Monday, December 21, 2015

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dolorous \DOH-luh-ruhs\, adjective:

• Marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.

Dolorous derives from Latin dolor, "pain, grief, sorrow," from dolere, "to suffer pain, to grieve."

Gift Parasite

• A person who adds their name to a gift tag in order to claim partial credit for giving the gift.

I'm totally broke so I had to be a gift parasite and sign on that present you're giving Grandma.

History

• Pilgrims: arrived in the New World, seeking religious freedom; they went ashore near Plymouth Rock, having traveled west after their initial settlement in Leiden, Holland, became unsustainable (1620)
• radium: radioactive element was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie (1898)
• crossword puzzle: Liverpudlian journalist Arthur Wynne published the first "word-cross" puzzle, in The New York World (1913)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: film version premiered in Hollywood (1937)
• Pan Am Flight 103: went down over Lockerbie, Scotland, after a terrorist bomb exploded aboard, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground (1988)

Birthdays

• Jean Baptiste Racine 1639
• Benjamin Disraeli 1804
• Henrietta Szold 1860

• Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili) 1879 (Obama's Idol)
• Walter Hagen 1892
• Pat Weaver 1908
• Andor Foldes 1913
• Heinrich Böll 1917
• Kurt Waldheim 1918
• Alicia Alonso 1921
• Paul Winchell 1922
• Phyliss Love 1925
• Ed Nelson 1928
• Freddie Hart 1933
• Phil Donahue 1935
• John Avildsen 1935
• Jane Fonda 1937
• Frank Zappa 1940
• Ray Hildebrand 1940
• Carla Thomas 1942
• Albert Lee 1943
• Gwen McCrae 1943
• Jared Martin 1943
• Michael Tilson Thomas 1944
• Gordon Kannegiesser 1945
• Josh Mostel 1946
• Carl Wilson (The Beach Boys) 1946
• Nate Wright 1947
• Elliott Maddox 1947

• Samuel L. Jackson 1948
• Claude Chartre 1949
• Betty Wright 1953
• Chris Evert 1954
• Jane Kaczmarek 1955
• Jim Rose 1956
• Lee Roy Parnell 1956
• Ray Romano 1957
• Florence Griffith Joyner 1959
• Christy Forester (The Forester Sisters) 1962

• Andy Dick 1965
• Gabrielle Glaser (Luscious Jackson) 1965
• Kiefer Sutherland 1966
• Khrystyne Haje 1968
• Brad Warren (The Warren Brothers) 1968
• Julie Delpy 1969
• Brett Scallions (Fuel) 1971  
• Wendy "Four" "Fiore" Combattante 1983
• Steven Yeun (TWD) 1983
• Kaitlyn Dever 1996