Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

truckle \TRUHK-uhl\, intransitive verb:
  1. To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to act in a subservient manner.
  2. A small wheel or roller; a caster.
Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed (a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed), in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master. The ultimate source of the word is Greek trokhos, "a wheel."
manther 
  • The male version of a cougar; an older man who preys on younger women.
"Mr. Smith is such a manther, did you see his new girlfriend? She's got to be less than a quarter of his age. Awesome."
"That Smith geezer was hitting on my granddaughter at the banquet. What a hideous manther."


History

  • New Orleans: was founded by French colonists (1718)
  • Great Moon Hoax: the first of six articles appeared in The New York Sun, discussing a variety of animal life supposedly discovered on the moon (1835)
  • English Channel: was swum for the first time, by Matthew Webb (1875); he died eight years later attempting a swim in the rapids beneath Niagara Falls
  • Paris: was liberated by the Allies in World War II (1944)
  • Aaliyah: singer/actor died in a plane crash in the Bahamas (2001)
Birthdays
  • Allen Pinkerton 1819
  • Bret Harte 1836
  • Emile Kocher 1841
  • Charles Richet 1850
  • Sir Hans Adolf Krebs 1900
  • Clara Bow 1905
  • Ruby Keeler 1909
  • Michael Rennie 1909
  • Walt Kelly 1913
  • Van Johnson 1916
  • Frederick Robbins 1916
  • Mel Ferrer 1917
  • Dan DeFore 1917
  • Richard Greene 1918
  • Leonard Bernstein 1918
  • George C. Wallace 1919
  • Monty Hall 1923
  • Althea Gibson 1927
  • Sean Connery 1930
  • Page Johnson 1930
  • Regis Philbin 1931
  • Tom Skerritt 1933
  • Wayne Shorter 1933
  • Hugh Hudson 1936
  • David Canary 1938
  • Marshall Brickman 1941
  • Walter Williams (The O'Jays) 1942
  • Anthony Heald 1944
  • Jacques Demers 1944
  • Rollie Fingers 1946
  • Anne Archer 1947
  • John Savage 1949
  • Gene Simmons 1949 - Musician (KISS)
  • Henry Paul (Blackhawk) 1949
  • Rob Halford 1951 - Singer (Judas Priest)
  • Elvis Costello 1954
  • Tim Burton 1958
  • Ally Walker 1961
  • Billy Ray Cyrus 1961
  • Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard) 1962
  • Morgan Englund 1964
  • Blair Underwood 1964
  • Joanne Whalley-Kilmer 1964
  • Albert Belle 1966
  • Terminator X (Public Enemy) 1966
  • Robert Horry 1969
  • Jo Dee Messina 1969
  • Claudia Schiffer 1971
  • Kel Mitchell 1978
  • Rachel Bilson 1981
  • Blake Lively 1986

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