Sunday, December 27, 2015

Sunday, December 27, 2015

valediction \val-i-DIK-shuh n\ noun 
  1. an act of bidding farewell or taking leave. 
  2. an utterance, oration, or the like, given in bidding farewell or taking leave; valedictory.
Origin: Valediction can be traced to the Latin terms vale meaning "farewell" and dīcere, "to say." It entered English in the early 1600s.

ugly sleep 
  • Acquired during the deepest stages of a much-needed restful night; when you're so sleep, you sleep through alarms, often with mouth ajar, face planted against the sheets. 
I tried to wake you up in time for the bus but you were in a deep ugly sleep. I couldn't bring myself to interrupt


History
  • anesthesia: was first used for childbirth (1845)
  • Peter Pan: play by J.M. Barrie debuted in London (1904)
  • Carry Nation: hatchet-wielding temperance activist smashed her first saloon (1900)
  • Radio City Music Hall: world's largest indoor theater staged its first show (1932)
  • World Bank: was formed to fund postwar reconstruction in Europe; later, the focus turned to developing third-world countries (1945)
  • Afghanistan: was seized by Soviet forces; president Hafizullah Amin, was overthrown, executed and replaced with Soviet-supported Babrak Karmal (1979)
  • Free Aceh Movement: Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disbanded their military wing, ending a 30-year armed struggle for independence, in accordance with a peace deal that came out of the 2004 tsunami (2005)
Birthdays
  • Johannes Kepler 1571
  • George Cayley 1773
  • Louis Pasteur 1822
  • Sydney Greenstreet 1879
  • Marlene Dietrich 1901
  • Anna Russell 1911
  • William H. Masters 1915
  • Oscar Levant 1916
  • Scotty Moore 1931
  • Walter Norris 1931
  • Lee Salk 1926
  • Inga Swenson 1932
  • Dave Marr 1933
  • Bernard Lanvin 1935
  • John Amos 1941
  • Leslie Maguire (Gerry and The Pacemakers) 1941
  • Pete Quaife (Kinks) 1943
  • Cokie Roberts 1943
  • Tracy Nelson 1944
  • Mickey Redmond 1947
  • Mick Jones (Foreigner) 1947
  • Gerard Depardieu 1948
  • Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons) 1950
  • Karla Bonoff 1952
  • Tovah Feldshuh 1952
  • David Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1952
  • Arthur Kent 1953
  • John Watts (Fischer-Z) 1954
  • Maryam D'Abo 1960
  • Youth (Killing Joke) 1961
  • Jeff Bryant (Ricochet) 1962
  • Eva La Rue 1966
  • Joan Marie "Chyna" Laurer 1969
  • Matt Slocum (Six Pence None The Richer) 1972
  • Wilson Cruz 1973
  • Olu 1973
  • Emilie de Ravin - Actress ("Roswell", "Lost")


 

 

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