Thursday, November 26, 2015

Thursday, November 26, 2015

echt (ekht) adjective
  • Authentic; typical.
Origin: From German echt (genuine, typical)

Thanksgiving
  • Another excuse for Americans to spend an entire day eating
"Damn, it's not a weekend, and i want to eat all day"
"Why Don't we invent a holiday and give it a stupid name?"
"Fo Shizzle, My Pilgrizzle!"

Holiday 
  • Thanksgiving - national holiday in the United States commemorating the Pilgrims' celebration of the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation and privation. The celebration was probably held in October. The neighboring Wampanoags, who outnumbered the colonists, joined them for three days and contributed food to the celebration. The first proclaimed day of thanksgiving in the colony was not held until 1623 (probably at the end of July), following an improvement in prospects for the still struggling colony, and was a day of prayer, not feasting. Fourth Thursday in November.
History
  • Kappa Alpha Society: Union College student society became the first college fraternity in the US (1825)
  • Alice in Wonderland: pseudonymous author Lewis Carroll gave an illustrated manuscript of the tale to the eponymous Alice as an early Christmas gift (1864)
  • King Tut: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were the first to enter the tomb of the boy king since it was sealed in 1323 B.C.E. (1922)
  • Casablanca: film set in wartime Morocco premiered in New York City (1942)
  • The Price is Right: TV's longest running daily game show debuted (1956)
  • Diamant-A: rocket launched France's space program with the Astérix-1 satellite, which blasted off from Hammaguir, Algeria (1965)
Birthdays
  • Eric Severeid 1912
  • Eugene Ionesco 1912
  • Charles M. Schulz 1922
  • Robert Goulet 1933
  • Marian Mercer 1935
  • Rich Little 1938
  • Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) 1938
  • Jean Terrell 1944
  • John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) 1945
  • Art Shell 1946
  • Scott Jacoby 1955
  • Jamie Rose 1959
  • Linda Davis 1962
  • Steve Grisaffe (Road River) 1965
  • Garcelle Beauvais 1966
  • Lorissa McComas 1970
  • Maia Campbell 1976
  • Peter Facinelli 1973 - Actor ("Twilight")
  • Aurora Snow - 1981 t3h pr0n
  • Natasha Bedingfield - 1981



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