Friday, July 28, 2017

Friday, July 28, 2017

deadpan \DED-pan\, adjective:
1. Marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment.
2. Displaying no emotional or personal involvement.
Deadpan is a coinage from the 1930s combining "dead" and the sense of "pan" referring to the head or face.
 
Sports Cry
  • The Permissible act of a sports fan or athlete, usually a male, shedding a quiet tear in celebration of their team's accomplishments. Also acceptable at the end of a classic sports motion picture. Only one episode of sports crying is acceptable per situation.
I sports cry every time at the end of 'Angels in the Outfield'.

History 
  • Maximilien Robespierre: Reign of Terror leader was guillotined in Paris during the French Revolution (1794)
  • Peru: declared independence from Spain (1821)
  • 14th Amendment: granted full citizenship to former US slaves; introduced new civil rights safeguards, due process, equal protection (1868)
  • Austria-Hungary: declared war on Serbia, precipitating World War I (1914)
  • Kennewick Man: prehistoric remains were discovered on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, sparking a debate between scientists and Native Americans (1996)
  • IRA: ended its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland in favor of "exclusively peaceful means" (2005)
Birthdays
  • Beatrix Potter 1866
  • Joe E. Brown 1891
  • Rudy Vallee 1901
  • Richard Rogers 1902
  • Cameron Dragon 1914
  • Charles Hard Townes 1915
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929
  • Darryl Hickman 1931
  • Jacques d'Amboise 1934
  • Peter Duchin 1937
  • George Cummings 1938 - Musician (Dr. Hook)
  • Phil Proctor 1940
  • Mike Bloomfield 1944
  • Jim Davis 1945
  • Richard Wright 1945 - Musician (Pink Floyd)
  • Jonathan Edwards 1946 - Singer
  • Linda Kelsey 1946
  • Barbara Ferrell 1947
  • Sally Struthers 1948
  • Georgia Bright Engel 1948
  • Peter Doyle 1949 - Musician (The New Seekers)
  • Simon Kirke 1949 - Musician (Bad Company, Free)
  • Terry Fox 1958
  • Lori Loughlin 1964
  • Elizabeth Berkley 1972
  • Afroman 1974

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