Friday, October 21, 2016

TGIF! Friday, October 21, 2016

coruscate \KOR-uh-skayt\, intransitive verb:
1. To give off or reflect bright beams or flashes of light; to sparkle.
2. To exhibit brilliant, sparkling technique or style.
Coruscate comes from Latin coruscatus, past participle of coruscare, "to move quickly, to tremble, to flutter, to twinkle or flash." The noun form is coruscation. Also from coruscare is the adjective coruscant, "glittering in flashes; flashing."
 
Dracula sneeze
  • holding your arm up over your face in a position similar to Dracula holding up his cape and then sneezing into you elbow
Do to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic the Centers For Disease Control recommends using the Dracula sneeze technique to avoid spreading germs.

History 
  • Old Ironsides: the United States Navy frigate USS Constitution was launched in Boston Harbor (1797)
  • Thomas Edison: invented a workable incandescent electric lamp in his Menlo Park lab (1879)
  • Guggenheim: stunning Frank Lloyd Wright structure housing a museum of modern art opened on Museum Mile in New York (1959)
  • Vietnam War: tens of thousands marched in Washington, DC, protesting America's involvement in the war (1967)
  • 1975 World Series: Carlton Fisk hit a ball that bounced off a left field foul pole, giving him a home run and a Red Sox win over the Reds in 12 innings in the series' sixth game (1975)
Birthdays
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772
  • Alfred Nobel 1833
  • Sir Georg Solti 1912
  • Dizzy Gillespie 1917
  • Bob Rosburg 1926
  • Whitey Ford (MLB) 1928
  • Ursula LeGuin 1929
  • Georgia Brown 1933
  • Manfred Mann 1940
  • Francis Fitzgerald 1940
  • Steve Cropper (Booker T & the MGs, Blues Brothers) 1941
  • Elvin Bishop 1942
  • Brian Picolo (NFL) 1943
  • Ron Elliot (Beau Brummels) 1943
  • Everett McGill 1945
  • Lee Loughnane (Chicago) 1946
  • Bill Russell (MLB) 1948
  • Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) 1949
  • Charlotte Caffey (Go-Go's) 1953
  • Eric Faulkner (Bay City Rollers) 1955
  • Carrie Fisher 1956
  • Julian Cope 1957
  • Steve Lukather (Toto) 1957
  • Che Colovita Lemon (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1970
  • Jade Jagger 1971
  • Jeremy Miller 1976
  • Will Estes 1977
  • Kim Kardashian 1980 - "Actress"
  • Juliete Cabrera 1987 


   
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