Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

ambrosial \am-BROH-zhuhl\, adjective:
1. Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
2. Worthy of the gods; divine.
Ambrosial comes from the Greek ambrosios, "of the Gods." Ambrosia refers to the food or drink consumed by the Greek pantheon.
 
dead text
  • a text that is recieved too long after is sent so you are no longer obligated to reply to it.
I recieved a message from my friend the morning after it was sent asking if I was still up, so I decided not to reply because it was a dead text.

History 
  • "The Star Spangled Banner": US anthem was written by attorney Francis Scott Key during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore (1814)
  • Selective Service Act: Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in US history (1940)
  • Luna 2: the spherical Soviet spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon; it crashed onto the lunar surface (1959)
  • Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton: widow who founded the American Sisters of Charity was canonized by Pope Paul VI, becoming the first US-born saint (1975)
  • 1994 Major League Baseball season: was officially canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig, 34 days after the players' strike began (1994)
Birthdays 
  • Ivan Pavlov 1849
  • Charles Dana Gibson 1867
  • Margaret Sanger 1879
  • Jack Hawkins 1910
  • Clayton Moore 1914
  • Kay Medford 1920
  • Hughes Rudd 1921
  • Constance Baker Motley 1921
  • Bud Palmer 1923
  • Jerry Coleman 1924
  • Allan Bloom 1930
  • Zoe Caldwell 1933
  • Harve Presnell 1933
  • Kate Millett 1934
  • Walter Koenig 1936
  • Nicol Williamson 1938
  • Priscilla Mitchell 1941
  • Joey Heatherton 1944
  • Pete Agnew (Nazareth) 1946
  • Sam Neill 1947
  • John "Bowser" Bauman (Sha Na Na) 1947
  • Steven Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949 
  • Paul Kossoff (Free) 1950
  • Barry Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1954
  • Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) 1955
  • Joe Penny 1956
  • John Berry 1959
  • Mary Crosby 1959
  • Mary Frances 1959
  • Morton Harket (a-ha) 1959
  • Faith Ford 1964
  • Don Cortese 1968
  • Tyler Perry 1969
  • Craig Montoya (Everclear) 1970
  • Kimberly Williams-Paisley 1971
  • Andrew Lincoln 1973 (Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead)
  • Nas 1973
  • Amy Weinhouse 1983 (singer turned zombie)
  • Adam Lamberg 1984

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