Monday, June 08, 2015

Monday, June 8, 2015

tergiversation \tuhr-jiv-uhr-SAY-shuhn\, noun:
  1. The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous.
  2. The act of abandoning a party or cause.
Tergiversation comes from Latin tergiversatus, past participle of tergiversari, "to turn one's back, to shift," from tergum, "back" + versare, frequentative of vertere, "to turn." The verb form is tergiversate.
 
chai anxiety 
  • Feeling overwhelmed by the ridiculous number of options at the coffee shop.
Venti? Double soy-based foam? A shot of what? Yeesh I have chai anxiety -- I need some caffeine!

History
  • Muhammad: the founder of Islam, PBUH, died in Medina, shortly after delivering his Farewell Sermon (632)
  • desegregation: the US Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse black patrons (1953)
  • Scott O'Grady: US Air Force pilot was rescued by Marines; he had avoided capture for six days after being shot down over Bosnia (1995)
  • PHP: scripting language was publicly released by Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf (1995)
Birthdays
  • Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625
  • Robert Schumann 1810
  • Frank Lloyd Wright 1867
  • Francis Crick 1916
  • Robert Preston 1918
  • Alexis Smith 1921
  • George Kirby 1924
  • Barbara Bush 1925 - Wife of President George H.W. Bush
  • Jerry Stiller 1929 - Actor, comedian ("The King of Queens," "Seinfeld")
  • Dana Wytner 1930
  • Joan Rivers 1933 - Television personality
  • Millicent Martin 1934
  • James Darren 1936
  • Bernie Casey 1939
  • Nancy Sinatra 1940 - Singer
  • Chuck Negron 1942 - Musician (Three Dog Night)
  • Willie Davenport 1943
  • Don Grady 1944
  • Boz Scaggs 1944 - Singer
  • Sara Paretsky 1947
  • Mick Box 1947 - Musician (Uriah Heep)
  • Sonia Braga 1950 - Actress
  • Kathy Baker 1950 - Actress
  • Alex Van Halen 1953 - Musician (Van Halen)
  • Tony Rice 1951
  • Bonnie Tyler 1953
  • Griffin Dunne 1955 - Actor, director
  • Russell Christian 1956 - Musician (The Christians)
  • Scott Adams 1957 - Cartoonist (Dilbert)
  • Keenan Ivory Wayans 1958 - Actor, director
  • Mick 'Red' Hucknall 1960 - Musician (Simply Red)
  • Nick Rhodes 1962 - Musician (Duran Duran)
  • Robert Pilatus 1965 - Musician (Milli Vanilli)
  • Doris Pearson 1966 - Musician (Five Star)
  • Dan Futterman 1967 - Actor, screenwriter
  • Julianna Margulies 1967 - Actress ("The Good Wife," "ER")
  • Neil Mitchell 1967 - Musician (Wet Wet Wet)
  • Kelli Williams 1970 - Actress ("The Practice")
  • Nicci Gilbert 1970 - Musician (Brownstone)
  • Mark Feuerstein 1971 - Actor
  • Lindsay Davenport 1976 - Tennis player
  • Kanye Omari West 1977 - Singer, rapper
  • Maria Menounos 1978 - journalist
  • Derek Trucks 1979 - Musician
  • Sara Watkins 1981 - Musician (Nickel Creek)
  • Kim Clijsters 1983 - Tennis player

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