Saturday, April 27, 2019

verisimilitude \ver-uh-si-MIL-i-tood, -tyood\, noun:

1. the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
2. something, as an assertion, having merely the appearance of truth.

Verisimilitude comes from the Latin roots vērum + similis literally meaning "likeness to truth."

 

vsre

• very short reply expected, ie you can answer this with "yes", "no", "sounds good" etc.

We on for tonight?

VSRE

"Yes"

History

• Battle of Dunbar: Scots were massacred by the English as the Wars of Scottish Independence began (1296)
• Ferdinand Magellan: the leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe was killed by Philippine natives in the Battle of Mactan (1521)
• Paradise Lost: John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright for his epic poem for £10 (1667)
• SS Sultana: the worst maritime disaster in US history occurred when the wooden steamboat exploded and sank on the Mississippi near Memphis, killing up to 1,800 former Union POWs recently released from Confederate prison camps (1865)

Birthdays

• Edward Gibbon 1737 - Historian, author
• Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1759 - Author
• Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse 1791 - Inventor (electromagnetic telegraph)
• Ulysses S. Grant 1822 - 18th U.S. President, Lt. General in command of all Union armies during the U.S. Civil War, nickname: Hero of Appomattox
• Edward Whymper 1840 - Climber, explorer, illlustrator
• Wallace Hume 1896 - Chemist, inventor, credited with invention of nylon
• Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby 1896 - Baseball player
• Walter Lantz 1900 - Animator, creator of Woody Woodpecker
• Enos (Bradsher) "Country" Slaughter 1916 - Baseball player
• Jack Klugman 1922 - Actor ("The Odd Couple", "Quincy, M.E.")
• Coretta Scott King 1927 - Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King
• Chuck Knox 1932 - Football coach
• Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin Kasem) 1932 - Radio announcer, DJ, host ("American Top 40), character voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo, actor ("Hawaii Five-O")
• Maxine Brown 1932 - Musician (The Browns)
• Calvin Newborn 1933 - Jazz/blues guitarist, brother of pianist Phineas Newborn Jr.
• Anouk Aimee (Françoise Sorya Dreyfus) 1934 - Actress ("La Dolce Vita", "Dr. Bethune")
• Phil Jones 1937 - Newsman
• Sandy Dennis 1937 - Actress ("Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff [1966]", "Splendor in the Grass")
• Judy Carne 1939 - Actress, comedienne
• Judith Blegen 1941 - Opera singer
• Lee Roy Jordan 1941 - Football player
• Bob Foster 1942 - Boxer
• Cuba Gooding 1944 - Singer
• Doug Buffone 1944 - Football player
• Ann Peebles 1947 - Singer
• Mack Alston 1947 - Football player
• Keith Magnuson 1947 - Hockey player
• Pete Ham 1947 - Musician (Badfinger)
• Dave Peel 1947 - Musician (The Lower East Side)
• Kate Pierson 1948 - Musician (B-52's)
• Herbie Murrell 1949 - Singer (The Stylistics)
• Douglas Sheehan 1949 - Actor
• Clive Taylor 1949 - Musician (Amen Corner)

  
• Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley 1951 - Musician (KISS, Frehley's Comet)
• Gary Huff 1951 - Football player
• George Gervin 1952 - Basketball player
• Sheena Easton 1959 - Singer
• Marco Pirroni 1959 - Musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees, Adam & the Ants)
• James Le Gros 1962 - Actor
• Rob Squires 1965 - Musician (Big Head Todd & the Monsters)
• Mica Paris 1969 - Singer
• Chris Carpenter 1975 - Baseball player
• Travis Meeks 1979 - Musician (Days of the New)
• Patrick Stump 1984 - Musician (Fall out Boy)