Saturday, May 14, 2016

Saturday, May 14, 2016

sawyer \SAW-yer\, noun:
1. One that is employed in sawing wood.
2. Also called sawyer beetle. Any of several long-horned beetles, esp. one of the genus Monochamus, the larvae of which bore in the wood of coniferous trees.
3. A tree or a part of a tree that protrudes above the surface in a body of water.
Before it became a surname, sawyer was a common occupational title, from the Middle English sawier, "to saw."
 
and then I found five dollars
  • a phrase used at the end of a story that had really no point to be told to someone. used at the end of boring stories to make them seem more interesting and worthwhile.
"yesterday i went to the fridge and took out a yogurt but put it back and got an apple instead.
...and then i found 5 dollars."

History
  • Jamestown: America's first permanent English colony was established in Virginia (1607)
  • Louis XIV: became king of France at age 4 (1643)
  • smallpox: Edward Jenner administered the first vaccine against the highly contagious disease to an eight-year-old boy (1796)
  • Lewis and Clark expedition: began its exploratory journey to the Pacific Ocean (1804)
  • Olympic Games: were held in the US for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri (1904)
  • Israel: the Jewish state was proclaimed independent; Egypt, Transjordan (later Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq declared war on it almost immediately (1948)
  • Skylab: America's first space station was launched into orbit (1973)
  • Seinfeld: the final episode aired, with 76 million viewers watching (1998)
Birthdays
  • Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - Painter
  • Billie Dove 1903 - Actress
  • Skip Martin (Lloyd "Skip" Martin) 1916 - Musician
  • Norman Luboff 1917 - Music arranger, publisher
  • Richard Deacon 1921 - Actor
  • Al Porcino 1925 - Trumpet player
  • Patrice Munsel 1925 - Singer
  • Gump Worsley (Lorne John "Gump" Worsley) 1929 - Hockey goaltender
  • Laszlo Kovacs 1933 - Sprint canoer
  • Bobby Darin 1936 - Singer, actor
  • Dick Howser 1936 - Baseball player
  • Charlie Gracie (Charles Anthony Graci) 1936 - Musician, singer
  • Tony Perez (Atanasio Pérez Rigal) 1942 - Baseball player
  • Jack Bruce 1943 - Musician (Cream)
  • Derek Leckenby 1943 - Musician (Herman's Hermits)
  • George Lucas 1944 - Film producer, screenwriter, director ("Star Wars" movie series)
  • Troy Shondell 1944 - Singer
  • Francesca Annis 1944 - Actress
  • Gener Cornish 1945 - Musician (The Young Rascals)
  • Meg Foster (Megan Foster) 1948 - Actress
  • Season Hubley (Susan Hubley) 1951 - Actress
  • Robert Zemeckis 1952 - Film director, producer, screenwriter
  • David Byrne 1952 - Musician (Talking Heads)
  • Tom Cochrane 1953 - Musician
  • Tim Roth 1961 - Actor ("Resovoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction")
  • Ian Astbury 1962 - Musician (Cult)
  • C.C. DeVille 1962 - Musician (Poison)
  • Mike Inez 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains)
  • Fabrice Morvan 1966 - Singer (Milli Vanilli)
  • Cate Blanchett (Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett) 1969 - Actress, theatre director
  • Danny Wood 1969 - Singer (New Kids on the Block)
  • Freaky Tah 1971 - Musician (Lost Boyz)
  • Sophia Coppola 1971 - Director
  • Shanice (Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox) 1973 - Singer
  • Natalie Appleton 1973 - Musician (All Saints)
  • Roy Halladay 1977 - Baseball player
  • Amber Tamblyn 1983 - Actress ("General Hospital")
  • Frank Gore 1983 - Football player
  • Mark Zuckerberg 1984 - Founder of Facebook
  • Miranda Cosgrove 1993 - Actress ("iCarly," "Drake and Josh")

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