Sunday, August 21, 2016

peon

1.

a. An unskilled laborer or farm worker of Latin America or the southwest United States.

b. Such a worker bound in servitude to a landlord creditor.

2. A menial worker; a drudge.

3. (also pyun) In India and other parts of South and Southeast Asia, a person of menial position, especially a messenger, servant, or foot soldier.

From Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘walker, foot soldier,’ from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot.  

hit on the horn

• To make a phone call (mostly used by African Americans.)

A: "Yo... sorry I am late Bro."

B: "Yeah... I just was goin´ to hit on the horn."

History

• Lincoln-Douglas debates: began in the Illinois Senate race; slavery and states' rights were the main issues (1858)
• Mona Lisa: was stolen from the Louvre by a museum employee; she was recovered two years later (1911)
• Leon Trotsky: Soviet revolutionary died of wounds inflicted by a Stalinist assassin with an ice axe (1940)

Birthdays

• Aubrey Beardsley 1872
  
• William Count Basie 1904
• Chris Schenkel 1923
• Jack Weston 1924
• Art Farmer 1928
• Elmo Langley 1928
• Princess Margaret (Britain) 1930
• Melvin Van Peebles 1932
• Wilt Chamberlain 1936
• Kenny Rogers 1938
• James Burton 1939
• Clarence Williams III 1939
• Harold Reid (The Statler Brothers) 1939
• Ernie Maresca 1939 - Musician
• Jackie DeShannon 1944
• Willie Lanier 1945
• Patty McCormack 1945
• Carl Giammarese (The Buckinghams) 1947
• Harry Smith 1951
• Joe Strummer (The Clash) 1952
• Nick Kane (The Mavericks) 1954
• Kim Cattrall 1956
• Kim Sledge (Sister Sledge) 1957
• Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees) 1957
• Jim McMahon 1959
• Carrie-Anne Moss 1970
• Liam Howlett (Prodigy) 1971
• Gary Whitta 1972 - Screenwriter, author, video game designer
• Alicia Witt 1975
• Hayden Panettiere 1989