Friday, February 19, 2016

TGIF! Friday, February 19, 2016

gastronome \GAS-truh-nohm\, noun:
  • A connoisseur of good food and drink.
Origin: Gastronome is ultimately derived from Greek gaster, "stomach" + nomos, "rule, law."

handcestors
  • all the ancestors never to be born due to male masturbation.
I wiped those handcestors off on a dirty sock.

Trivia

History
  • Treaty of Westminster: ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War; New Amsterdam was subsequently ceded to England (1674)
  • Aaron Burr: the former US vice president was arrested for treason; he was acquitted (1807)
  • Edict of Emancipation: serfs were liberated by Czar Alexander II (1861 OS)
  • internment: FDR signed an order confining thousands of West Coast Japanese-Americans to relocation centers (1942); they were released three years later
  • Iwo Jima: Operation Detachment commenced when US Marines invaded the island.
  • Eastenders: top-rated British soap first aired (1985)
  • Mir: Soviet/Russian space station was launched; it remained in orbit for 15 years and was occupied for 12.5 of those (1986)
  • Fidel Castro: after nearly 50 years in power, Cuba's charismatic president resigned his post; his younger brother Raúl took over (2008)
Birthdays
  • Nicolas Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick) 1473 - Polish astronomer, known for the Copernican theory: the sun is the center of our universe
  • David Garrick 1717 - Actor, playwright
  • Sven Hedin (Sven Anders Hedin) 1865 - Explorer, geographer
  • Sir Cedrick Hardwicke 1893 - Actor ("The Hunchchback of Notre Dame", "The Ten Commandments")
  • Louis Calhern (Carl Henry Vogt) 1895 - Actor ("The Count of Monte Cristo", "Blackboard Jungle")
  • Nydia Westman 1902 - Actress ("Strange Justice", "The Velvet Touch")
  • John Bubbles (John William Sublett) 1902 - Actor ("Porgy and Bess"[1953 on Broadway], "Cabin in the Sky")
  • Susan Fleming 1909 - ("Range Feud")
  • Merle Oberon (Thompson) 1911 - Actress ("Wuthering Heights", "The Oscar")
  • Stan Kenton 1912
  • Dick Siebert (Richard Walther Siebert) 1912 - Baseball player
  • Eddie Arcaro 1916 - Jockey, won two Triple Crowns (1941, 1928)
  • Carson McCullers 1917 - Author ("The Member of the Wedding", "Reflections in a Golden Eye")
  • Lee Marvin 1924 - Actor ("The Caine Mutiny", "The Dirty Dozen", "Delta Force")
  • John Frankenheimer 1930 - Director
  • Russ Nixon 1935 - Baseball player
  • Bob Engemann 1936 - Singer (The Lettermen)
  • Carlin Glynn 1940
  • Smokey Robinson 1940 - Singer (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
  • Bobby Rogers 1940 - Singer (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
  • Paul Krause 1942 - Football player
  • Bob Menne 1942 - Golfer
  • Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco) 1943 - Singer
  • Michael Nader 1945
  • Bruce Fairbairn 1947 - Actor
  • Mark Andes (Spirit) 1948
  • imagebam.comTony Iommi 1948 - Musician (Black Sabbath)
  • Amy Tan 1952 - Author
  • Francis Buchholz 1954 - Musician (Scorpions)
  • Eddie Brown 1952 - Football player
  • Jeff Daniels 1955 - Actor ("The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Terms of Endearment")
  • Ray Winstone 1957 - Actor
  • Peter Holsapple (dB's) 1956
  • Dave Wakeling (English Beat, General Public, Bang!) 1956
  • Lorraine Crook 1957
  • Falco (Johann Holzel) 1957 - Singer
  • Prince Andrew 1960 - British Duke of York
  • Hana Mandlikova 1962 - Tennis player
  • Seal 1963 - Singer (Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel)
  • Justine Bateman 1966 - Actress ("Family Ties")
  • Benicio Del Toro 1967 - Actor
    Burton C. Bell 1969 - Fear Factory
  • Haylie Duff 1985 - Singer, actress ("7th Heaven")
  • Victoria Justice 1993 - Singer, actress



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