Sunday, July 17, 2016

palladian \puh-LEY-dee-uhn\, adjective:

1. Pertaining to wisdom, knowledge, or study.

2. Of or pertaining to the goddess Athena.

3. Pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.

Palladian is a direct ancestor of the Greek Palládios, "of Athena," goddess of wisdom.

 

Tab o' War

• The fight over the check at the dinner table over who will pay.

"You're getting ridiculous, Debbie, I'm wanting to pay tonight."

"Just give her the damn check, Sabine, you two look like your having a Tab o' War in the middle of the restaurant!

History

• Spanish-American War: ended when Spanish troops surrendered to US in Santiago, Cuba (1898)
• House of Windsor: in the wake of anti-German sentiment, British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1917)
• Potsdam Conference: world leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill begin the final Allied summit of WWII (1945)
• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: for the first time, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit; it marked the warming US-USSR relationship (1975)
• Woolworths: the last of the company's five-and-dime stores closed; over 9,000 employees went jobless (1997)

Birthdays

• John Astor 1762
• Luis Munoz-Rivera 1859
• Erle Stanley Gardner 1889
• Berenice Abbott 1898
• James Cagney 1899
• Christina E. Stead 1902
• William Gargan 1905
• Art Linkletter 1912
• Eleanor Steber 1916
• Lou Boudreau 1917
• Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian
• Gordon Gould 1920
• Niccolo Castiglioni 1932
• Mimi Hines 1933
• Pat McCormick 1934
• Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor
• Diahann Carroll 1935 - Actress, singer
• Peter Schickele 1935 - Musician (P. D. Q. Bach)
• Spencer Davis 1939 - Musician, singer (Spencer Davis Group)
• Connie Hawkins 1942 - Basketball player
• Camilla 1947 - Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Britain's Prince Charles
• Cathy Ferguson 1948
• Mick Tucker 1949 - Musician (Sweet)
• Terence 'Geezer' Butler 1949 - Musician (Black Sabbath)
• Mike Vale 1949 - Musician (Tommy James and the Shondells)
• Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress
• Phoebe Snow 1952 - Singer

  
• David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor ("Knight Rider," "Baywatch"), singer, actor, living legend 
• Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor
• Bryan Trottier 1956 - Hockey player
• Nancy Giles 1960
• Regina Belle 1963
• Alex Winter 1965
• Guru (Keith Elam) 1966 - Rapper (Gang Starr)
• Stockley (David "Stokley" Williams) 1967 - Singer (Mint Condition)
• JC (Jarret Cordes, J.C. the Eternal) 1971 - (PM Dawn)
• Kitten Jones 1982