unconscionable \uhn-KON-shuh-nuh-buhl\, adjective:
- not influenced or guided by conscience
- very great
by 1570, "showing no regard for conscience," from un- (1) + now rare conscionable "conscientious" (1549), from conscioned "having a conscience."
Baby Goggles
- A phenomenon where the parents of an ugly baby think their baby is adorable and no one else does.
Nancy: Here's our little bundle of joy! Isn't she just the cutest thing ever?!?
Lisa & Kate (after one look at Nancy's ugly baby): Ohhhh...! Yessss....
Lisa to Kate: I think Nancy has baby goggles - that's got to be the ugliest baby I've ever seen!
History
- Anne Boleyn: already pregnant, the lady-in-waiting was wed in secrecy to King Henry VIII of England (1533)
- Nellie Bly: circumnavigated the globe in 72 days, besting Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1890)
- Winter Olympics: were played for the first time in Chamonix, France in the 1st Olympic Winter Games (1924)
- Emmys: the first awards for excellence in TV were presented for local Los Angeles productions; Shirley Dinsdale was the first winner (1949)
- jet age: American Airlines ran its first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707 (1959)
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OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb: discovery of an extrasolar planet was announced; it orbits the star OGLE-2005-BLG-390L and lies near the center of the Milky Way (2006)
Birthdays
- Robert Burns 1759
- W. Somerset Maugham 1874
- Ernst F. W. Alexanderson 1878
- Virginia Woolf 1882
- Earnie Halwell 1918
- Edwin Newman 1919
- Barbara Carroll 1925
- Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia) 1928
- Dean Jones 1931
- Corazon Aquino 1933
- Diana Hyland (Gentner) 1936
- Etta James 1938
- Leigh Taylor-Young 1944
- Richard Finch (KC and the Sunshine) 1954
- Jennifer Lewis 1957
- Dinah Manoff 1958
- Andy Cox (Fine Young Cannibals) 1960
- Mike Burch (River Road) 1966
- Kina Cosper (Brownstone) 1969
- China Kantner 1971
- Mia Kirshner 1975
- Alicia Keys 1981
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