Thursday, September 15, 2016

Thursday, September 15, 2016

arch \AHRCH\, adjective:
1. Cunning; crafty; sly.
2. Obsolete. A person who is preeminent; a chief.

noun:
1. A curved masonry construction for spanning an opening.
Arch originally meant "chief," as in an archangel, but took on the sense of "mischevious" in the 1660s.
 
Autotan
  • The method of artificially enhancing one's tan in pictures after them being taken using some photo editing software. The most common way of doing this is increasing the saturation of the photo, then uploading to social networking sites. Derived from Auto-tune, the software used to enhance vocals in many modern songs.
Nah she isn't, she just autotanned the photo, she's still pale really

History
  • Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declared their independence of Spain (1821)
  • Galápagos Islands: were reached by naturalist Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle (1835)
  • Nuremberg Laws: deprived Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official emblem of Nazi Germany (1935)
  • civil rights: a bomb killed four black girls when it exploded during Sunday services in a Birmingham, Alabama, church, sparking race riots (1963)
  • USA Today: Gannett's national newspaper hit the stands; it's America's top-selling daily newspaper in print (1982)
  • Lehman Brothers: the investment bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — the largest bankruptcy in US history (2008)
Birthdays
  • James Fenimore Cooper 1789
  • William H. Taft (U.S.) 1857
  • Robert Benchley 1889
  • Agatha Christie 1890
  • Jean Renoir 1894
  • Roy Acuff 1903
  • Fay Wray 1907
  • Penny Singleton 1908
  • Margaret Lockwood 1916
  • Snooky Pryor 1921
  • Jackie Cooper 1922
  • Bobby Short 1926
  • Norm Crosby 1927
  • Cannonball Adderly 1928
  • Gaylord Perry 1938
  • Merlin Olsen 1940
  • Jimmy Gilmer (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs) 1940
  • Les Braid (The Swinging Blue Jeans) 1941
  • Carmen Maura 1945
  • Jessye Norman 1945
  • Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly) 1945
  • Oliver Stone 1946
  • Tommy Lee Jones 1946
  • Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies) 1960
  • Dan Marino (NFL) 1961
  • Danny Nucci 1968
  • Kay Gee (Naughty by Nature) 1969
  • Josh Charles 1971
  • Tom Hardy 1977 (Bane from The Dark Knight)
  • Amy Davidson 1978
  • Prince Harry of Wales 1984
  • Jenna "Marbles" Mourey 1986 - blogger, model, comedian, go-go dancer
  • Heidi Montag 1986 - nit-wit



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