Sunday, April 5, 2015

grandiloquent \gran-DIL-uh-kwuhnt\, adjective:

• Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic.

Grandiloquent comes from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis, "grand" + loqui, "to speak." The noun form is grandiloquence.

 

average

1. adj. to describe anything that while it functions to its minimal specification, it still sucks
2. adj. bad
3. n. one who is not good

1. Man, my new computer is average.

2. That was a pretty average performance by my local sports team.

3. You are an average.

Holiday

• Easter: Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament

History

• Pocahontas: Algonquian princess married English colonist John Rolfe, a tobacco planter (1614)
• veto: was used by a US president for 1st time — by George Washington; it was another half century before Congress first overrode a presidential veto (1792)
• manual alphabet: Anne Sullivan breaks through to Helen Keller when she spells "water" into her hand (1887)
• Akashi Kaikyō Bridge: Japanese "Pearl Bridge" opened; it links Kobe to Awaji Island and, at 1,991 meters or 6,532 feet, is the world's longest suspension bridge (1998)

Birthdays 

• Thomas Hobbes 1588
• Elihu Yale 1649
• Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash)
• Robert Smalls 1839
• Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery)

  
• Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy 1900 - Actor ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]")
• Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) 1901 - Actor ("Ghost Story", "Being There")
• Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis 1908 - Actress ("Dangerous", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?")
• Jagjivan Ram 1908 - Political leader in India
• Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower")
• Arthur Hailey 1920 - Author (Airport, The Final Diagnosis)
• Robert Q. Lewis 1921 - Comedian, TV quiz show panelist ("What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth")
• Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle) 1922 - Singer ("Ivory Tower"), actress ("My Little Margie")
• Stan Levey 1925 - Drummer (in band with Charlie Parker), composer
• Roger Corman 1926 - Director
• Tony Williams 1928 - Singer (Platters)
• Nigel Hawthorne 1929 - Actor ("Richard III", "Demolition")
• Cowboy Jack Clement 1931
• Billy Bland 1932 - Singer
• Frank Gorshin 1934 - Impressionist, actor ("Batman", "The Great Imposter")

  
• Stanley Turrentine 1934 - Saxophone player
• Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Ronnie White - Singer (The Miracles)
• Tommy Cash 1940 - Songwriter, country singer, brother of Johnny Cash
• David LaFlamme 1941
• Michael Moriarty 1941 - Actor ("Windmills of the Gods")
• Peter Greenaway 1942 - Director, writer
• Allan Clark 1942 - Singer (The Hollies)
• Maxwell Gail 1943 - Actor ("Barney Miller")
• Crispin St. Peters 1944
• Dave Holland 1944 - Musician (Judas Priest)
• Doug Favell 1945 - Hockey player
• Jane Asher 1946 - Actress
• Dr. Judith A. Resnik 1949 - Electric engineer, astronaut
• Agnetha Faltskog 1950 - Singer (ABBA)
• Marv Bateman 1950 - Football player
• Rennie (Renaldo Antonio Porte) Stennett 1951 - Baseball player
• Brad Van Pelt 1951 - Football player
• Mitch Pileggi 1952 - actor, The X-Files
• Peter Greenway 1952
• Peter Case 1954 - Musician (Plimsouls)
• Stan Ridgeway 1954 - Musician (Wall of Voodoo)
• Mike McCready 1966 - Musician (Pearl Jam)
• Troy Gentry 1967 - Country singer
• Paula Cole 1968 - Singer
• Krista Allen 1971 - hottie
• Pharrel Williams 1973 - Rapper