Thursday, December 29, 2016

Thursday, December 29, 2016

engram \EN-gram\, noun:
1. The supposed physical basis of an individual memory in the brain.
2. A presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
Engram derives from the Greek roots en, "within," and gram, "something written."

voluntold

  • The exact opposite of volunteering. Always used in reference to an unpleasant task to which you have been assigned by your boss.
Example 1:
Co-worker 1: I hear you got a transfer.
Co-worker 2: Yeah. I didn't want to, but I was voluntold.

Example 2:
Co-worker 1: You want to go fishing Saturday???
Co-worker 2: I can't, I got voluntold I have to work this weekend.

History
  • Thomas Becket: the Archbishop of Canturbury was killed by four knights in his cathedral; he later became a saint (1170)
  • Texas: Lone Star State became the 28th American state (1845)
  • YMCA: the first such men's club in the US was founded, based on the London model that was started in the previous decade by George Williams (1851)
  • Wounded Knee Massacre: last major confrontation between the Sioux and the US Army ended with hundreds of Indians killed (1890)
  • Tian Tan Buddha: 110-ft.-(34 m.)-tall bronze Buddha statue in Hong Kong was completed (1993)
  • Guatemala: peace treaty ended 36 years of civil strife (1996) 
Birthdays
  • Marquise de Pompadour 1721
  • Charles Goodyear 1800
  • Andrew Johnson (U.S.) 1808
  • William Gladstone 1809
  • Pablo Casals 1876
  • Viveca Lindfors 1920
  • William Gaddis 1922
  • Rose Lee Maphis 1922
  • Dina Merrill 1928
  • Inga Swenson 1932
  • Tom Jarriel 1934
  • Ed Flanders 1934
  • Ray Nitschke 1936
  • Jon Voight 1938
  • Mary Tyler Moore 1938
  • Ed Bruce 1940
  • Ray Thomas (Moody Blues) 1942
  • Marianne Faithfull 1946
  • Ted Danson 1947
  • Cozy Powell 1947
  • Jon Polito 1950
  • Gelsey Kirkland 1952
  • Yvonne Elliman (Jesus Christ Superstar) 1953
  • Ed Autry 1954
  • Neil Geraldo 1955
  • Paula Poundstone 1960
  • Mark Day (Happy Mondays) 1961
  • Jim Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain) 1961
  • Jason Gouuld 1966
  • Mystro Clark 1966
  • Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) 1970
  • Jude Law 1972
  • Shawn Hatosy 1975
  • Jessica Andrews 1983

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