Saturday, January 28, 2017

Saturday, January 28, 2017

rakish \REY-kish\, adjective:
1. Smart; jaunty; dashing.
2. Of a vessel: having an appearance suggesting speed.
3. Like a rake; dissolute: rakish behavior.
Rakish enters the English lexicon in the 1700s, but rake, as in "immoral person," goes back further, possibly descended from the Middle English rakel, "headstrong."
 
Traffuck
  • Peak hour traffic or any general traffic which slows you down.
Im late for work and im stuck in traffuck.


Holidays
  • Lunar New Year: aka Chinese New Year —the second new moon after the winter solstice — Year of the Serpent.


History 

  • Diet of Worms: general assembly of the Holy Roman Empire began; it ended four months later with Martin Luther being declared an outlaw (1521)
  • serendipity: word was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann (1754)
  • Carnegie Institute: Andrew Carnegie established this private scientific research foundation after the US government refused his gift of $10 million to finance the advancement of knowledge (1902)
  • "We Are the World": Michael Jackson/Lionel Richie song that raised millions for famine relief in Africa was recorded by 45 popular performers (1985)
  • Element 114: scientists announced the creation of the synthetic radioactive chemical element (1999)
Birthdays
  • Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841
  • Jose Marti 1853
  • William Seward Burroughs 1857
  • Artur Rubinstein 1889
  • Jackson Pollock 1912
  • Jim Bryan 1927
  • Acker Bilk 1927
  • Ronnie Scott 1927
  • Acker (Bernard) Bilk 1929
  • Susan Sontag 1933
  • Nicholas Pryor 1935
  • Alan Alda 1936
  • Bill Phillips 1938
  • John Beck 1943
  • Susan Howard 1943
  • Dick Taylor (The Pretty Things) 1943
  • Brian Keenan 1944
  • Marthe Keller 1945
  • Barbi Benton 1950
  • Dave Sharp (The Alarm) 1959
  • Sam Phillips 1962
  • Dan Spitz 1964 (Anthrax)
  • Greg Cook (Ricochet) 1965
  • Rakim 1968
  • Sara McLachlan 1968
  • DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) 1968
  • Katherine Morris 1969
  • Joey Fatone Jr. ('N Sync) 1977
  • Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) 1980
  • Elijah Wood 1981

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