Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

nimbus, noun [nim-buh s] 
  1. a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing: The candidate was encompassed with a nimbus of fame.
  2. Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
ORIGIN: Latin nimbus and nebula (“cloud, mist”) both derive from a complicated Proto-Indo-European root enebh- or nebh- (with many variations, e.g., nembh-) “cloud, fog, mist.” A simple variant of this root, nebh-, is the source of Greek néphos “cloud,” Slavic (Polish) niebo “sky, heaven,” and Hittite nebis “sky, heaven.” The variant nembh- is the source of Latin nimbus “violent rainstorm, thundercloud,” but also “cloud (in general)” and finally “bright cloud that envelops a deity appearing to mortals,” which in Christian usage comes to mean “saint’s halo or aureole.” Nimbus entered English in the early 17th century. 

Freudian Spell Check
  • When spell check changes your word to the wrong word, but the wrong word is actually more appropriate.
I meant to text my friend that she should go to the U2 concert with me because it would be a "great" time. Spell check changed it to "grey" time. That Freudian Spell Check is pretty smart.



History
  • 1057 - Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan.
  • 1848 - The dental chair was patented by M. Waldo Hanchett.
  • 1911 - The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company.
  • 1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
  • 1944 - The Allied forces of World War II landed in southern France.
  • 1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
  • 1947 - India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British about 200 years.
  • 1961 - East German workers began construction of the Berlin Wall.
  • 2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
Birthdays
  • Napoleon Bonaparte 1769
  • Sir Walter Scott 1771
  • Ethel Barrymore 1879
  • Edna Ferber 1887
  • T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") 1888
  • Bill Baird 1904
  • Hugo Winterhalter 1909
  • Julia Child 1912
  • Wendy Hiller 1912
  • Huntz Hall 1919
  • Rose-Marie 1923
  • Robert Bolt 1924
  • Phyllis Schlafly 1924
  • Rose Maddox 1925
  • Mike Connors 1925
  • Oscar Peterson 1925
  • Bill Pinkney (The Drifters) 1925
  • Nicolas Roeg 1928
  • Janice Rule 1931
  • Abby Dalton 1932
  • Lori Nelson 1933
  • Bobby Helms 1933
  • Bobby Byrd 1934
  • Jim Dale 1935
  • Vernon Jordan 1935
  • Pat Priest 1936
  • Stephen Breyer 1938
  • Don Rich 1941
  • Pete York (Spencer Davis Group) 1942
  • Linda Ellerbee 1944
  • Jill Haworth 1945
  • Jimmy Webb 1946
  • Tom Johnston 1948 - Musician (Doobie Brothers)
  • Tess Harper 1950
  • Princess Anne (England) 1950
  • Larry Mathews 1955
  • Zeljko Ivanek 1957
  • Matt Johnson (The The) 1961
  • Debi Mazar 1964
  • Angela Rae (Wild Horses) 1966
  • MCA (The Beastie Boys) 1967
  • Debra Messing 1968
  • Anthony Anderson 1970
  • Ben Affleck 1972
  • Michael Graham (Boyzone) 1972
  • Natasha Henstridge 1974
    Jennifer Lawrence 1990



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