Thursday, January 24, 2019

Thursday, January 24, 2019

also-ran \AWL-soh-ran\, noun:
  1. Informal. A person who loses a contest, election, or other competition.
  2. Sports. A. (In a race) a contestant who fails to win or to place among the first three finishers. B. An athlete or team whose performance in competition is rarely, if ever, a winning or near-winning one.
  3. Informal. A person who attains little or no success: For every great artist there are a thousand also-rans.
Also-ran was first used in the late 1800s to refer to the losing horse in a horse race. The term was applied more broadly to the loser of any contest shortly thereafter.
 
Te'oing
  • The act of hugging an imaginary person.
Lacey: Yo, McCarron, did you see Te'o trying to tackle me? It looked more like he was hugging an imaginary girlfriend.
McCarron: Yeah man, he was totally Te'oing

History
  • Caligula: Roman emperor who had a reputation for freakish behavior was assassinated by his Praetorian Guards (41)
  • gold rush: a gold nugget was found at Sutter's Mill in northern California; President Polk announced the find in December and the gold rush began (1848)
  • Robert Baden-Powell: organized the first Boy Scout troop in England (1908)
  • Eskimo Pie: chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar was patented by Christian K. Nelson; it aimed to satisfy cravings for ice cream and chocolate bars at once (1922)
  • St. Petersburg: Russian city was renamed Leningrad three days after Lenin's death (1924)
  • Shoichi Yokoi: Japanese soldier was discovered hiding on Guam, 28 years after American forces reconquered the island in the Battle of Guam (1972)
  • Department of Homeland Security: began operations, headed by Tom Ridge (2003)
Birthdays
  • Hadrian (Roman emperor) AD 76
  • Frederick the Great (Prussia) 1712
  • Edith Wharton (Jones) 1862
  • Ann Todd 1909
  • John Beasley Brickhouse 1916
  • Ernest Borgnine 1917
  • Oral Roberts 1918
  • Maria Tallchief 1925
  • Marvin Kaplan 1927
  • Desmond Morris 1928
  • Doug Kershaw 1936
  • Jack Scott (Scafone) 1936
  • Bobby Scott 1937
  • Ray Stevens 1939
  • Neil Diamond 1941
  • Aaron Neville 1941
  • Julie Gregg 1944
  • Warren Zevon 1947
  • John Belushi 1949
  • Becky Hobbs 1950
  • Michael Ontkean 1950
  • Yakov Smirnoff 1951
  • Elaine Giftos 1954
  • Julian Holland (Squeeze) 1958
  • Nastassja Kinski 1961
  • Keech Rainwater (Lonestar) 1963
  • John Myung (Dream Theater) 1967
  • Mary Lou Retton 1968
  • Pat "Sleepy" Brown (Society of Soul) 1970
  • Tatyana Ali 1979
  • Nicole Marie Lenz 1980 Playmate
  • Mischa Barton 1986

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