Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:
  • Fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
Triskaidekaphobia is from Greek treiskaideka, triskaideka, thirteen (treis, three + kai, and + deka, ten) + phobos, fear. Some famous triskaidekaphobes:
  • Napoleon
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Mark Twain
  • Richard Wagner
  • Franklin Roosevelt
Facebook crush
  • A crush on a FB friend is characterized by the unexplainable urge to revisit the friend's Photos tab repeatedly and checking to see if other friends have written new messages on their Wall. Usually afflicts users who are only somewhat acquainted.
"I've got a Facebook crush on a guy I was going to rent a room from, but in the end we just friended each other."


Holidays
  • Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
History
  • White House: the cornerstone was laid for the building then known as the Executive Mansion (1792)
  • universal time: the meridian of longitude of Greenwich, England, was established as the basis of calculating the world's time (1884)
  • World Series: Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first baseball championship games (1903)
  • Miracle of the Sun: according to reports, tens of thousands of people saw the sun cast colored lights and spin toward the earth near Fátima, Portugal (1917)
  • Italy: switched sides in WWII and declared war on Nazi Germany (1943)
  • Hosni Mubarak: the Egyptian vice president was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination (1981); he was Egypt's longest-serving president
Birthdays
  • Mary Ludwig 1754
  • Rudolf Virchow 1821
  • Wilbur Shaw 1902
  • Herblock (Herbert Block) 1909
  • Cornel Wilde 1915
  • Burr Tillstrom 1917
  • Laraine Day 1920
  • Yves Montand 1921
  • Lou Saban (NFL) 1921
  • Nipsey Russell 1924
  • Lenny Bruce 1925
  • Frank D. Gilroy 1925
  • Margaret Thatcher (Britain) 1925
  • Eddie Yost (MLB) 1926
  • Shirley Caesar 1928
  • Eddie Mathews (MLB) 1931
  • Cliff Gorman 1936
  • Melinda Dillon 1939
  • Paul Simon 1941
  • Pamela Tiffin 1942
  • Jerry Jones 1943
  • Robert Lamm (The Big Thing, Chicago) 1944
  • Karen Akers 1945
  • Demond Wilson 1946
  • Lacy J. Dalton 1946
  • Sammy Hagar 1947
  • John Lone 1952
  • Beverly Johnson 1952
  • Marie Osmond 1959
  • John Wiggins 1962
  • Jerry Rice (NFL) 1962
  • Kelly Preston 1962
  • T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah 1962
  • Kate Walsh 1967
  • Rhett Akins 1969
  • Nancy Kerrigan 1969
  • Tisha Campbell 1970
  • Sacha Baron Cohen 1971
  • Jan Van Sichem Jr. (K's Choice) 1972
  • Katia Winter 1983
  • Tiffany Trump 1993



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