Sunday, January 11, 2015

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gargantuan \gahr-GAN-choo-uhn\, adjective:

• enormous; gigantic; huge

by 1571, from Gargantua, large-mouthed giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Spanish/Portuguese garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle.

ex-hole

• your asshole ex-husband, ex-boyfriend or just plain ex. a phrase used to refer to that person you used to date that you can't stand.

"Yeah, my ex-hole wants to get back together, but there is no possible way."

History

• Amelia Earhart: became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific from Hawaii to California (1935)
• cigarette smoking: US Surgeon General Luther Terry first reported the health hazards involved (1964)
• designated hitter: the American League's team owners voted to allow the use of a different player to bat instead of the pitcher; the National League still bans the practice (1973)
• Rosenkowitz sextuplets: the world's first surviving sextuplets were born in Cape Town (1974)

Birthdays

• Alexander Hamilton 1755 - United States Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• Ezra Cornell 1807
• John A. MacDonald (Canada) 1815
• Eugenio De Hostos 1839
• Henry Gordon Selfridge 1864
• Alice Paul 1885
• Monte Blue 1890
  

  
• Alan Paton 1903
• Carroll Shelby 1923
• Don Cherry 1924
• Slim Harpo (James Moore) 1924
• Grant Tinker 1926
• Rod Taylor 1930
• Jack Nimitz 1930
• Goldie Hill 1933
• Mitchell Ryan 1934
• John Chretien (Canada) 1934
• Clarence Clemons (E Street Band) 1942
• Jim Hightower 1943
• Kristine Kaufmann 1945
  Tony Kaye (born Anthony John Selvidge) YES 1946 
• Naomi Judd (The Judds) 1946
• Anna Calder-Marshall 1947
• Dennis (Frederick) Greene (Sha-Na-Na) 1949
• Ben Crenshaw 1952
• John Sessions 1953
• Robert Earl Keen 1956
• Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) 1958
• Kim Coles 1963
• Jason Connery 1963
  Tom Dumont 1968 (No Doubt)
• Maxee Maxwell (Brownstone) 1969
• Mary J. Blige 1971
• Tom Rowlands (The Chemical Brothers) 1971
• Amanda Peet 1972