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pusillanimous \ pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs \ , adjective;
- lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit.
Origin: Pusillanimous is derived from the Latin words pusillis meaning "small" and animus meaning "spirit." It entered English in the late 1500s.
Short story long
- Something that could have been told in a more concise way but is dragged out because the teller doesn't know how to tell a story. It's a play on the annoying clarifier, "Long story short," people use to sum up a digression, which really never seems to be that short anyway. So instead you say the opposite.
So I was walking into the store the other day, I wanted to get some aspirin because I had this massive headache and I walked down aisle four but they only had Tylenol but that doesn't work and I went to the counter and short story long this guy was holding up the store!
History
- Joseph Rainey: became the first African American to sit in the US House of Representatives (1870)
- The Katzenjammer Kids: oldest comic strip still in syndication debuted (1897)
- Guglielmo Marconi: transmitted the first transatlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland; the feat was unsubstantiated (1901)
- Boys Town: youth center was founded by Father Flanagan (1917)
- Arthur Ashe: became the first African American to be ranked #1 in tennis (1968)
- Keiko: Willy of Free Willy, a killer whale, died of pneumonia in his mid-20s in a Norwegian fjord (2003)
Birthdays
- Gustave Flaubert 1821
- Edvard Munch 1863
- Edward G. Robinson 1893
- Robert Covington 1914
- Frank Sinatra 1915
- Joe Williams 1918
- Bob Barker 1923
- Ed Koch 1924
- Robert N. Noyce 1927
- Connie Francis 1938
- Dionne Warwick 1940
- Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) 1942
- Grover Washington Jr. 1943
- Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers) 1943
- Wings Hauser 1947
- Bill Nighy 1949
- Paul Rodgers (Bad Company) 1949
- Cathy Rigby 1952
- Sheila E. 1957
- Cy Curnin (Fixx) 1957
- Sheree J. Wilson 1958
- Tracy Ann Austin Holt 1962 - Tennis player
- Mädchen Amick 1970
- Jennifer Connelly 1970
- Bobbi Billard 1975 - t3h pr0n
- Mayim Bialik 1975
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