Friday, April 19, 2019

plethoric \ple-THAWR-ik, -THOR-, PLETH-uh-rik\, adjective:

1. overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.

2. of, pertaining to, or characterized by plethora.

Plethoric came to English in the late 1300s from the Greek plethore meaning "fullness."

 

Update Day

• The one day, usually every month or so, where you finally crack, and update Adobe, Itunes, Steam, and a bunch of other crap all day. Basically renders your computer useless if you are using anything but solitaire.

God dammit! iTunes wants me too update! And Steam too! I guess it is update day again.

Trivia
How did the passion flower get its name?

• From its symbolic connection to the passion of Christ, which was first noted in the 16th century by Spanish missionaries in South America. They believed the flower’s 10 petals and sepals represented the 10 disciples at the crucifixion; its three prominent stigmas, the nails used to crucify Jesus; its five red stamens, the wounds; and its showy corona of filaments, the crown of thorns.

Holiday

• Good Friday: Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary.

• Passover (begins at sundown)

History

• "shot heard 'round the world": was fired, starting the American Revolution (1775)
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: the Jews began an armed resistance against the Nazis (1943)
• "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away": General Douglas MacArthur bid farewell to Congress (1951)
• The Simpsons: the animated dysfunctional family debuted on The Tracy Ullman Show (1987)
• Oklahoma City Bombing: truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 (1995)

Birthdays

• David Ricardo 1772 - Economist, author
• Ole Evinrude 1877
• Eliot Ness 1903
• Tommy Benford 1905 - Musician (Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers)
• Frank Fontaine 1920
• Kenneth Battelle 1927
• Don Barbour 1927 - Singer (The Four Freshmen)
• Alexis Korner 1928 - Musician, singer
• Hugh O'Brian 1930 - Actor ("The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp")
• Alex Webster 1931 - Football player
• Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jane Palmer) 1932 - Actress ("It Takes a Thief")
• Dick Sargent 1933 - Actor ("Bewitched", "Fantasy Island")
• Dickie Goodman (Richard Dorian Goodman) 1934 - Entertainer (Buchanan and Goodman)
• Dudley Moore 1935 - Actor ("Arthur", "Bedazzled")
• Wilfried Martens 1936 - Belgium Prime Minister
• Elinor Donahue 1937 - Actress ("Father Knows Best", "The Andy Griffith Show", "Pretty Woman")
• Bobby Russell 1941
• Alan Price 1942 - Musician (Alan Price Combo, The Animals)
• Larry (Hilario) Ramos Jr. 1942 - Musician, singer (The Association)
• Czeslaw Bartkowski 1943 - Jazz composer, musician
• Eve Graham 1943 - Musician (The New Seekers)
• Mark "Flo" Volman 1944 - Musician (Crossfires, Phlorescent Leech and Eddy, Turtles, Nightriders)
• Tim Curry 1946 - Actor ("Stephen King’s It", "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Legend")
• Paloma Picasso 1949
• Lynn Powis 1949 - Hockey player
• Tony Plana 1952 - Actor ("Ugly Betty")
• Sue Barker 1956 - Tennis player
• Paul Mario Day 1956 - Musician (the original lead vocalist of Iron Maiden from 1975 to 1976)
• Al Unser, Jr. 1962
• Suge Knight 1965 - Record company executive (Tha Row)
• Ashley Judd 1968 - Actress
• Bekka Bramlett 1968
• Luis Miguel (Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri) 1970 - Singer
• James Franco 1978 - Actor ("Milk", "Spider-Man")
• Kate Hudson 1979 - Actress
• Hayden Christensen 1981 - Actor ("Life as a House", "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones", "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith")
• Catalina Sandino Moreno 1981 - Actress
• Troy Polamalu 1981 - Football player
• Courtland Mead 1987
• Maria Sharapova 1987 - Tennis player

 

 

 

           

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