Thursday, April 11, 2019

pharaonic \fair-ey-ON-ik, far-\, adjective:

1. (usually lowercase) impressively or overwhelmingly large, luxurious, etc.: a construction project of pharaonic proportions.
2. (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
3. (lowercase) cruelly oppressive; tyrannical: pharaonic tax laws.

Pharaonic's root can be traced back to the Egyptian pr-ʿo, literally meaning "great house." While the noun Pharaoh entered the language though Old English, English speakers didn’t use this particular adjectival form until the late eighteenth century.

 

Wise beyond beers

• Being able to actually remember the philosophical shit you talked about while wasted the night before.

Damn I can't believe you remembered all that shit. You sir are wise beyond beers.

History

• Napoleon Bonaparte: abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to Elba (1814)
• The Tramp: Charlie Chaplin's comic silent film was released (1915)
• Jackie Robinson: broke the color barrier in major league baseball, appearing in his first exhibition game (1947)
• 1968 Civil Rights Act: LBJ signed into law an act prohibiting discrimination in selling or renting housing
• Uganda: Idi Amin's military regime was overthrown (1979)

Birthdays

• Lizzie P. Bliss 1864 - Co-founder of New York City's Museum of Modern Art
• Lou Holtz 1893 - Comedian, actor
• Dean G. Acheson 1893
• Percy Julian 1899 - Scientist
• Dale Messick 1906 - Cartoonist ("Brenda Starr")
• Paul Douglas 1907 - Actor
• Jane Bolin 1908 - Attorney, first black woman to graduate from Yale School of Law, first black, female judge
• John Levy 1912 - Jazz musician (George Shearing quintet)
• Oleg Cassini 1913 - Fashion designer
• Cameron Mitchell 1918
• Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber 1918
• Dorothy Shay 1921 - Singer, actress
• Ralph Blaze 1922 - Guitarist (with Stan Kenton)
• Ethel Kennedy (Skakel) 1928 - Wife of U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy
• Johnny Sheffield 1931 - Actor
• Joel Grey 1932 - Singer (Katz), dancer, actor ("Cabaret"), actress Jennifer Grey's father
• Richard Berry 1935
• Louise Lasser 1939 - Actress ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "Slither")
• Ellen Goodman 1941 - Syndicated columnist
• John Milius 1944 - Director, screenwriter
• Joe Beauchamp 1944 - Football player
• Meshach Taylor 1947 - Actor ("Designing Women")
• Peter Riegert 1947 - Actor ("The Mask")
• Bill Irwin 1950 - Actor ("Hot Shots!", "Popeye"), choreographer
• Stever George 1951 - Football player
• Sid Monge 1951 - Baseball player
• Chris Difford 1954 - Musician (Squeeze)
• Neville Staple 1956 - Musician (The Specials)
• Jim Lauderdale 1957 - Country singer, songwriter
• Daryl Simmons 1957 - Songwriter, producer
• Stuart (William) Adamson 1958 - Musician (Big Country)
• Lucky Vanous 1961 - Actor
• Steve Azar 1964 - Country singer
• Nigel Pulsford 1965 - Musician (Bush)
• Lisa Stansfield 1966 - Singer, songwriter
• Delroy Pearson 1970 - Musician (Five Star)
• Dylan Keefe 1970 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
• Jason Varitek 1972 - Baseball player
• Tricia Helfer 1974
• Mark Teixeira 1980 - Baseball player
  Alessandra Ambrosio - 1981
• Joss Stone 1987 - Singer