Saturday, February 28, 2015

Saturday, February 28, 2015

pedant \PED-nt\, noun:
  • a person who makes a show of detailed knowledge, esp. relying on books; also, a narrow-minded teacher or scholar
c 1586, "schoolmaster," from Middle French pédant, from Italian pedante "teacher, schoolmaster," apparently an alteration of Late Latin paedagogantem, from paedagogare. Meaning "person who trumpets minor points of learning" first recorded 1593.
Marty McFly Complex
  • A character flaw of pride, in which a individual will take unnecessary risks or do dangerous acts if their courage is questioned, such as being called a chicken or a coward.
  • Marty McFly in Back To The Future
  • Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause
Jim said that he won't enter the race because he was afraid of getting hurt, but then Tim called him a coward and he had to prove him wrong because of his Marty McFly Complex


History
  • Methodism: Anglican clergyman and evangelist John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church (1784)
  • Shanghai Communiqué: US President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued a document advancing normalization between the two countries (1972)
  • M*A*S*H: the final episode — "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" — aired; it was the top-rated TV episode in the US (1983)
  • Olof Palme: the Swedish prime minister and his wife were shot in Stockholm; he was killed, she survived (1986)
  • Waco siege: 51-day standoff began with a gun battle between federal agents and members of the cloistered Branch Davidian sect; the agents were attempting to arrest leader David Koresh on a weapons charge (1993)
Birthdays
  • Mary Lyon 1797 - Educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College)
  • Sir John Tenniel 1820 - Cartoonist, illustrator
  • Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) 1824 - Acrobat, aerialist, first to walk across Niagra Falls on a tightrope.
  • Ben Hecht 1894 - Novelist, scriptwriter, playwright
  • Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962
  • Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) 1903 - Director, Liza Minelli's father
  • Earl Scheib 1907
  • Milton Caniff 1907 - Cartoonist
  • Billie Bird 1908
  • Zero (Samuel) Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel) 1915 - Actor
  • Lee Castle 1915 - Musician, bandleader (Jimmy Dorsey's band)
  • Alf Kjellin 1920 - Actor, director
  • Charles Durning 1923 - Actor ("Spy Hard", "Dick Tracy", "The Hindenburg")
  • Chris Kraft 1924 - NASA flight director and voice of Mission Control for all Mercury and many Gemini missions
  • Svetlana Allilueva 1926 - Author, daughter of Russian leader Joseph Stalin
  • Stanley Baker 1927 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone")
  • Frank Malzone 1930 - Baseball player
  • Gavin MacLeod 1931 - Actor ("Love Boat", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
  • Don Francks 1932 - Actor
  • Tommy Tune 1939 - Dancer, actor, choreographer
  • Mario Andretti 1940 - Auto racer, twin of Aldo Andretti
  • Aldo Andretti 1940 - Twin of Mario Andretti
  • Joe South 1940 - Songwriter, singer
  • Frank Bonner 1942 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
  • Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) 1942 - Musician (The Rolling Stones)
  • Poul Popiel 1943
  • imagebam.comDonnie Iris 1943
  • Barbara Acklin 1944
  • Kelly Bishop 1944 - Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
  • Bubba Smith 1945 - Football player
  • Stephanie Beacham 1947 - Actress
  • Marty Perez 1947 - Baseball player
  • Mercedes Ruehl 1948 - Actress ("Last Action Hero", "Married to the Mob")
  • Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) 1948 - Actress ("The Jerk", "Pennies From Heaven"), singer
  • Tom Riker 1950 - Basketball player
  • Roland Harper 1953 - Football player
  • Adrian Dantley 1955 - Basketball player
  • Gilbert Gottfried 1955 - comedian
  • John Turturro 1957 - Actor ("Girl 6", "The Color of Money", "Desperately Seeking Susan")
  • Cindy Wilson 1957 Musician (B-52's)
  • Phil Gould 1957 - Musician (Level 42)
  • Rae Dawn Chong 1961 - Actress
  • Robert Sean Leonard 1969 - Actor ("Manhattan Project", "House")
  • Pat Monahan 1969 - Musician (Train)
  • Maxine Bahns 1971 - Actress
  • Eric Lindros 1973 - Hockey player
  • FeFe Dobson 1985 - Singer
    Ali Larter 1976 - Actress
  • Bobb'e J. Thompson 1996
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