Thursday, May 11, 2017

irenic \eye-REN-ik; -REE-nik\, adjective:

• Tending to promote peace; conciliatory.

Irenic comes from Greek eirenikos, from eirene, "peace."

powerpuff presentation

• A powerpoint presentation containing lots of flashy animations, cool pictures, and all sorts of other snazzy gimmics, but almost entirely lacking in any real substance.

Didn't the VP's presentation just blow you away? I loved the falling apples turning into dollar bills.

But what was the point?

Dunno, it was definitely a powerpuff presentation.

History

• Minnesota: became the 32nd US state; its name is Sioux for "cloudy water" (1858)
• CARE package: first ones arrived in Le Havre, France; they cost $10 each and contained a variety of food products (1946)
• Israel: was admitted to the United Nations (1949)
• Deep Blue: IBM's supercomputer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in game 6 of their chess tournament (1997)
• euro: the currency's first coin was struck in a French mint (1998)

Birthdays 

• Irving Berlin 1888 - Composer, lyricist
• Martha Graham 1894 - Dancer, choreographer
• William Grant Still 1895 - Classical composer
• Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) 1904 - Surrealist painter
• Phil Silvers 1912 - Entertainer, comedy actor ("The Phil Silvers Show"), known as "The King of Chutzpah"
• Foster Brooks 1912 - Actor, comedian
• Doodles Weaver (Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver) 1914 - Actor, comedian
• Denver Dell Pyle 1920 - Actor
• Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor
• Stanley Elkin 1930 - Novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
• Dick Garcia 1938 - Musician
• Doug McClure 1938 - Actor
• Eric Burdon 1941 - Musician (The Animals)
• Les Chadwick 1943 - Musician (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
• Dr. Robert Jarvik 1946 - Scientist, researcher, entrepreneur
• Frances Fisher 1952 - Actress ("Titanic," "Unforgiven")
• Shohreh Adhdashloo 1952 - Actress
• Boyd Gaines 1953 - Actor
• Mark Herndon 1955 - Musician (Alabama)
• J.J. Jeczalik 1955 - Musician (Art of Noise)
• Martha Quinn 1959 - One of the original video jockeys on MTV
• Natasha Richardson 1963 - Actress
• Jeffrey Donovan 1968 - Actor ("Burn Notice")
• Austin O'Brien 1980 - Actor
• Jonathan Jackson 1982 - Actor
• Cory Monteith 1982 - Actor ("Glee")
• Matt Leinart 1983 - Football player