Sunday, November 20, 2016

Sunday, November 20, 2016

weal \WEEL\, noun:
1. Well-being, prosperity, or happiness.
2. A raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow.
3. (Obsolete:) the state or body politic.
Weal shares the Old English root wela with welfare and a host of other English words. The ultimate source in Proto-Indo-European is wel-, which is also the ancestor of words related to will.

Emperor's Hand

  • A person who performs "special tasks" for Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire. Mara Jade was a known Hand.
"Palpatine is an unmarried man, right?"
"Yeah, I'd hate to be one of the Emperor's Hands on a lonely night."

History 
  • Peregrine White: the first child of English parents born in present-day New England, came into the world on the Mayflower, docked in Massachusetts Bay (1620)
  • New Jersey: the Garden State became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights (1789)
  • Nuremberg trials: an Allied tribunal began trying Nazis for war crimes; the defense of "I was following orders" was not accepted (1945)
  • Elizabeth II: the future queen of England married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey (1947)
Birthdays
  • Edwin Hubble 1889
  • Chester Gould 1900
  • Alistair Cooke 1908
  • Evelyn Keyes 1919
  • Beryl Sprinkel 1923
  • Robert F. Kennedy 1925
  • Kaye Ballard 1926
  • Estelle Parsons 1927
  • Richard Dawson 1932
  • Kim Weston 1939
  • Dick Smothers 1939
  • Norman Greenbaum 1942
  • Veronica Hamel 1943
  • Judy Woodruff 1946
  • Duane Allman 1946 - Musician (Allman Brothers)
  • Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh 1947 - Musician (James Gang, Eagles)
  • Richard Masur 1948
  • Bo Derek 1956
  • Jim Brown 1957 - Musician (UB40)
  • Sean Young 1959
  • Todd Nance 1962 - Musician (Widespread Panic)
  • Mike D. 1965 - Musician (The Beastie Boys)
  • Sen Dog 1965 - Musician (Cypress Hill)
  • Ming-Na Wen 1967
  • Phife Dog 1970
  • Marisa Ryan 1974
  • Josh Turner 1977 - Country singer
  • Nadine Velasquez 1978 - Actress
    
  

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