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hopscotch \HOP-skoch\, verb:
1. To journey quickly and directly from one usually far place to another.
noun:
1. A children's game in which a player tosses or kicks an object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the ground.
verb:
1. To move or pass through something, as a geographical area or a field of endeavor, making many brief stops.
The scotch in hopscotch is an alteration of scratch, from the lines scored in the dirt to make the squares for the game.
hoverboard money
- When you have so much money that you can just pay someone to invent whatever it is that you want.
Of course I donated $100 million to look good after the Facebook movie. That's hoverboard money!
History
- Battle of Hastings: the last Anglo-Saxon king of England fell to William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest (1066)
- sound barrier: was broken for the first time by a person, United States Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager, who flew a secret experimental Bell X-1 jet at supersonic speed (1947)
- Peace Corps: the idea to send American volunteers abroad was first mentioned by JFK when he was a presidential candidate (1960)
- William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
- Dwight David Eisenhower (U.S.) 1890
- Lillian Gish 1893
- E.E. Cummings 1894
- Eugene Fodor 1905
- Allan Jones 1908
- John Wooden 1910
- C. Everett Koop 1916
- Bill Justis 1926
- Roger Moore 1927
- Robert Webber 1928
- Melba Montgomery 1938
- Ralph Lauren 1939
- Cliff Richard 1940
- Tommy Harper (MLB) 1940
- J.C. Snead 1941
- Billy Harrison (Them) 1942
- Udo Kier 1944
- Al Oliver (MLB) 1946
- Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues) 1946
- Charlie Joiner (NFL) 1947
- Marcia Barrett (Boney M) 1948
- Sheila Young 1950
- Harry Anderson 1952
- Greg Evigan 1953
- Beth Daniel 1956
- Arleen Sorkin 1956
- Thomas Dolby 1958
- Keith Byars (NFL) 1963
- Karyn White 1965
- John Seda 1970
- Jimmy Jackson 1970
- Doug Virden (Sons of the Desert) 1970
- Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) 1974
- Shaznay Lewis (All Saints) 1975
- Usher 1978
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