Monday, February 8, 2016

approbation \ap-ruh-BAY-shuhn\, noun: 

1. The act of approving; formal or official approval. 
2. Praise; commendation. 

Origin: Approbation is from Latin approbatio, from approbare, "to approve or cause to be approved," from ap- (for ad-), used intensively + probare, "to make or find good," from probus, "good, excellent, fine."  

mondaze 

• a daze you find yourself in due to it being Monday 

I locked my keys in my car because I was in a total Mondaze. I hate the start of a new work week.

Holidays

• Lunar New Year: aka Chinese New Year —the second new moon after the winter solstice — Year of the MONKEY.

History

• Mary, Queen of Scots: was beheaded after being implicated in the Babington plot against Elizabeth I (1587)
• The Devil's Footprints: 100 miles of hooflike prints appeared in the snow in Devon, England (1855)
• Russo-Japanese War: began with a surprise attack by Japan on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur (now Lüshun) (1904)
• The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith's controversial epic premiered in Los Angeles (1915)

Birthdays

• William Tecumsen Sherman 1820 - Union General during U.S. Civil War
• Jules Verne 1828
• Dame Edith Evans 1888
• Lyle Talbot 1902
• Chester F. Carlson 1906
• Buddy Morrow 1919
• Lana Turner 1921
• Audrey Meadows 1924
• Jack Lemmon 1925
• Alejandro Rey 1930
• James Dean 1931
• John Williams 1932 - Composer (Star Wars)
• Larry Verne 1936
• Ray Sharpe 1938
• Ted Koppel 1940
• Brian Bennett 1940 - Musician (The Shadows)
• Nick Nolte 1941
• Robert Klein 1942
• Creed Bratton 1943 - Musician (The Grass Roots)
• Bunky Henry 1944
• Dan Seals 1948
• Ron Tyson 1948 - Singer (The Temptations)
• Brooke Adams 1949
• Mary Steenburgen 1953
• John Grisham 1955
• Vince Neil 1961 Musician/Singer (Motley Crue)
• Sammy Llanas 1961 - Musician (The BoDeans)
• Gary Coleman 1968
• Mary McCormack 1969
• Seth Green 1974
• Abi Titmuss 1976 (actress / model)