Monday, August 07, 2017

Monday, August 7, 2017

nervure \NUR-vyoor\, noun:
  • A vein, as of a leaf or the wing of an insect.
Nervure is French for "rib."
 
chiptease
  • When you buy a bag of chips thinking that it will be full of chips but when you open the bag it's barely full.
I bought a bag of chips out of the vending machine and there was only 5 chips in the bag, what a Chiptease!

History
  • Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
  • Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
  • Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
  • Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the to the Soviet Union (1987)
  • Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
  • US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)
Birthdays
  • Nathaniel Greene 1742
  • Mata Hari 1876
  • Billie Burke 1884
  • Rudolf Bunche 1904
  • Warren Covington 1921
  • Felice Bryant 1925
  • Stan Freberg 1926
  • "The Amazing" James Randi 1928
  • Magic Slim 1937
  • Ron Holden 1939
  • Verna Bloom 1939
  • B.J. Thomas 1942
  • Garrison Keillor 1942
  • Lana Cantrell 1943
  • John Glover 1944
  • David Rasche 1944
  • Rodney Crowell 1950
  • Andy Fraser (Free) 1952
  • Caroline Aaron 1952
  • Wayne Knight 1955
  • Alberto Salazar 1958
  • Bruce Dickinson 1958 (Iron Maiden)
  • David Duchovny 1960 (X-Files)
  • DeLane Matthews 1961
  • Marcus Roberts 1963
  • Harold Perrineau 1963 - Actor ("Lost") 
  • Raul Malo (The Mavericks) 1965
  • Charlotte Lewis 1967
  • Sydney Penny 1971
  • Charlize Theron 1975 (Aeon Flux)
  • Sydney Crosby 1987

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