chelonian \ki-LOH-nee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Belonging or pertaining to the order Chelonia, comprising the turtles.noun:1. A turtle.
Chelonian comes from the Greek word for turtle, chelṓn.
prolepsis \proh-LEP-sis\, noun:
- Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- the assigning of a person, event, etc., to a period earlier than the actual one; the representation of something in the future as if it already existed or had occurred; prochronism.
- the use of a descriptive word in anticipation of its becoming applicable.
- a fundamental conception or assumption in Epicureanism or Stoicism arising spontaneously in the mind without conscious reflection; thought provoked by sense perception.
- Pathology. the return of an attack of a periodic disease or of a paroxysm before the expected time or at progressively shorter intervals.
Prolepsis came to English in the mid-1400s from the Ancient Greek prolambanein literally meaning "to take before."
blogosfear
- Fear of being talked about or becoming a character in someone's blog.
When she screwed her friend, she was overwhelmed with blogosfear thinking her criminality would be published the next day in his very popular blog.
History
- Telephone: the first long-distance call was made from Boston to New York (1884)
- Nikita Khrushchev: became prime minister of the Soviet Union (1958)
- Good Friday Earthquake: North America's most powerful earthquake struck Alaska, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale; it killed over 100 and triggered devastating tsunamis (1964)
- Tenerife crash: the world's worst aviation disaster took place when two 747 airliners collided on Tenerife, Canary Islands (1977)
- Viagra: was approved by the FDA for erectile dysfunction (1998)
Birthdays
- Louis XVII 1785
- Alfred Vigny 1797
- Nathaniel Currier 1813
- William Conrad Rontgen 1845
- Sir Henry Royce 1863
- Patty Smith Hill 1868
- Edward Steichen 1879
- Thorne Smith 1892
- Gloria Swanson 1899
- Snooky Lanson 1914
- Richard Denning 1914
- Robert "Junior" Lockwood 1915 - Blues guitarist
- Richard Hayman 1920
- Sarah Vaughan 1924
- Harold Nicholas 1924
- Anthony Lewis 1927 - Newspaper columnist
- Burt Collins 1931
- David Janssen 1931
- Arthur Mitchell 1934 - Dance company director
- Julian Glover 1935 - Actor
- Jerry Lacy 1936 - Actor
- Judy Carne 1939
- Cale Yarborough 1939
- Austin Pendleton 1940 - Actor
- Tom Sullivan 1947
- Tony Banks 1950 - Musician (Genesis)
- Maria Schneider 1952 - Actress
- Annemarie Moser-Proell 1953
- Andrew Farris 1959 - Musician (INXS)
- Xuxa (Maria da Graça Meneghel) 1963 - Singer, actress
- Quentin Tarantino 1963 - hack director
- Derrick McKenzie 1964 - Musician (Jamiroquai)
- Talisa Soto 1967 - Actress
- Mariah Carey 1970 - Singer
- Elizabeth Mitchell (Elizabeth Joanna Robertson) 1970 - Actress ("Lost", "V")
- Brendan Hill 1970 - Musician (Blues Travelers)
- Nathan Fillion 1971 - Actore ("Firefly")
- Fergie (Stacy Ann Ferguson) 1975 - Singer (Black Eyed Peas)
- Emily Ann Lloyd 1983 - Actress
- Brenda Song 1988 - Actress
- Taylor Atelian 1995 - Actress ("According to Jim")
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