pabulum \ PAB-yuh-luhm \ , noun;
- material for intellectual nourishment.
- something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- pablum.
Origin: Pabulum is derived from the Latin verb pāscere meaning "to feed." The suffix -bulum is used in formation of instrumental nouns. Pabulum entered English in the mid-1600s.
vacation amnesia
- When you come back to school or work from your vacation and you can't remember what you did before your vacation.
Andy suffered from a bad case of vacation amnesia when he went back to school and couldn't remember what he had been learning before.
History
- minimum wage: Henry Ford instituted the first minimum wage; he paid his employees at least $5 a day (1914)
- Fair Deal: newly reelected president Harry S. Truman coined the phrase to refer to a 21-point program he sent to Congress in 1945, focusing on civil rights and social welfare (1949)
- Prague Spring: a brief period of reform began in Czechoslovakia; it ended later in the year with a Soviet invasion (1968)
- Eris: largest dwarf planet was discovered (2005)
- Stephen Decatur 1779
- Edmund Ruffin 1794
- Jeannette Piccard 1895
- George Reeves 1914
- Al Blozis 1919
- Erica Morini 1919
- Jean-Pierre Aumont 1911
- Sam Phillips 1920
- Buddy Young 1926
- W.D. Snodgrass 1926
- Fred Glover 1928
- Walter 'Fritz' Mondale 1928
- Robert Duvall 1930
- Alvin Ailey 1931
- Chuck Noll 1932
- Johnny Adams 1932
- Francois d'Aulan 1932
- Earl Battey 1935
- Lindsay Crosby 1938
- Chuck McKinley 1941
- Wayne Rutledge 1942
- Sam Wyche 1945
- Diane Keaton 1946
- Ted Lange 1947
- George "Funky" Brown (Kool and the Gang) 1949
- Chris Stein (Blondie) 1950
- Pamela Sue Martin 1953
- Clancy Brown 1959
- Suzy Amis 1961
- Iris Dement 1961
- Jeff Fassero 1963
- Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) 1967
- Joe Juneau 1968
- Marilyn Manson 1970
- Kylie Bax 1975
- January Jones 1978
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