laconic \luh-KON-ik\, adjective:
- Using or marked by the use of a minimum of words; brief and pithy; brusque.
premake
- the original version of a song that another band has made a remake of, often used in a sarcastic manner
My friend told me "Live and Let Die" was his favorite Guns-N-Roses song, he seemed suprised when I told him Paul McCartney had done a premake of that song.
History
- Great Basel Earthquake: Swiss city was destroyed, along with parts of France and Germany (1356)
- Edict of Nantes: law that had granted religious liberties to Protestants was revoked by Louis XIV and replaced with the Edict of Fontainebleau; many Protestants left France as a result (1685)
- Moby-Dick: Herman Melville's novel about Captain Ahab's quest was published; it was originally entitled The Whale (1851)
- Alaska: territory known as "Seward's Folly" was purchased by the US from Russia for approximately $7 million in gold bullion (1867)
- Persons Case: a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruling in Edwards v. Canada determined that in Canada women could be defined as persons for political purposes (1929)
- Giovanni Canaletto 1697
- Salomon Andree 1854
- Henri Bergson 1859
- Lotte Lenya 1898
- Miriam Hopkins 1902
- James Brooks 1906
- Bobby Troup 1918
- Anita O'Day 1919
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canada) 1919
- Melina Mercouri 1923
- Chuck Berry 1926
- George C. Scott 1927
- Keith Jackson 1928
- Violeta Barrios de Chamorro 1929
- Forrest Gregg (NFL) 1933
- Inger Stevens 1934
- Peter Boyle 1935
- Mike Ditka (NFL) 1939
- Lee Harvey Oswald 1939
- Willie Horton (MLB) 1942
- Russ Giguere (The Association) 1943
- Joe Morton 1947
- Laura Nyro 1947
- Paulette Williams 1948
- Gary Richrath (REO Speedwagon) 1949
- Wendy Wasserstein 1950
- Pam Dawber 1951
- Terry McMillan 1951
- Jerry Royster (MLB) 1952
- Keith Knudsen (The Doobie Brothers) 1952
- Martina Navratilova 1956
- Thomas Hearns 1958
- Jean-Claude Van Damme 1960
- Erin Moran 1961
- Wynton Marsalis 1961
- Vincent Spano 1962
- Tim Cross (Sponge) 1966
- Michael Stich 1968
- Nonchalant 1973
- Peter Svenson (The Cardigans) 1974
- Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr.) - Singer, rapper
- Jesse Littleton (Marshall Dyllon) 1981
- Frieda Selena Pinto 1984
- Tyler Posey 1991 - Actor
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