Wednesday, December 7, 2016

estivate \ES-tuh-veyt\, verb:

1. To spend the summer, as at a specific place or in a certain activity.

2. In zoology, to spend a hot, dry season in an inactive, dormant state, as certain reptiles, snails, insects, and small mammals.

Estivate derives from the Latin aestivare, with aestivus meaning "relating to the summer."

 

cool story bro

• A phrase sarcastically used to indicate one's disgust or indifference towards a tl;dr story.

Person A: (lengthy tale about how Person A tragically broke up with his/her mate the other day)

Person B: cool story bro

Holiday

• Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: a day to commemorate when Japan launched an unprovoked cowardly sneak-attack on a sleeping American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the US into WWII (1941)

  

History

• Delaware: the First State ratified the US Constitution and was admitted to the Union (1787)
• New York Philharmonic: America's oldest symphony orchestra debuted; they played Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (1842)
• "The Blue Marble": famous photograph was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 as NASA's last moon mission flew away from Cape Canaveral (1972)

Birthdays

• Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 1598
• Willa Cather 1873
• Eli Wallach 1915
• Ted Knight 1923
• Bent Frabric 1924
• Bobby Osborne 1931
• Ellen Burstyn 1932
• Carole Simpson 1940
• Harry Chapin 1942
• Johnny Bench (MLB) 1947
• Gary Morris 1948
• Tom Waits 1949
  
• Larry Bird (NBA) 1956
• Priscilla Barnes 1956
• Edd Hall 1958
• Tim Butler (Psychedelic Furs) 1958
• C. Thomas Howell 1966
• Nicole Appleton (All Saints) 1975 
• Orli Shoshan 1976 (Shaak Ti from the Star Wars prequels)
• Sara Beth Bareilles 1979 - Singer
• Jennifer Carpenter 1979
• Emily Browning 1988