Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

handsel \HAN-suhl\, noun:
  1. First encounter with or use of something taken as a token of what will follow.
  2. A gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes.
  3. A first installment of payment.
Handsel is a venerable English word, literally consisting of "hand" and an early word for "gift."
 
JFC
  • Acronym for Jesus Fucking Christ
Matt: Dude, Conny fucked another random guy today!
Brad: JFC!


History
  • Caracas: Captain Diego de Losada founded Venezuela's capital, then known as Santiago de Leon de Caracas (1567)
  • Henry IV of France: embraced Roman Catholicism for the second time; he had abandoned Protestantism in order to win Paris (1593)
  • General of the Army: Ulysses S. Grant became the first officer to hold the US army's highest rank (1866)
  • Bikini Atoll: America tested the first underwater atomic bomb (1946)
  • Rock band YES released their debut album (1969) 
    test-tube baby: Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England (1978)
  • Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace: at the White House, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein agreed to end their official state of war (1994)
Birthdays
  • Thomas Eakins 1844
  • Morris Raphel Cohen 1880
  • Walter Brennan 1894
  • Eric Hoffer 1902
  • Jack Gilford 1907
  • Estelle Getty 1924
  • Stanley Dancer 1927
  • Don Ellis 1934
  • Barbara Harris 1935
  • John Pennel 1940
  • Manuel Charlton (Nazareth) 1941
  • Janet Margolin 1943
  • Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) 1943
  • Donna Theodore 1945
  • Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) 1951
  • Walter Payton (NFL) 1954
  • Iman 1955
  • Ray Billingsley 1957
  • Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) 1958
  • Marty Brown 1965
  • Illeana Douglas 1965
  • Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")
  • Brad Renfro 1982

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