Saturday, November 14, 2015

quiescent \kwy-ES-uhnt; kwee-\, adjective:

• Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; inactive.

Quiescent derives from the present participle of Latin quiescere, to rest, from quies, rest.

 
Weiner Cousins

• When two men have had sex with the same woman/women, they become weiner cousins. This is a bond that can never be broken.

We're weiner cousins now, that means we're closer than brothers.
 
Trivia

Why did author J. K. Rowling use initials rather than her full name when she launched her Harry Potter series?

• She had been told young boys might object to reading a book written by a woman. So Joanne Rowling—who had no middle name—borrowed the K from her late grandmother Kathleen and became J. K. Rowling.

History

• Moby Dick: the famous Herman Melville novel was published (1851)
• Nellie Bly: New York journalist began her around-the-world-in-72-days trip, beating the time of Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1889)
• Coventry: central England city was largely reduced to rubble by Nazi air raids (1940)
• Apollo 12: second successful manned mission to the moon was launched (1969)
• Sedna: this trans-Neptunian object and very far-away dwarf planet candidate was discovered (2003)

Birthdays

• William III (Britain) 1650
• Robert Fulton 1765
• Claude Monet 1840
• Jawaharlal Nehru 1889
• Aaron Copland 1900
• Dick Powell 1904
• Joseph McCarthy 1909
• Rosemary DeCamp 1910
• Barbara Hutton 1912
• Martha Tilton 1915
• Howard Duff 1917
• Johnny Desmond 1920
• Brian Keith 1921
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922
• Phyllis Avery 1924
• Kathleen Hughes 1928
• McLean Stevenson 1929
• Fred Haise 1933
• Ellis Marsalis 1934
• Don Stewart 1935
• Carey Bell 1936
• Freddie Garrity (Freddie & the Dreamers) 1940
• P.J. O'Rourke 1947
• Buckwheat Zydeco 1947
• James Young (Styx) 1948
• Prince Charles (England) 1948
• Stephen Bishop 1951
• Yanni 1954 - Musician
• D.B. Sweeney 1961
• Laura San Giacomo 1961
• Run (Run D.M.C.) 1964
• Patrick Warburton 1964
• Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads) 1964
• Jeannette Jurado (Expose) 1965
• Butch Walker (Marvelous 3) 1969
• Shyheim 1977
• Olga Kurylenko 1979