Tuesday, June 27, 2017

attenuate \uh-TEN-yoo-eyt\, verb:

1. To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value

2. To make thin; make slender or fine.

3. In medicine, to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.

4. In electronics, to decrease the amplitude of an electronic signal.

Attenuate is based on the Latin attenuāre, "to thin, reduce."

 

Macaroni and Sneeze

• A regular for lunch at institutions such as public schools, hospitals (esp. mental), and the military/boot camp. Any kind of pasta dish consisting of ingredients/prepared by individuals you are unsure of.

The lunch lady had something hanging from her nose on Monday, the same day we had Macaroni and Sneeze...

History

• Joseph Smith: the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was killed by an anti-Mormon mob in Illinois (1844)
• Joshua Slocum: Canadian adventurer landed at Newport, Rhode Island, becoming the first to circumnavigate the world on his own (1898)
• Newbery Medal: was first awarded, to Hendrik Willem van Loon for The Story of Mankind (1922)
• paintball: the first game was played, in New Hampshire (1981)
• US National Do Not Call Registry: opened for business; almost ¾ of a million phone numbers were signed up on its first day in a stand against unwanted telemarketing (2003)

Birthdays

• Louis XII (France) 1462
• Charles XII (Sweden) 1682
• Charles Stewart Parnell 1846
• Mildred J. Hill 1859

  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872
• Helen Keller 1880
• John McIntire (actor) 1907
• Audrey Christie 1911
• Willie Mosconi 1913
• Ben Homer 1917
• I.A.L. Diamond 1920
• Elmo Hope 1923
• Rosalie Allen 1924
• Jerome ‘Doc’ Pomus 1925
• Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan 1927
• H. Ross Perot 1930
• Charles Bronfman 1931
• Anna Moffo 1934
• Shirley Anne Field 1938
• Sandra Smith 1940
• Frank Mills 1942
• Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) 1944
• Norma Kamili 1945
• Julia Duffy 1951
• Isabelle Adjani 1955
• Lorrie Morgan 1959
• Brian Dillinger 1960
  J. J. Abrams 1966
• Tobey Maguire 1975
• Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer) 1976
• Madylin Sweeten 1991
  Chandler Riggs (TWD) 1999