Sunday, October 08, 2017

Sunday, October 8, 2017

pica \PAHY-kuh\, noun:
1. An abnormal appetite or craving for substances that are not fit to eat.
2. A 12-point type of a size between small pica and English.
3. A brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
4. A 12-point type, widely used for typewriters, having 10 characters to the inch.
Pica is from the Middle Latin meaning "magpie," probably translating Greek kissa, "magpie, jay," also "false appetite."
 
carnevoyeur
  • A vegetarian who derives satisfaction from watching other people eat meat or hearing about the eating of meat.
Amy says she's a vegetarian, but she also professes her love for Dinty Moore beef stew and keeps telling me I should go eat Korean Fried Chicken. She's such a carnevoyeur

Trivia
How many Star Wars performers appeared in all seven films in the popular sci-fi adventure series?
  • Only two. The diminutive Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2, and Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO.
History
  • Empress Myeongseong: the last empress of Korea was assassinated by the Japanese (1895)
  • perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
  • Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
  • water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
  • Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
  • Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)
Birthdays
  • Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
  • Juan Peron 1895
  • Billy Conn 1917
  • Rona Barrett 1936
  • Fred Stolle 1938
  • Paul Hogan 1939
  • David Carradine 1940
  • Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
  • Jesse Jackson 1941
  • George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
  • Buzz Clifford 1942
  • R.L. Stine 1943
  • Chevy Chase 1943
  • Susan Raye 1944
  • Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
  • Sarah Purcell 1948
  • Brian Glenwright 1949
  • Sigourney Weaver 1949
  • Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
  • Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
  • Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
  • Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
  • Michael Dudikoff 1954
  • Darrell Hammond 1955
  • Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
  • Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
  • Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
  • C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
  • Teddy Riley 1966
  • Emily Proctor 1968
  • Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan") 
  • Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
  • Kristanna Loken 1979
  • Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
  • Nick Cannon 1980
  • Angus T. Jones 1993

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