Saturday, December 12, 2015

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palliate \PAL-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:

1. To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate.
2. To make less severe or intense; mitigate.
3. To relieve the symptoms of a disease or disorder.

Palliate derives from Late Latin palliatus, past participle of palliare, "to cloak, to conceal," from Latin pallium, "cloak."

kings toe

• Kings toe is when the second toe is longer than the (great) or big toe.

Oh! look at his feet, he has the kings toe on both feet.

History

• Joseph Rainey: became the first African American to sit in the US House of Representatives (1870)
• The Katzenjammer Kids: oldest comic strip still in syndication debuted (1897)
• Guglielmo Marconi: transmitted the first transatlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland; the feat was unsubstantiated (1901)
• Boys Town: youth center was founded by Father Flanagan (1917)
• Arthur Ashe: became the first African American to be ranked #1 in tennis (1968)
• Keiko: Willy of Free Willy, a killer whale, died of pneumonia in his mid-20s in a Norwegian fjord (2003)

Birthdays

• Gustave Flaubert 1821
• Edvard Munch 1863
• Edward G. Robinson 1893
• Robert Covington 1914
• Frank Sinatra 1915
• Joe Williams 1918
• Bob Barker 1923
• Ed Koch 1924
• Robert N. Noyce 1927
• Connie Francis 1938
• Dionne Warwick 1940
• Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) 1942
• Grover Washington Jr. 1943
• Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers) 1943
• Wings Hauser 1947
• Bill Nighy 1949
• Paul Rodgers (Bad Company) 1949
• Cathy Rigby 1952
• Sheila E. 1957
• Cy Curnin (Fixx) 1957
• Sheree J. Wilson 1958
• Tracy Ann Austin Holt 1962 - Tennis player
• Mädchen Amick 1970
• Jennifer Connelly 1970
• Bobbi Billard 1975 - t3h pr0n
• Mayim Bialik 1975