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additament \uh-DIT-uh-muhnt\, noun:
- something added; an addition.
Additament comes from the Latin word additāmentum which referred to an addition.
Sympathy Drunk
- Someone who begins to act drunk when those around him/her are drunk but is not really intoxicated.
"Is she drunk? She's only like 15."
"No man she hasn't had any to drink at all; she's just a sympathy drunk"
"No man she hasn't had any to drink at all; she's just a sympathy drunk"
What 1997 blockbuster film was the first movie to have two performers nominated for Oscars for their portrayals of the same character?
- Titanic. Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart were both nominated for their portrayals of Rose. Winslet, as young Rose, was nominated for Best Actress; Stuart, as elderly Rose, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Both lost. The two performers/same character situation recurred four years later, with Winslet again involved. For the 2001 film Iris, she was nominated and lost for Best Supporting Actress as young Iris, and Judi Dench was nominated and lost for Best Actress as the older Iris.
- Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)
- Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851)Quagga: the last specimen of the zebra-like animal died, at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam (1883)
- Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)
- IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)
- Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)
- Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)
- Thomas Bewick 1753
- Abbott Thayer 1849
- Christy Mathewson 1880
- Cecil B. DeMille 1881
- Cantinflas 1911
- Mario Moreno 1911
- Jane Wyatt 1912
- Michael Kidd 1919
- Majorie Reynolds 1921
- Joe Jones 1926
- John Derek 1926
- Porter Wagoner 1927
- Mstislav Rostropovich 1927
- Buck Owens 1929
- William Goldman 1931
- Parnelli Jones 1933
- Larry Ziegler 1939
- George Hamilton 1939
- Jennifer Warren 1941
- Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1949
- Kid Creole 1950
- Pat Metheny 1954
- Sam J. Jones 1954
- Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) 1956
- Suzanne Vega 1959
- Roy Hay (Culture Club) 1961
- Sir Mix-A-Lot 1963
- Peter Krause 1965
- Pete Sampras 1971
- Rebecca Gayheart 1972
- Linda O'Neil / Pamela Laveux 1973: actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.
- Casey Affleck 1975
- Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) 1975
- Dominique Swain 1980
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