Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

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fiducial \fi-DOO-shuhl\, adjective:
  1. Based on or having trust: fiducial dependence upon God.
  2. Accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
Fiducial comes from the Late Latin word fīdūciālis meaning "trust." 
 
Ambush TV 
  • When television shows you unpleasant images without any warning. Images that should not be shown at the lunch hour when people are eating. Things that you cannot 'unsee'.
Images of starving animals, random violence or people vomiting are unacceptable forms of Ambush TV.
 
History
  • US Naval Academy: was established in Annapolis, Maryland, as the Naval School (1845)
  • Outer Space Treaty: international agreement went into effect (1967)
  • Fiji: became independent of Britain (1970)
  • London Bridge: (re)opens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona (1971)
  • Spiro Agnew: Richard Nixon's vice president resigned after being charged with tax evasion (1973)
Birthdays
  • Giuseppe Verdi 1813
  • Helen Hayes 1900
  • Johnny Green 1908
  • Ivory Joe Hunter 1914
  • Thelonious Monk 1917
  • Louis Gottlieb 1923
  • James Clavell 1924
  • Edward D. Wood, Jr. 1924
  • Paul Kruger (South Africa) 1925
  • Richard Jaeckel 1926
  • Harold Pinter 1930
  • Bruce Devlin 1937
  • Dallas Smith 1941
  • Peter Coyote 1942
  • Joanna Shimkus 1944
  • Ben Vereen 1946
  • John Prine 1946
  • Charles Dance 1946
  • Pete Mahovalich 1948
  • Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) 1948
  • Jessica Harper 1949
  • Midge (James) Ure 1953
  • David Lee Roth (Van Halen) 1955 
  • Tanya Tucker 1958
  • Kirsty MacColl 1959
  • Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1961
  • Jim Glennie (James) 1963
  • Rebecca Pidgeon 1965
  • Bai Ling 1966
  • Mike Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls) 1967
  • Brett Favre (NFL) 1969
  • Dean Roland (Collective Soul) 1972
  • Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974 
  • Jodi Lyn O'Keefe 1978
  • Mya Harrison 1979


 
  

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