Thursday, March 12, 2015

Thursday, March 12, 2015

tetchy \TECH-ee\, adjective: 
  • Peevish; testy; irritable.
Tetchy probably comes from Middle English tecche, "a bad habit," from Old French tache, teche, "a spot, stain, blemish, habit, vice."
 
Social Notworking
  • The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working.
Joe - Hey, Mark is constantly updating his Facebook status, does he not have any work to do?
John - His company obviously doesnt realise how much Social Notworking he is doing!

History
  • Great Blizzard of 1888: nor'easter killed hundreds and paralyzed the East Coast of the US from Maryland to Maine
  • Juliette Gordon Low: founded the Girl Scouts of America (1912)
  • Salt Satyagraha: Mahatma Gandhi began a civil disobedience campaign against the British salt tax in India with a 241-mile march to Dandi (1930)
  • fireside chats: FDR began a series of morale-boosting evening radio addresses to the American public (1933)
  • Anschluss: Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany (1938)
  • Truman Doctrine: US president Harry S Truman announced his policy to assist countries threatened by Communism; the document provided economic assistance to Turkey and Greece (1947)
Birthdays
  • Gustav Robert Kirchoff 1824
  • Clement Studebaker 1831
  • Charles Boycott 1832
  • Jane Delano 1862
  • Gustavo Diaz Orcaz 1911
  • Paul Weston 1912
  • Wally Schirra 1913 - Astronaut
  • Googie Withers 1917
  • Gordon MacRae 1921
  • Jack Kerouac 1922
  • Edward Albee 1928 - Playwright ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf")
  • Al Jarreau 1932 - R&B-jazz singer
  • Andrew Young 1932 - Civil rights leader, politician
  • Barbara Feldon 1933 - Actress ("Get Smart")
  • Lloyd Dobyns 1936
  • Johnny Rutherford 1938
  • Brian O'Hara 1942 - Musician (The Fourmost)
  • Liza Minnelli 1946 - Singer, actress
  • Mitt Romney 1947 - Politician
  • Mark Moseley 1948
  • James Taylor 1948 - Singer, songwriter
  • Mike Gibbins 1949 - Musician (Badfinger)
  • Bill Payne 1949 - Musician (Little Feat)
  • Jon Provost 1950 - Actor ("Lassie")
  • Carl Hiaasen 1953 - Author
  • Ron Jeremy 1953 - The Hedgehog - t3h pr0n
  • Jerry Levine 1957 - Actor
  • Steve Harris 1957 - Musician (Iron Maiden)
  • Marlon Jackson 1957 - Singer (The Jackson Five)
  • Courtney B. Vance 1960 - Actor
  • Titus Welliver 1961
  • Darryl Strawberry 1962 - Baseball player
  • John Andretti 1963
  • Julia Campbell 1963 - Actress
  • Aaron Eckhart 1968 - Actor
  • Graham Coxon 1969 - Musician (Blur)
  • Samm Levine 1982 - Actor


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