hollies) 1942
• Jim Morrison (Doors) 1943
• John Rubenstein 1946
• Greg Allman (Allman Brothers) 1947
• Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant) 1949
• Kim Basinger 1953
• Warren Cuccurullo (Duran Duran) 1957
• Phil Collen (Def Leppard) 1957 
• Marty Raybon (The Raybon Brothers) 1959
• Paul Rutherford (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) 1959
• Marty Friedman (Megadeth) 1962
• Malcolm Gets 1963
• Teri Hatcher 1964
• Sinead O'Connor 1966
• Matthew Laborteaux 1966
• Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) 1966
• Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) 1972
• Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) 1973
• Dominic Monaghan (Dominic Bernard Patric Monaghan) 1976 - Actor ("Lost," "Lord of the Rings")
• Ian Somerhalder 1978 - Actor ("Lost," "The Vampire Diaries")