Saturday, January 17, 2015

Saturday, January 17, 2015

magnanimous \mag-NAN-uh-muhs\, adjective:
  1. noble in mind or soul; free from mean or petty feelings or acts
  2. showing a generous spirit; generous in forgiving
by 1547 from Latin magnanimus "having a great soul," from magnus "great" + animus "soul, spirit." Probably a loan-translation of Greek megalopsychos "high-souled, generous" (Aristotle) or megathymus "great-hearted."
 
neologasm
  • the pleasurable feeling from having coined a new word. Combination of neologism and orgasm.
Her neologasm was so intense she determined to submit a new word every day to the Urban Dictionary.

History
  • Queen Liliuokalani: queen of the Hawaiian Islands was deposed by sugar planters and other annexationists after she tried to return power to the monarchy (1893)
  • Virgin Islands: prompted by fear of German expansion, the US bought the islands from Denmark for $25 million; its inhabitants became US citizens 10 years later (1917)
  • Great Brinks Robbery: 11 men steal over $2 million in Boston in what was then the biggest US robbery; they were eventually caught (1950)
  • Operation Desert Storm: air offensive was launched in the Gulf War to remove the Iraqi army from the Persian Gulf kingdom of Kuwait (local time; in the US it was still the previous day) (1991)
Birthdays 
  • Benjamin Franklin 1706
  • Anton Chekhov 1860
  • David Lloyd George (Britain) 1863
  • Noah Beery 1883
  • Mack Sennet 1884
  • Marjorie Gateson 1891
  • Al Capone 1899
  • Nevil Shute 1899
  • Vido Musso 1913
  • George Handy 1920
  • Betty White 1922
  • Moira Shearer 1926
  • Eartha Kitt 1927
  • Vidal Sassoon 1928
  • Jacques Plante 1929
  • James Earl Jones 1931
  • Sheree North 1933
  • Shari Lewis (Hurwitz) 1934
  • Troy Donahue 1937
  • Maury Povich 1939
  • Muhammad Ali 1942
  • Chris Montez 1944
  • William Hart (Delfonics) 1945
  • Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) 1948 
  • Andy Kaufman 1949
  • Steve Earle 1955
  • Paul Young 1956
  • David Caruso 1956
  • Steve Harvey 1957
  • Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) 1957
  • John Crawford (Berlin) 1960
  • Jim Carrey 1962
  • Shabba Ranks 1966
  • Naveen Andrews 1969 - Actor ("Lost") 
  • Kid Rock 1971
  • Zooey Deschanel 1980
  • Ray J 1981
  • Amanda Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) 1982

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