Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

percipient \per-SIP-ee-uhnt\, adjective:
  1. having perception; discerning; discriminating: a percipient choice of wines.
  2. perceiving or capable of perceiving.
noun:
  1. a person or thing that perceives.
Percipient entered English in the mid-1600s from the Anglo-Norman perceivre meaning "to take notice of."
 
leftfielding, adj:
  • the act of contributing a comment amongst a group of friends that is completely irrelevant to the current subject matter currently discussed.
We were all having a fantastic group discussion about sports until Mike decided to do a little leftfielding and talk about his mom's body odor.

History
  • Order of the Garter: oldest existing order of knights was founded by King Edward III of England (1348)
  • Baedeker blitz: a series of German Luftwaffe raids on the English cities of Exeter, Bath, Norwich and York began in retaliation for the RAF bombing of Lübeck (1942)
  • Hank Aaron: hit his first of 755 major league home runs; his career total is second only to Barry Bonds (1954)
  • New Coke: Coca-Cola launched its marketing flop (1985)
  • "Me at the Zoo": YouTube's first video was launched on the fledgling website (2005)
Birthdays
  • William Shakespeare 1564 - Poet, playwright ("Julius Caesar", "Romeo and Juliet", "MacBeth"), believed to have been born on April 23 based on his baptism on April 26, 1564
  • James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck
  • Serbei Prokofiev 1891 - Pianist, composer ("Peter and the Wolf")
  • (Charles Burnham) Bud Wilkinson 1916 - Football player
  • Janet Blair (Martha Jane Lafferty) 1921 - Actress ("My Sister Eileen", "The Fabulous Dorseys")
  • Shirley (Jane) Temple Black 1928 - Child actress ("Little Miss Marker", "Heidi", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")
  • Alan Oppenheimer 1930 - Actor ("Murphy Brown", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman")
  • Halston (Roy Frowick) 1932 - Fashion designer, created the pillbox hat that was worn by Jackie Kennedy at President Kennedy's inauguration
  • Roy Orbison 1936 - Singer
  • Don Massengale 1937 - Golfer
  • Ray Peterson 1939 - Singer
  • David Birney 1939 - Actor ("Oh, God! Book 2", "St. Elsewhere")
  • Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II) 1940 - Actor ("The Six Million Dollar Man", "Big Valley")
  • Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck) 1942 - Actress ("Gidget")
  • Hervé Villechaize 1943 - Actor ("Fantasy Island")
  • Tony Esposito 1944 - Hockey player
  • Marty Fleckman 1944 - Golfer
  • Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) 1948 - Irish civil rights leader
  • Blair Brown 1948 - Actress
  • Joyce DeWitt 1949 - Actress ("Three's Company)
  • Paul Brickman 1949 - Director, writer
  • Narada Michael Walden 1952 - Musician (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report), record producer, songwriter
  • James Russo 1953 - Actor
  • Captain Sensible 1954 - Musician (Damned)
  • Michael Moore 1954 - Lib-tard, biased filmmaker, fat slob, shit-head, liberal mouthpiece.
  • Judy Davis 1955 - Actress
  • Jan Hooks 1957 - Actress ("Designing Women", "Saturday Night Live", "Batman Returns")
  • Craig Sheffer 1960 - Actor
  • Valerie Bertinelli 1960 - Actress ("One Day at a Time")
  • Steve Clark 1960 - Musician (Def Leppard)
  • George Lopez 1961 - Actor
  • Gen 1964 - Musician (Jesus Jones)
  • Melina Kanakaredes 1967 - Actress ("Providence", "Guiding Light", "CSI: New York")
  • Tim Womack 1968 - Musician (Sons of the Desert)
  • Stan Frazier 1968 - Musician (Sugar Ray)
  • Scott Bairstow 1970 - Actor
  • Andruw Jones 1977 - Baseball player
  • Kal Penn 1977 - Actor ("House M.D.")
  • Daniela Hantuchova 1983 - Tennis player
  • Rachel Skarsten 1985 - Actress
  • Camryn Walling 1990 - Actor ("The Agency")
  • Dev Patel 1977 - Actor ("Slumdog Millionaire") 

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