TGIF! Friday, February 3, 2017

eclat \ey-KLAH\, noun:

1. Brilliance of success, reputation, etc.

2. Showy or elaborate display.

3. Acclamation; acclaim.

Eclat comes from the French eclat, "fragment, burst, splinter, flash," which relates to esclater, "to burst, break violently."

 

internest

• The concoon of blankets, pillows, duvets, and comfy things you gather around yourself to keep warm whilst spending long amounts of time on the internet.

1. Hey were's Jane tonight?

Oh she didn't want to leave her internest.

2. Tom knew that eating pizza in his internest was a bad idea, but it was just too warm and snuggly.

 

Trivia

What popular candy bar is considered a good luck charm by test-taking Japanese students?

• The Kit Kat bar, because its Japanese pronunciation, kitto katto, sounds very much like the phrase kitto katsu, which, roughly translated, means “win without fail.”

History

• 15th Amendment: was ratified, granting black men the right to vote (1870)
• 16th amendment: was ratified, authorizing income tax on a federal level in the US (1913)
• the day the music died: a plane crash killed rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "the Big Bopper" (1959)
• Luna 9: Soviet spacecraft became the first to soft-land on the moon (1966)

Birthdays

• Horace Greeley 1811
• Sidney Lanier 1842
• Gertrude Stein 1874
• Norman Rockwell 1894
• Alvar Aalto 1898
• James A. Michener 1907
• Simon Weil 1909
• Joey Bishop 1918
• Bibi Osterwald 1920
• John Fiedler 1925
• Art Arfons 1926
• Shelley Berman 1926
• Frankie Vaughn 1928
• Peggy Ann Garner 1932
• Jeremy Kemp (Edmund Walker) 1935
• Victor Buono 1938
• Emile Griffith 1938
• Fran Tarkenton 1940
• Angelo D'Aleo (Dion and The Belmonts) 1940
• Blythe Danner 1943
• Dennis Edwards 1943
• Eric Haydock (The Hollies) 1943
• Bridget Handley 1944
• Melanie (Safka) 1947
• Dave Davies (The Kinks) 1947
• Morgan Fairchild 1950
• Nathan Lane 1956
• Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth) 1956
• Thomas Calabro 1959
• Lol Tolhurst (Cure, Presence) 1959
• Keith Gordon 1961
• Michele Greene 1962
• Matraca Berg 1964
• Maura Tierney 1965
• Nick Hawkins (Big Audio) 1965
  Isla Lang Fisher 1976
• Grant Barry (Reel Big Fish) 1977