Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

cacophony \kuh-KAH-fuh-nee\, noun:
  1. Harsh or discordant sound; dissonance.
  2. The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition.
Cacophony comes from Greek kakophonia, from kakophonos, from kakos, "bad" + phone, "sound." The adjective form is cacophonous. The opposite of cacophony is euphony.
 
Myth-information
  1. To intentionally misinform using myths and other popular misconceptions.
  2. Widely held and promoted but false information that has taken on a mythic quality. Misinformation.
Health Care Reform is being shot down by myth-information.Creationism is myth-information rather than science.
9-11 conspiracy theories are based on myth-information.

History
  • Stamp Act: tax was imposed by Britain on the American colonies; it raised intense opposition (1765)
  • hockey: the first Stanley Cup championship game was played; Montreal's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals, 3-1 (1894)
  • motion pictures: August and Louis Lumière demonstrated the first movies using celluloid film in Paris (1895)
  • Equal Rights Amendment: was approved by US Congress; it was never ratified by requisite majority of states (1972)
  • Flying Wallendas: patriarch Karl Wallenda fell to his death from a tightrope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1978)
  • Hale-Bopp: comet passed the closest to Earth till the year 4397 at a distance of 1.315 AU (1997)
Birthdays
  • Sir Anthony Van Dyke 1599
  • Johnny Evers 1883 - Baseball player
  • Chico Marx 1887
  • Louis L'Amour 1908 - Author
  • Wilfrid Brambell 1912
  • Karl Malden 1913 - Actor
  • Virginia Grey 1917
  • Ross Martin 1920
  • Werner Klemperer 1920
  • Marcel Marceau 1923 - Pantomimist
  • Bill Wendell 1924
  • Allen H. Neuharth 1924 - Founder of USA Today
  • Easy Ed Macauley 1928
  • Pat Robertson 1930
  • Stephen Sondheim 1930 - Composer, lyricist
  • William Shatner 1931 - Actor
  • May Britt 1933
  • J.P. McCarthy 1933
  • M. Emmett Walsh 1935 - Actor
  • Glen Campbell 1936
  • Tom Flores 1937 - Football player
  • Johnny Ferguson 1937
  • Dave Keon 1940 - Hockey player
  • Bruno Ganz 1941
  • imagebam.comBarbara Parkins 1942
  • George Benson 1943 - Singer, musician
  • Keith Relf 1943 - Musician (Yardbirds)
  • Jeremy Clyde 1944 - Actor, singer (Chad & Jeremy)
  • Harry Vanda 1947 - Musician (The Easybeats)
  • James Patterson 1947 - Author
  • Wolf Blitzer 1948 - liberal mouthpiece
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 - Composer
  • Randy Hobbs 1948 - Musician (The McCoys)
  • Fanny Ardent 1949 - Actress
  • Bob Costas 1952 - Sportscaster
  • James House 1955 - Country singer
  • Lena Olin 1955 - Actress ("Alias")
  • Stephani Mills 1957 - Actress, singer
  • Matthew Modine 1959 - Actor
  • Marcus Camby 1974 - Basketball player
  • Cole Hauser 1975 - Actor
  • Kellie Williams 1976 - Actress
  • Reese Witherspoon 1976 - Actress ("American Psycho")
  • John Otto 1977 - Musician (Limp Bizkit)

  
  


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