Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Wednesday, Jaunary 28, 2015

yielding \YEEL-ding\, adjective:
  1. not resisting; compliant
  2. not stiff or rigid; easily bent or shaped
by 1340 from yield, Old English geldan/gieldan "to pay," from Proto Germanic *geldanan "pay," perhaps from Proto Indo-European *ghel-to- "I pay," found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic. Yielding in sense of "giving up" is c 1425 and "giving way" is by 1588.

Daylate savings time
  • When you set your clocks ahead ten minutes to trick yourself into being early for things.
All the clocks in our house observe daylate savings time so that we are not tardy for school.

History 

  • Diet of Worms: general assembly of the Holy Roman Empire began; it ended four months later with Martin Luther being declared an outlaw (1521)
  • serendipity: word was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann (1754)
  • Carnegie Institute: Andrew Carnegie established this private scientific research foundation after the US government refused his gift of $10 million to finance the advancement of knowledge (1902)
  • "We Are the World": Michael Jackson/Lionel Richie song that raised millions for famine relief in Africa was recorded by 45 popular performers (1985)
  • Element 114: scientists announced the creation of the synthetic radioactive chemical element (1999)
Birthdays
  • Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841
  • Jose Marti 1853
  • William Seward Burroughs 1857
  • Artur Rubinstein 1889
  • Jackson Pollock 1912
  • Jim Bryan 1927
  • Acker Bilk 1927
  • Ronnie Scott 1927
  • Acker (Bernard) Bilk 1929
  • Susan Sontag 1933
  • Nicholas Pryor 1935
  • Alan Alda 1936
  • Bill Phillips 1938
  • John Beck 1943
  • Susan Howard 1943
  • Dick Taylor (The Pretty Things) 1943
  • Brian Keenan 1944
  • Marthe Keller 1945
  • Barbi Benton 1950
  • Dave Sharp (The Alarm) 1959
  • Sam Phillips 1962
  • Dan Spitz 1964 (Anthrax)
  • Greg Cook (Ricochet) 1965
  • Rakim 1968
  • Sara McLachlan 1968
  • DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) 1968
  • Katherine Morris 1969
  • Joey Fatone Jr. ('N Sync) 1977
  • Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) 1980
  • Elijah Wood 1981





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