Thursday, September 3, 2015

carom \KAIR-uhm\, noun:

1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
3. To strike and rebound; to glance.
4. To make a carom.
5. To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.

Carom derives from obsolete carambole, from Spanish carambola, "a stroke at billiards."
 
latchkey wife 

• Based on the phrase "latchkey kid." A wife who comes home from work to an empty house, left to her own defenses during the evening, while husband works opposite shift.

Because of her time alone, the latchkey wife was free to have complete control over the remote control and the computer with no interruptions!

History

• San Marino: independent country inside Italy — arguably the world's smallest and oldest republic — was founded (301)
• Richard the Lion-Hearted: was crowned king of England after defeating his father, Henry II (1189)
• Treaty of Paris: the US Revolutionary War came to an official end (1783)
• Malcolm Campbell: English racer and journalist became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah (1935)

Birthdays

• Nicolo Amati 1596
  
• Ferdinand Porsche1875
• Alan Ladd 1913
• Tom Glazer 1914
• Kitty Carlisle-Hart 1914
• Helen Wagner 1918
• Mort Walker 1923
• Hank Thompson 1925
  
• Irene Papas 1926
• Bill Fleming 1926
• Anne Jackson 1926
• Hugh Sidney 1927
• Tompall Glaser 1933
• Freddie King (Frederick Christian) 1934 - Guitarist and singer known as "the Texas Cannonball."
• Richard Castellano 1934
• Eileen Brennan 1935
• Pauline Collins 1940
• Al Jardine (Beach Boys) 1942
• Valerie Perrine 1943
• Dave Eichelberger 1943
• Gary Leeds (The Walker Brothers) 1944
• George Biondo (Steppenwolf) 1945
• Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) 1948
• Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) 1955 
• Charlie Sheen 1965 - WINNING!
• Costas Mandylor 1965
• Todd Lewis (The Toadies) 1965
• Jennifer Paige 1973