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invidious \in-VID-ee-uhs\, adjective:
- Tending to provoke envy, resentment, or ill will.
- Containing or implying a slight.
- Envious.
Invidious is from Latin invidiosus, "envious, hateful, causing hate or ill-feeling," from invidia, "envy," from invidere, "to look upon with the evil eye, to look maliciously upon, to envy," from in-, "upon" + videre, "to look at, to see."
- The P.C. way to specify the legal union of a man and a woman, as made popular by Miss California at the 2009 Miss USA pageant.
MISS CALIFORNIA: "We live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage"
Holiday
- Earth Day - The one day everyone is supposed to be a little more conscious of treating the planet better.
Pedro Alvares Cabral: landed on the coast of Brazil, claiming the land for Portugal (1500)- Henry VIII: much-married king of England ascended to the throne (1509)
- "In God We Trust": US Congress mandated that all minted coins bear this inscription (1864)
- Oklahoma Land Rush: began officially at noon with thousands of homesteaders staking their claims (1889)
- Earth Day: first observed (1970)
Birthdays- Queen Isabella I (Spain) 1451
- Henry Fielding 1707 - Author ("The History of Tom Jones")
- Immanuel Kant 1724 - Philosopher
- Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) 1870 - Russian premier (1917-1924)
- Nicola Sacco 1891 - Convicted of robbery and executed along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti after a controversial trial in Massachusetts.
- Vladimir Nabokov 1899 - Russian novelist
- J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 - Physicist, designed and built the first atomic bomb
- Eddie Albert (Edward Albert Heimberger) 1908 - Actor ("Green Acres")
Yehudi Menuhin 1916 - Violinist, played with New York Symphony Orchestra at age ten- Robert Wadlow Alton 1918 - At the time of his death on July 15, 1940 he was the tallest man in the world according to Guinness World Records. He was 8 ft 11.1 in.
- Mickey (James Barton) Vernon 1918 - Baseball
- Hal March (Mendelson) 1920 - Television emcee ("The $64,000 Question"), actor ("The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show")
- Candid Camero 1921 - Musician
- Charles Mingus 1922 - Musician
- Richard Diebenkorn 1922 - Musician, singer, bandleader, composer
- Aaron Spelling 1923 - Exectuive producer ("Fantasy Island", "Beverly Hills 90210")
- Bettie Page 1923 - invented sexy
- George Cole 1925 - Actor ("Minder", "Flash Harry")
- Charlotte Rae 1926 - Actress ("Facts of Life")
- Estelle Harris 1932 - Actess ("Seinfeld")
- Mark Damon (Alan Harris) 1933 - Actor ("The Fall of the House of Usher")
- Glen Campbell 1936 - Singer, actor
- Jack Nitzsche 1937 - Arranger, producer, songwriter
- Jack Nicholson (John Joseph) 1937 - Actor ("The Shining", "Batman", "The Witches of Eastwicke", "A Few Good Men")
- Deane Beman 1938 - Golfer
- Jason Miller 1939 - Actor ("Toy Soldiers", "The Exorcist" series)
- Mel Carter 1943 - Singer, actor
Cleve Francis 1945 - Country singer- John Waters 1946 - Director
- Larry Groce 1948 - Singer, songwriter
- Spencer Haywood 1949 - Basketball player
- Peter Frampton 1950 - Musician (Humble Pie)
- Paul Carrack 1951 - Musician (Squeeze, Mike & the Mechanics)
- Tom Lysiak 1953 - Hockey player
- Joseph Bottoms 1954 - Actor ("Surfacing", "Inner Sanctum")
Ryan Stiles 1959 - Actor ("Whose Line is It Anyway")- Byron Allen 1961 - Comedian, television host, actor ("Real People")
- Chris Makepiece 1964 - Actor ("My Bodyguard", "Captive Hearts")
- Jeffrey Dan Morgan 1966 - Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")
- Sheryl Lee 1967 - Actress ("Twin Peaks")
- Sherri Shepherd 1967 - Talk show host, actress
- Heath Wright 1967 - Musician (Ricochet)
- Ingo Rademacher 1971 - Actor ("General Hospital")
- Eric Mabius 1971 - Actor ("Ugly Betty")
- Anna Falchi 1972 - actress, hottie (below)
- Daniel Johns 1979 - Musician (Silverchair)
- Amber Heard 1986 - Actress (right)
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