Sunday, Augaust 9, 2015

métier \met-YAY; MET-yay\ , noun:

1. An occupation; a profession.
2. An area in which one excels; an occupation for which one is especially well suited.

Métier is from the French, ultimately from Latin ministerium, "service, ministry, employment," fromminister, "a servant, a subordinate."

 

margraine

• Brain freeze caused from rapidly slurping down a frozen margarita beverage.

My girlfriend gets a wicked margraine when she tries to drink her frozen margarita too fast to get high.

 

History

• Tower of Pisa: construction on the campanile began; it would take 200 years to complete, and the uneven settling of the foundation would cause it to lean (1173)
• Sistine Chapel: the private chapel of the popes was consecrated and its first mass was celebrated (1483)
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty: established much of the border between the US and Canada (1842)
• 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympiad (1936)
• Nagasaki: atom bomb called the Fat Man, dropped by theBockscar, devastated a second Japanese city (1945)
• Singapore: seceded from and became independent of Malaysia (1965)
• Richard M. Nixon: officially left office as America's 37th president and the first one to resign; vice president Gerald Ford became president (1974)

Birthdays

• Isaac Walton 1593
• Jean Piaget 1896
  
• Charles Farrell 1901
• Zino Francescatti 1902
• Roger Shaw 1927
• Merle Kilgore 1934
• Billy Henderson (The Spinners) 1939
• Jack DeJohnette 1942
• David Steinberg 1942
• Sam Elliott 1944
• Ken Norton 1945
• Rinus Gerritsen (Golden Earring) 1946
• Barbara Mason 1947
• Doug Williams 1955
• Benjamin Orr (The Cars) 1955
• Melanie Griffith 1957
• Amanda Bearse 1958
• Kurtis Blow 1959
• Aimee Mann 1960
• Whitney Houston 1963
• Deion Sanders 1967
• Pat Peterson 1968
• Gillian Anderson 1968
• Mack 10 1971
• Liz Vassey 1972
• Arion Salazar (Third Blind Eye) 1972
• Audrey Tautou 1978