Wednesday, December 14, 2016

brazen \BREY-zuhn\, adjective:

1. Shameless or impudent.

2. Made of brass.

Brazen has its source in an Old English form of the same word, meaning "of brass." When the Z was introduced to the English alphabet, meaning and spelling seemed to have shifted.

 

Do you

1. acting in a way that satisfies you, not caring at all about what others think nor about your actions and/or consequences

2. following your heart

3. possibly the best advice you can give anyone when they have a dilemma

Do you--when my friend asked me whether he should hang out with the boys or his girl, I told him to do you.

History 

• St. Lucia's flood: a broken dike in the Netherlands caused one of the worst floods in history; 50,000+ people were killed (1287)
• Alabama: The Yellowhammer State became America's 22nd state (1819)
• South Pole: was first visited by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his expedition (1911)
• Motown: record label that popularized the Motown Sound was formed in Detroit (1959)
• Apollo program: Eugene Cernan, as a member of Apollo 17, became the last man on the moon so far (1972)

Birthdays

• Nostradamus 1503
• Tycho Brahe 1546
• Roger Fry 1866
• George VI (Britain) 1895
• James Doolittle 1896
• Margaret Chase Smith 1897
• Bill Burke 1902
• Morey Amsterdam 1908
• Spike (Lindley Armstrong) Jones 1911
• Dan Dailey 1913
• Shirley Jackson 1919
• Clark Terry 1920
• Don Hewitt 1922
• Abbe Lane 1932
• George Furth 1932
• Charlie Rich 1932
• Lee Remick 1935
• Hal Williams 1938
• Frank St. Marseille (NHL) 1939 
• James Sutorius 1944
• Jane Birkin 1946
• Stan Smith 1946
• Patty Duke 1946
• Michael Ovitz 1946
• Jackie McCauley (Them) 1946
• Joyce Vincent-Wilson (Tony Orlando, Dawn) 1946
• Dee Wallace-Stone 1948
• Bill Buckner (MLB) 1949
• Cliff Williams (AC/DC) 1949 
• Tamara Daanz 1952
• Mike Scott (The Waterboys) 1958
• Peter "Spider" Stacy (The Pogues) 1958
• Cynthia Gibb 1963
• Brian Dalyrimple (Soul for Real) 1975
• Bridget Hall 1977
• Sophie Monk 1979
• Vanessa Anne Hudgens 1988 ...