Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

acme \ACK-mee\, noun:
  • The highest point of something; the highest level or degree attainable.
Acme comes from Greek akme, point, highest point, culmination.
 
masternap
  • The act - either planned or unplanned - of falling to sleep after masturbating.
I was just going to rub one out, but I ended up masternapping for an hour.

History
  • Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail from southern Spain to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
  • Victor Emmanuel II: seized the Papal States from the French; later he became the first king of modern Italy (1870)
  • civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the entrance of African-American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; Meredith did end up attending (1962)
  • Battle of the Sexes tennis match: Billie Jean King won against Bobby Riggs, who had said women couldn't stand the pressure of the game; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)
Birthdays
  • Upton Sinclair 1878
  • Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton 1890
  • Chuck Dressen 1898
  • Elliot Nugent 1899
  • Peg Phillips 1918
  • Gogi Grant 1924
  • James Galanos 1924
  • Rachel Roberts 1927
  • Johnny Dankworth 1927
  • Donald A. Hall 1928
  • Dr. Joyce Brothers 1928
  • Anne Meara 1929
  • Peter Palmer 1931
  • Sophia Loren 1934
  • John (Chuck) Panozzo (Styx) 1947
  • Guy LaFleur 1951
  • imagebam.comCharlene Elizabeth Brinkeman (aka Brinke Stevens) 1954
  • Peter White 1954
  • Betsy Brantley 1955
  • Gary Cole 1957
  • Alannah Currie (Thompson Twins) 1957
  • Crispin Glover 1964
  • Kristen Johnston 1965
  • Gunnar Nelson 1967
  • Matthew Nelson 1967
  • Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden) 1968

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