Thursday, July 21, 2016

Thursday, July 21, 2016

occlude \uh-KLOOD\, verb:
1. To shut in, out, or off.
2. Physical Chemistry. (Of certain metals and other solids) to incorporate (gases and other foreign substances), as by absorption or adsorption.
3. Dentistry. To shut or close, with the cusps of the opposing teeth of the upper and lower jaws fitting together.
Occlude owes its popular usage to the dental term occlusion, "the fitting together of the teeth of the lower jaw with the corresponding teeth of the upper jaw when the jaws are closed."
 
a crapella
  • Singing out loud while listening to music with your headphones on. Whereas the singer gets the benefit of the music, those unfortunate to be standing nearby are subjected to an unaccompanied (and invariably crappy) rendition of the song.
"I wish that guy would turn his iPod off - his a crapella version of Bohemian Rhapsody is killing me"

baxoteric
  • the baxojayz initiated; those who are aware of and follow t3h bax0jayz
  • also bax0teric, t3h bax0t3ric
one: why did Kate leave Len?
two: she found out he wasn't baxoteric
History
  • Temple of Artemis: marble shrine that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was burned down by a fame-seeking young man, Herostratus (356 BCE)
  • Bull Run: Confederate forces won the first major battle of the Civil War; Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquired his nickname "Stonewall" (1861)
  • Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching Darwinism in a Tennessee high school (1925)
  • 17th parallel: following defeat at Dien Bien Phu, France agreed to withdraw troops from communist North Vietnam (1954)
  • Aswan Dam: was completed, preventing Nile floods and providing electricity and water for Egypt and Sudan (1970)
  • WorldCom: filed for bankruptcy about a month after revealing deceptive accounting had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion; it was the largest bankruptcy in US history (2002)
Birthdays
    • Jean Picard (1620-1682): astronomer, the first to measure a degree of the Earth's latitude
    • Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist
    • Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar
    • Isaac Stern 1920 - Violinist
    • Kay Starr 1922 - Singer
    • Don Knotts 1924 - Actor
    • Paul Burke 1926 - Actor
    • Norman Jewison 1926 - Film director, producer, actor, founder of the Canadian Film Centre
    • Janet Reno 1938 - Attorney General of the U.S. (1993-2001)
    • Kim Fowley 1942 - Record producer, songwriter, musician
    • David Downing 1943 - Actor
    • Edward Herrmann 1943 - Actor
    • Leigh Lawson 1945 - Actor, director, writer
    • Cat Stevens 1947 - Musician
    • Robin Williams 1952 - Actor, comedian
    • Jon Lovitz 1957 - Actor ("Saturday Night Live") comedian, singer
    • Henry Priestman (Henry Christian Priestman) 1958 - Singer, musician (The Christians)
    • Lance Guest 1960 - Actor
    • Matt Mulhern 1960 - Actor
    • Jim Martion 1961 - Musician (Faith No More)
    • Emerson Hart 1969 - Musician (Tonic)
    • Paul Brandt (Paul Rennee Belobersycky) 1972 - Country musician
    • Gary Whitta 1972 - Author, screenwriter, video game designer
    • Josh Hartnett 1978 - Actor


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