Sunday, August 14, 2016

Sunday, August 14, 2016

premorse \pri-MAWRS\, adjective:
  • Pertaining to the end of something irregularly shortened, as if bitten or broken off.
Premorse originates in botany and derives from the Latin praemorsus, "bitten off in front." Notice the relationship to morsel.
bragplaining
  • When you complain about something for the sole purpose of brining it up in conversation to brag about it.
Man, I'm only getting 10MB/s download speed. Normally I get at least 15.
Quit bragplaining. We all know you're just bitching to show off.
Trivia
What color did artist James Abbot McNeill Whistler dismiss as “just pink trying to be purple”?
  • Mauve.
History
  • Oregon Territory: was organized by an act of US Congress, consisting of all of present-day Oregon, Idaho and Washington, and parts of Montana and Wyoming (1848)
  • Social Security Act: was signed into law by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, establishing pensions and unemployment insurance (1935)
  • V-J Day: Japan surrendered, ending World War II (1945)
  • Pakistan: southern Asia country became independent of Britain (1947)
  • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez: the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" was captured (1994)
  • Northeast Blackout of 2003: 50 million people — one-third the population of Canada plus one-seventh the population of the US — lost electricity (2003)
Birthdays
  • Ernest Thayer 1863
  • John Galsworthy 1867
  • Russell Baker 1925
  • Buddy Greco 1926
  • Alice Ghostly 1926
  • John Brodie 1935
  • Dash Crofts (Seals and Crofts) 1940
  • David Crosby 1941
  • Connie Smith 1941
  • Robyn Smith Astaire 1944
  • Steve Martin 1945
  • Antonio Fargas 1946
  • Susan St. James 1946
  • Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone) 1946
  • Danielle Steel 1947
  • Gary Larson 1950 - Creator of "The Far Side"
  • Terry Adams (NRBQ) 1950
  • Debbie Meyer 1952
  • James Horner 1953
  • Jackee Harry 1956
  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson (NBA) 1959
  • Susan Olsen 1961
  • Emanuelle Beart 1965
  • Halle Berry 1968
  • Catherine Bell 1968
  • Mila Kunis 1983









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