Thursday, November 16, 2017

Thursday, November 16, 2017

opuscule \oh-PUHS-kyool\, noun:
  1. A small or minor work.
  2. A literary or musical work of small size.
Opuscule is from the Latin roots opus meaning “word” and cule which is a suffix that implies a diminutive version, as in molecule and fascicle. 
 
Void the Warranty
  • To perform an activity in an extreme fashion.
"you're hitting the bars tonight? Let's void the warranty!"
 
"I voided her warranty all night long"

History
  • Jadwiga: blonde blue-eyed beauty became "king" of Poland (1384)
  • Battle of Cajamarca: conquistador Francisco Pizarro massacred thousands of Incas in a surprise attack in Peru, and captured the emperor Atahualpa (1532)
  • Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac (1764)
  • Federal Reserve System formally opens in the US (1914)
  • US-USSR relations: FDR extended formal diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union (1933)
  • Sound of Music: the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway (1959)
  • Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit (1973)
Birthdays 
  • Burgess Meredith 1908
  • Daws Butler 1916
  • Clu Gulager 1928
  • Hubert Sumlin 1931
  • Elizabeth Drew 1935
  • Joanna Pettet 1944
  • Steve Railsback 1948
  • David Leisure 1950
  • Mani (The Stone Roses) 1962
  • Zina Garrison-Jackson 1963
  • Dwight Gooden (MLB) 1964
  • Lisa Bonet 1967
  • Suzi Simpson 1968 - from Athens Greece, playmate (Jan, 1992)
  • Tammy Lauren 1969
  • Martha Plimpton 1970
  • Oksana Baiul 1977



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