Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

adumbrate \a-DUHM-breyt\, verb:
1. To foreshadow; prefigure.
2. To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
3. To darken or conceal partially; overshadow.
Adumbrate derives from Latin adumbrare, "to sketch" (literally, "to shade towards," hence "to foreshadow or prefigure"), from ad-, "towards" + umbrare, "to shade," from umbra, "shadow."
 
Airplane Talker
1. A person who stands within the confines of your personal space bubble (causing extreme discomfort) to hold an ordinary conversation, like someone sitting next to you on an airplane would.
2. A person who speaks louder than the current conversation calls for, as if they are trying to talk over a plane's engines.
1. Your friend, over there, is a total airplane talker.
 
Trivia
What sexy male Hollywood heartthrob’s middle name is Tiffany?
  • Richard Gere’s.

History
  • "What hath God wrought?": inventor Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the first telegraph message; it went from Washington, DC, to Baltimore and it quoted Numbers 23:23 (1844)
  • Brooklyn Bridge: engineering marvel linking Brooklyn and Manhattan opened to traffic (1883)
  • Crosley Field: hosted MLB's first nighttime game played under lights; Cincinnati's Reds beat Philadelphia's Phillies, 2-1 (1935)
  • Concorde: supersonic passenger aircraft began flying to Washington, DC (1976)
  • James Jeffords: Republican senator became an Independent, giving control of the US Senate to the Democrats (2001)
Birthdays
  • Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit 1686 - Physicist, engineer, he determined the temperature scale named after him
  • Emanuel Leutze 1816
  • Queen Victoria (Britain) 1819
  • Samuel I. Newhouse 1895
  • Tommy Chong 1938 - Comedian (Cheech and Chong)
  • Prince Buster 1938
  • Lilli Palmer 1914
  • Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) 1941 - Traveling Wilburys
  • Derek Quinn 1942 - Musician (Freddie and the Dreamers)
  • Gary Burghoff 1943 - Actor ("M*A*S*H")
  • Patti LaBelle (Patricia Louise Holte) 1944 - Singer
  • Priscilla Presley 1945 - Wife of Elvis Presley
  • Steve Upton 1946
  • Judy Kahan 1948
  • Jim Broadbent 1950 - Actor
  • Alfred Molina 1953 - Actor
  • Rosanne Cash 1955 - Singer
  • Larry Blackmon (Cameo) 1956
  • Kristin Scott Thomas 1960 - Actor ("Under the Cherry Moon")
  • Joe Dumars 1963
  • Gene Anthony Ray 1963
  • Vivian Trimble 1963 - Singer (Luscious Jackson)
  • John C. Reilly 1965 - Actor
  • Heavy D 1967
  • Erin Close 1967 - Actor ("Without a Trace")
  • Tommy Page 1967
  • Rich Robinson 1969 - Musician (The Black Crowes)
  • Brad Penny 1978 - Baseball player
  • Billy L. Sullivan 1980




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