Saturday, September 26, 2015

shibboleth \SHIB-uh-lith, -leth\ noun 

1. a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons. 
2. a slogan; catchword. 

Origin: Shibboleth entered English from the Hebrew and was a word used by the Gileadites as a test to detect the fleeing Ephraimites, who could not pronounce the sh sound. 

Media Shower

• When a celebrity or a new person gets WAY too much spotlight. This can cause a snobbish side to surface, and their friends or aquaintances to notice them acting differently. Otherwise, this causes the "showered" person to feel shy or be surrounded by people by simply going outside their house, making them annoyed.

After Jack's new speech on world matters, he got a media shower and became a different person; one his friends didn't know anymore.

Once Beth won the spelling bee, her media shower forced her to skip school for the next week.

History

• Sir Francis Drake: arrived in Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind, completing his circumnavigation of the globe (1580)
• Thomas Jefferson: was named America's first secretary of state; John Jay was the first chief justice (1789)
• Federal Trade Commission: agency whose aim is to protect consumers and guard against harmful business practices was founded (1914)
• Abbey Road: the last Beatles album to be recorded was released in the UK (1969); Let It Be was the last of the Fab Four's albums to be released (1970)
• Biosphere 2: eight people, four men and four women, entered a sealed complex in Oracle, Arizona, for an experiment in self-sustained living; they exited two hungry years later on the same date (1991)

Birthdays

• John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) 1774
• T.S. Eliot 1888
• George Raft 1895
• George Gershwin 1898
• Ted Weems 1901

• Jack LaLanne 1914
• Barbara Britton 1919
• Bobby Shantz 1925
• Marty Robbins 1925
• Julie London 1926
• Patrick O'Neal 1927
• Philip Bosco 1930
• Joyce Jameson 1932
• Winnie Mandela 1934
• Donna Douglas 1939
• George Chambers (The Chambers Brothers) 1931
• David Frizzell 1941
• Joe Bauer (The Youngbloods) 1941
• Kent McCord 1942
• Anne Robinson 1944
• Bryan Ferry 1945
• Christine Todd Whitman 1946
• Lynn Anderson 1947
• Mary Beth Hurt 1948
• Olivia Newton-John 1948
• James Keane 1952
• Gary Howatt 1952
• Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos) 1954
• Craig Chaquico (Jefferson Starship) 1954
• Carlene Carter 1955
• Linda Hamilton 1956
• Doug Supernaw 1960
• Tracy Thorn 1962
• Patrick Bristow 1962
• Melissa Sue Anderson 1962
• Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) 1962
• Cindy Herron (En Vogue) 1965
• David Schelzel (Ocean Blue) 1967
• Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) 1967
• Jim Caviezel 1968
• Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men) 1972
• Nicholas Payton 1973
• Mark Famiglietti 1979
• Serena Williams 1981
• Shamu 1985