Tuesday, April 16, 2019

codicil \KOD-uh-suhl\, noun:

1. any supplement; appendix.
2. a supplement to a will, containing an addition, explanation, modification, etc., of something in the will.

Codicil, which entered English in the late 1400s, shares a root with code. Both are derived from the same Latin root, codex meaning "book of laws."

 

bio-illogical clock

• the internal physiological mechanism responsible for causing one to wake up at workday times on the weekend. also responsible for any low-grade sleep disorders and the inability to stay awake during any meetings held after lunch.

"it's saturday, go back to sleep!"

"i can't, it's my bio-illogical clock on the fritz again."

History

• Harriet Quimby: became the first female pilot to fly the English Channel (1912)
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: returned to Russia, ending an exile of some 20 years (1917)
• LSD: Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the drug (1943)
• Texas City Disaster: at least 580 were killed in the explosion of a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate, in America's worst industrial disaster (1947)
• cold war: term was coined by financier Bernard Baruch in a speech in South Carolina (1947)
• Walter Cronkite: the "most trusted man in America" began his 19-year run as anchor of CBS Evening News (1962)
• panda diplomacy: China sent the US two giant pandas as a gift after President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China (1972)
• Virginia Tech: Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, eventually killing 32 students and himself in the US's most deadly shooting rampage (2007)

Birthdays

• Hans Sloane 1660 - Doctor, naturalist, instrumental in founding of the British Museum
• Sir John Franklin 1786
• Flora Batson 1864
• Jose de Diego 1866 - Patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico, April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto Rico in his honor
• Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers
• John Millington Synge 1871 - Poet, playwright
• Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, communist
• Les Tremayne (Henning) 1913 - Actor ("The War of the Worlds", "The Slime People")
• John Hodiak 1914 - Actor
• Spike Milligan 1918
• Merce Cunningham 1919 - Dancer, choreographer
• Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor
• Kingsly Amis 1922 - Novelist
• Bennie Green 1923 - Musician, lyricist
• Barry Nelson 1920 - Actor ("Airport", "The Shining"), first actor to portray Ian Flemming's James Bond.
• Henri Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn")
• Joseph Alois Ratzinger 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
• Peter Mark Richman 1927
• Edie Adams 1929 - Actress
• Ed Townshend 1929
• Roy Hamilton 1929 - Singer
• Herbie Mann (Soloman) 1930 - Jazz musician,
• Ike Pappas 1933 - Singer
• Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer
• Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien) 1939 - Singer
• Queen Margrethe II 1940 - Queen of Denmark
• Jim (James Reynold) Lonborg 1942 - Baseball player
• Dave Peverett (Lonesome Dave) 1943 - Musician (Foghat)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)1947 - Basketball player
• Gerry Rafferty 1947 - Singer, songwriter
• Bill Spooner 1949 - Musician (The Tubes)
• Peter Garrett 1953 - Singer (Midnight Oil)
• Jay O. Sanders 1953 - Actor
• Ellen Barkin 1954 - Actress ("Eddie and the Cruisers")
• Jimmy Osmond 1963 - Singer (The Osmonds), the youngest Osmond
• David Pirner 1964 - Musician (Soul Asylum)
• John Cryer 1965 - Actor ("Superman 4: The Quest for Peace", "Pretty in Pink", "Two and a Half Men")
• Martin Lawrence 1965 - Actor, comedian
• Dan Rieser 1966 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
• Selena Quintanilla 1971 - Singer
• Peter Billingsley 1972 - Actor ("A Christmas Story")
• Lukas Haas 1976 - Actor
  Gina Carano 1982 - Actress
• Samantha Char 1995