Friday, July 14, 2017

usufruct \YOO-zoo-fruhkt\, noun:

• The right to use the property of another as long as it isn't damaged.

Usufruct is a legal term derived from two Latin roots, usu-, "use," and fruct, "fruit."

 

Sexting

• The unauthorized, non-maritime use of sextants in our schools.

"My friend Katy said we were going to drive up to Mile Rise, because some older boys wanted to determine its exact position relative to the moon. I didn't want to tell my mom what we were doing, because she doesn't approve of sexting, so I told her I was staying over at Katy's house."

 

History

• Sedition Act: Congress passed a law prohibiting publishing false, scandalous or malicious writing against the US government (1798)
• the Matterhorn: the Swiss-Italian Alp was first scaled, by British mountaineer Edward Whymper (1865) 
• Billy the Kid: the 21-year-old outlaw was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico (1881)
• Sacco and Vanzetti: the two infamous anarchists were convicted of murder and sentenced to death (1921)
• Mariner 4: spacecraft performed the first flyby of another planet and sent back the first pictures of the surface of Mars (1965)
• large denominations of US currency: were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve System, leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating currency (1969)

Birthdays

• Andrea del Sarto 1486
• Emmeline Pankhurst 1858
• Florence Bascom 1862
• William Leefe Robinson 1895
• Ken Murray 1903
• Irving Stone 1903
• Gloria Stuart 1910
• William Hanna 1910
• Terry-Thomas 1911
• Woody Guthrie 1912
• Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913 

  
• Douglas Edwards 1917
• Ingmar Bergman 1918
• Arthur Laurents 1918 - Playwright ("West Side Story," "Gypsy")
• Frances Lear 1923
• Dale Robertson 1923
• Harry Dean Stanton 1926 - Actor
• John Chancellor 1927
• Nancy Olson 1928
• Polly Bergen 1930 - Actress, singer
• Del Reeves 1932
• Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier 1932 - Football player
• Karel Gott 1939
• Spencer Davis 1941
• Vincent Pastore 1946 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Chris Cross 1952
• Jerry Houser 1952
• Eric Laneuville 1952
• Jane Lynch 1960 - Actress ("Glee")
• Jackie Earle Haley 1961
• Darrelle Revis 1961 - Actor
• Matthew Fox 1966 - Actor ("Lost", "Party of Five")
• Tonya Donelly 1966 - Musician (Belly)
• Missy Gold 1970 - Actress
• Tameka Cottle 1975 - (Xscape)
• Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez) 1975 - Rapper/singer (Black Eyed Peas)
• Scott Porter 1979 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")