Saturday, January 02, 2016

Saturday, January 2, 2016

constitutional \kon-stih-TOO-shuhn-uhl; -TYOO-\, noun:
  • A walk taken for one's health.
Origin: A constitutional is so called because it is taken for the benefit of one's constitution.
 
Head Splinter
  • A painfully annoying song that gets stuck in your head, in extreme cases, impeding everyday tasks.
I've got "I don't feel like dancing" stuck in my head, it's a real head splinter!!

History
  • Granada: last Moorish stronghold in Spain, led by Muhammad XI, surrendered to Roman Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I (1492)
  • Vulcan: the "discovery" of a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury was announced by French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier; it proved to be nonexistent (1860)
  • Russo-Japanese War: ended with Russian General Stoessel's letter of surrender to Japan's General Nogi (1905)
  • 55 mph limit: Congress and President Richard Nixon set a national speed limit to conserve gasoline following the 1973 oil crisis (1974)
Birthdays
  • Nathaniel Bacon 1647
  • Philip Freneau 1752
  • Martha Thomas 1857
  • Sally Rand 1904
  • James Melton 1904
  • Sir Michael Tippett 1905
  • Vera Zorina (Eva Hartwig) 1917
  • Isaac Asimov 1920
  • Renata Tebaldi 1922
  • Anna Lee 1923
  • Jason Evers 1927
  • Gino Marchetti 1927
  • Julius LaRosa 1930
  • Roger Miller 1936
  • Jim Bakker 1939
  • Donald B. Keck 1941
  • Christopher Durang 1949
  • Chick Churchill (Ten Years After) 1949
  • Wendy Phillips 1952
  • imagebam.comJoanna Pacula 1957
  • Gabrielle Carteris 1961
  • Todd Haynes 1961
  • Tia Carrere 1967 
  • Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968
  • Christy Turlington 1969
  • Taye Diggs 1971
  • Paz Vega 1976
  • Kate Bosworth 1983




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