Thursday, August 20, 2015

Thursday, August 20, 2015

perorate \PUR-uh-rayt\, intransitive verb:
  1. To conclude or sum up a long discourse.
  2. To speak or expound at length; to declaim.
Perorate comes from Latin perorare "to speak at length or to the end," from per-, "through, throughout," + orare, "to speak."
 
friendly review 
  • A positive review you give to a movie, book, TV series or CD that you don't like but which a friend has recommended to you, usually because you don't want to hurt their feelings.
Rod: I watched that movie The Departed last night which John lent me. 
Tom: What did you think? 
Rod: I hated it. 
Tom: Oh boy, he loves that movie. What did you tell him? 
Rod: I told him it was great. 
Tom: You gave it a friendly review, huh? 
Rod: Yeah, you know what he’s like.

History
  • 1812 Overture: Tchaikovsky's classic overture debuted in Moscow, commemorating Russia's defense against Napoleon (1880; Gregorian date)
  • RAF: UK prime minister Winston Churchill saluted his country's air force with the statement, ''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" (1940)
  • Economic Opportunity Act 0f 1964: LBJ signed the act — part of his Great Society policies — that would give life to programs like Head Start
  • Prague Spring: brief period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia ended when the country was invaded by Warsaw Pact troops and tanks (1968)
  • Voyager 2: space probe left Earth to tour Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus and Neptune; it continues to transmit data as it leaves the solar system (1977)
Birthdays
  • Bernardo O’Higgins 1778
  • Emily Bronte 1818
  • Benjamin Harrison (U.S.) 1833
  • Edgar Guest 1881
  • H.P. Lovecraft 1890
  • Van Johnson 1916
  • Walter Bernstein 1919
  • Jacqueline Susan 1921
  • Jim Reeves 1924
  • Frank Rosolino 1926
  • Joya Sherrill 1927
  • Don King 1931
  • Frank Capp-Pierce (Capp-Pierce Juggernaut) 1931
  • Ron Paul 1935  - libertarian
  • Justin Tubb 1935
  • Sam Melville 1936
  • Isaac Hayes 1942
  • Rahiv Ghandi (India) 1944
  • Connie Chung 1946
  • Jim Pankow 1947 - Musician (Chicago)
  • Robert Plant 1948 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
  • Phyl Lynott 1951 - Musician (Thin Lizzy)
  • John Hiatt 1952
  • Michael Jeter 1952
  • Doug Fieger 1952 - Musician (The Knack)
  • Rudy Gatlin 1952 - Musician (The Gatlin Brothers)
  • Peter Horton 1953
  • Al Roker 1954 - Telvision personality
  • Quinn Buckner 1954
  • Jay Acovone 1955
  • Joan Allen 1956
  • James Marsters 1962
  • KRS-One 1965
  • Darrell Abbott 1966 - Guitarist (Pantera)
  • Jonathan Ke Quan 1971
  • Amy Adams 1974
  • Monique Powell 1975 - Musician (Save Ferris)
  • Demi Lovato 1992 - Actress and singer


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