Thursday, July 14, 2016

spoor \SPOHR\, noun:

1. A track or trail, esp. that of a wild animal pursued as game.

verb:

1. To track by or follow a spoor.

Spoor derives from the Afrikaans word for trace. It is related to spurn.

 

Momager

• a teen actor or singer's manager who is also their mother

Lohan also appeared on Healthy Kids, a children's health show, along with Dina Lohan, her mother and business manager or Momager.

History

• Sedition Act: Congress passed a law prohibiting publishing false, scandalous or malicious writing against the US government (1798)
• the Matterhorn: the Swiss-Italian Alp was first scaled, by British mountaineer Edward Whymper (1865) 
• Billy the Kid: the 21-year-old outlaw was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico (1881)
• Sacco and Vanzetti: the two infamous anarchists were convicted of murder and sentenced to death (1921)
• Mariner 4: spacecraft performed the first flyby of another planet and sent back the first pictures of the surface of Mars (1965)
• large denominations of US currency: were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve System, leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating currency (1969)

Birthdays

• Andrea del Sarto 1486
• Emmeline Pankhurst 1858
• Florence Bascom 1862
• William Leefe Robinson 1895
• Ken Murray 1903
• Irving Stone 1903
• Gloria Stuart 1910
• William Hanna 1910
• Terry-Thomas 1911
• Woody Guthrie 1912
• Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913 

  
• Douglas Edwards 1917
• Ingmar Bergman 1918
• Arthur Laurents 1918 - Playwright ("West Side Story," "Gypsy")
• Frances Lear 1923
• Dale Robertson 1923
• Harry Dean Stanton 1926 - Actor
• John Chancellor 1927
• Nancy Olson 1928
• Polly Bergen 1930 - Actress, singer
• Del Reeves 1932
• Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier 1932 - Football player
• Karel Gott 1939
• Spencer Davis 1941
• Vincent Pastore 1946 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Chris Cross 1952
• Jerry Houser 1952
• Eric Laneuville 1952
• Jane Lynch 1960 - Actress ("Glee")
• Jackie Earle Haley 1961
• Darrelle Revis 1961 - Actor
• Matthew Fox 1966 - Actor ("Lost", "Party of Five")
• Tonya Donelly 1966 - Musician (Belly)
• Missy Gold 1970 - Actress
• Tameka Cottle 1975 - (Xscape)
• Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez) 1975 - Rapper/singer (Black Eyed Peas)
• Scott Porter 1979 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")