Wednesday, August 31, 2016

beek \BEEK\, verb:

1. To bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fire.

2. (Of wood) to season by exposure to heat.

Beek is related to the same Middle English root that results in bake.

pockets on swole

• Having pockets full of money, i.e. swolen

"Pockets on swole lookin like they got the mumps" - Yung Joc

"I pull up in tha lambo

Pockets stay on swole" - Bow Wow

History

• Malaya: became independent of the United Kingdom (1957); a few years later this federation of states became Malaysia
• Trinidad and Tobago: island nation of the southern Caribbean, birthplace of limbo, became independent of the United Kingdom (1962)
• Jack the Ripper: first victim was found with her throat cut in London's East End (1888)
• Princess Diana: was killed in a car crash along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and her driver as they attempted to evade paparazzi (1997)
• Baghdad bridge stampede: 1,000 pilgrims were killed when panic over a supposed suicide bomber caused a crush of people on the Al-Aaimmah bridge over the Tigris River (2005)

Birthdays

• Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012
• Maria Montessori 1870
• Wilhelmina (Netherlands) 1880
• Frederic March 1897
• Arthur Godfrey 1903
• William Saroyan 1908
• Sir Benrard Lovell 1914
• Daniel Schorr 1916
• Alan Jay Lerner 1918
• Richard Basehart 1919
• G.D. Spradlin 1920
• Buddy Hackett 1924
• James Coburn 1928
• Frank Robinson 1935
• Eldridge Cleaver 1935
• Warren Berlinger 1937
• Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) 1939
• Jack Thompson 1940
• Roger Dean 1944 - Artist
• Itzhak Perlman 1945
• Van Morrison (Them) 1945
• Richard Gere 1949
• Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions) 1952
• Anthony Thistlewaite (The Waterboys) 1955
• Gina Shock (The Go-Go's) 1957
• Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze) 1957
• Edwin Moses 1958
• Chris Whitley 1960
• Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1960
• Larry Waddell (Mint Condition) 1963
• Jeff Russo (Tonic) 1969
• Debbie Gibson 1970
• Tamara (Trina & Tamara) 1977