Thursday, December 15, 2016

Thursday, December 15, 2016

boondocks \BOON-doks\, noun:
1. A remote rural area (usually preceded by "the.")
2. An uninhabited area with thick natural vegetation, as a backwoods or marsh.
Boondocks finds its way into English from the Tagalog word bundok, "mountain." Adopted by occupying American soldiers in the Philippines to designate a "remote and wild place."
 
bromit
  • When you burp and almost vomit at the same time.
Suzanne turned to Briana and said, "I think that Coke just made me bromit."

History
  • Bill of Rights: the right to bear arms as well as freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and more became United States law when the states ratified Amendments I-X of the US Constitution (1791)
  • Sitting Bull: Lakota Sioux military and spiritual leader who defeated Gen. Custer at Little Bighorn was killed (1890)
  • Gone With the Wind: Civil War-era epic film premiered in Atlanta (1939)
  • Adolf Eichmann: an Israeli court sentenced to death the former Nazi official who had zealously supported the use of gas chambers to exterminate the Jews in WWII (1961)
  • flag of Canada: Canada adopted its national flag, a red maple leaf on a white background (1964)
  • Romanian Revolution: popular uprising began, leading to the downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu (1989)
Birthdays
  • Nero (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) 37 AD - Fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
  • George Romney 1734 - English portrait painter
  • Gustave Eiffel 1832 - Engineer: designed Paris’ Eiffel Tower and helped design Statue of Liberty
  • Ludwig (Lazarus) Zamenhof 1859 - Linguist, developed international language: Esperanto
  • Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey (John Edward Kelly) 1862 - Boxer
  • J. Paul Getty 1892 - Oil magnate: Getty Oil
  • Buddy (Edwin) Cole 1916 - Pianist (The Buddy Cole Trio)
  • Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel) 1918 - Actor (Merrill’s Marauders, Return to Peyton Place, Broken Arrow)
  • Eddie (William Edward) Robinson - 1920 - Baseball player
  • Alan Freed 1922 - Disc jockey in Cleveland
  • Jerry Wallace 1928 - Singer, actor (Hec Ramsey)
  • Jimmy Nelson 1928 - Ventriloquist
  • Ernest Ashworth 1928 - Country singer
  • Friedrich Hundertwasser 1928 - Artist, printer, painter, ecologist
  • Edna O'Brien 1931 - Author (Time and Tide, Country Girls Trilogy)
  • Jessie Belvin 1967 - Singer
  • Clyde McPhatter 1932 - Musician (Dominoes, Drifters)
  • Tim Conway 1933 - Actor, comedian (McHale’s Navy, The Tim Conway Show, The Carol Burnett Show)
  • Cindy Birdsong 1939 - Singer (Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles, Diana Ross and The Supremes)
  • Nick Buoniconti 1940 - Football Hall of Famer, football analyst (HBO: Inside the NFL)
  • Dave Clark 1942 - Singer (The Dave Clark Five), TV producer, actor
  • Pete Duranko 1943 - Football player
  • Stan (Stanley Raymond) Bahnsen 1944 - Baseball player
  • Carmine Appice 1946 - Musician (Vanilla Fudge)
  • Doug (Douglas James) Rau 1948 - Baseball player
  • Charlie Scott 1948 - Basketball player
  • Don Johnson (Donnie Wayne Johnson) 1949 - Actor (Nash Bridges, Miami Vice)
  • Alex Cox 1954 - Movie director (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy)
  • Justin Ross 1954 - Actor
  • Paul Simonon 1955 - Musician (Clash)
  • Doug Phelps 1960 - Singer (Kentucky Headhunters)
  • Reginald Hudlin 1961 - Director (The Great White Hype)
  • Daryl Turner 1961 - Football player
  • Helen Slater 1963 - Actress (City Slickers, Ruthless People)
  • Molly Price 1965 - Actress
  • Michael Shanks 1970 - Actor (Stargate SG-1, The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon)
  • Stuart Townsend 1972 - Actor (Venice Project, 24 Hours)
  • Kito Trawick 1977 - "Crowd-hyper" (Ghostown DJs)
  • Adam Brody 1979 - Actor (The O.C.)
  • George O. Gore II 1981 - Actor (My Wife and Kids)


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