Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

weald \weeld\, noun:
1. Wooded or uncultivated country.
2. A region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
Related to the word wild, weald comes from the Old English word weald meaning “forest.”
 
Monitor Shopping
  • To look at all the things on a retail site without making a purchase. You can look but you can't buy.
A: Ay, whatcha doing?
B: Monitor shopping on Asos.
A: Had to pay rent?
B: Yup.


History
  • Encyclopædia Britannica: first "number," or pamphlet, was offered for sale in Edinburgh for sixpence (1768)
  • Halifax: a French munitions vessel exploded, killing about 1,800 people, injuring some 9,000 more (one-fifth of the population), and destroying the northern part of Nova Scotia's capital (1917)
  • Irish Free State: precursor to today's Republic of Ireland was formed (1922)
  • Ulysses: a United States judge ruled that James Joyce's novel, in which characters correspond to Homeric figures, was not obscene (1933)
  • Mars Global Surveyor: NASA released pictures of the red planet that seemed to show the recent presence of water (2006)
Birthdays
  • Henry VI (England) 1421
  • William S. Hart 1870
  • Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886
  • Osbert Sitwell 1892
  • Ira Gershwin 1896
  • Alfred Eisenstadt 1898
  • Agnes Moorehead 1906
  • Dave Brubeck 1920
  • Wally Cox 1924
  • David Ossman 1936
  • Helen Cornelius 1941
  • Len Barry 1942
  • Jonathan King 1944
  • James Naughton 1945
  • Tom Hulce 1953
  • Kin Shriner 1953
  • Wil Shriner 1953
  • JoBeth Williams 1953
  • Miles Chapin 1954
  • Chris Stamey (dB's) 1954
  • Tish Hinojosa 1955
  • Steven Wright 1955
  • Rick Buckler (The Jam) 1955
  • Bill Lloyd (Foster and Lloyd) 1955
  • Randy Rhoads 1956
  • Peter Buck (R.E.M.) 1956
  • Janine Turner 1962
  • Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl) 1962
  • Ulf Ekberg (Ace of Base) 1970
  • Ryan White 1971
  • Lindsay Price 1976 (actress)


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