Saturday, October 07, 2017

Saturday, October 7, 2017

vesuvian \vuh-SOO-vee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Volcanic; of, pertaining to, or resembling Mount Vesuvius.
noun:
1. A type of match formerly used for lighting cigars; fusee.
Vesuvian derives from the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed the town of Pompeii.
 
Text out
  • To weasel out of a prior engagement by text message. Not to be confused with text message breakup.
Man, I can't bear the thought of going to dinner with Jane again, so I think I am going to text out.

History 
  • Battle of Lepanto: victory of Christians over Ottoman Empire (1571)
  • Cats: long-running musical based on T.S. Eliot's poems opened on Broadway (1982)
  • Achille Lauro: Italian ship was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists; Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound passenger, was killed the next day (1985)
  • gubernatorial recall: California governor Gray Davis was replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the state's first gubernatorial recall election (2003)
Birthdays
  • James Whitcomb Riley 1853
  • Niels Bohr 1885
  • Henry Wallace 1888
  • Andy Devine 1905
  • Vaughn Monroe 1911
  • Jo (Jonathan) Jones 1911
  • Alfred Drake 1914
  • June Allyson 1917
  • Martha Stewart (Haworth) 1922
  • Al Martino 1927
  • R.D. Laing 1927
  • Diana Lynn 1927
  • Desmond Tutu (South Africa) 1931
  • Imamu Amiri Baraka 1934
  • Thomas Keneally 1935
  • Charles Dutoit 1936
  • Gary Bergman 1938
  • Martin Murray (Honeycombs) 1941
  • Oliver North 1943
  • Kevin Godley (10cc, Godley & Creme) 1945
  • David Hope (Kansas) 1949
  • Kiernan Kane (The O'Kanes) 1949
  • John Cougar Mellencamp 1951
  • Jacques Richard 1952
  • Vladimir Putin 1952 - Russian dictator
  • Christopher Norris 1953
  • Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) 1953
  • Yo-Yo Ma 1955
  • Michael W. Smith 1957
  • Simon Cowell 1959 - Judge on "American Idol" 
  • Judy Landers 1961
  • Dale Watson 1962
  • Toni Braxton 1968
  • Thom York (Radiohead) 1968
  • Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy) 1969
  • Nicole Air Parker 1970
  • Charles Woodson 1976

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