valediction
\val-i-DIK-shuh n\
noun
- an act of bidding farewell or taking leave.
- 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)
- 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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