Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

coaptation \koh-ap-TEY-shuhn\, noun:
  • a joining or adjustment of parts to one another: the coaptation of a broken bone.
Coaptation stems from the Latin word coaptātiō which meant "a precise joining together."
 
gynotician
  1. A politician who feels more qualified than women and their doctors to make women's health care decisions. 
  2. A combination of the words gynecologist and politician.
Republican governors such as Scott Walker and Rick Perry who impose draconian limitations on abortion clinics and attempt to limit access to HPV vaccinations, contraception and women's health care in general by shutting down Planned Parenthood clinics even though they do not perform abortions. They, and people like them, are gynoticians.
 
Trivia
Why is Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 47 in G Major known as the Palindrome Symphony?
  • Because the third movement is the musical equivalent of a palindrome—it’s the same played forward and backward.
History
  • Oregon Territory: was organized by an act of US Congress, consisting of all of present-day Oregon, Idaho and Washington, and parts of Montana and Wyoming (1848)
  • Social Security Act: was signed into law by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, establishing pensions and unemployment insurance (1935)
  • V-J Day: Japan surrendered, ending World War II (1945)
  • Pakistan: southern Asia country became independent of Britain (1947)
  • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez: the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" was captured (1994)
  • Northeast Blackout of 2003: 50 million people — one-third the population of Canada plus one-seventh the population of the US — lost electricity (2003)
Birthdays
  • Ernest Thayer 1863
  • John Galsworthy 1867
  • Russell Baker 1925
  • Buddy Greco 1926
  • Alice Ghostly 1926
  • John Brodie 1935
  • Dash Crofts (Seals and Crofts) 1940
  • David Crosby 1941
  • Connie Smith 1941
  • Robyn Smith Astaire 1944
  • Steve Martin 1945
  • Antonio Fargas 1946
  • Susan St. James 1946
  • Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone) 1946
  • Danielle Steel 1947
  • Gary Larson 1950 - Creator of "The Far Side"
  • Terry Adams (NRBQ) 1950
  • Debbie Meyer 1952
  • James Horner 1953
  • Jackee Harry 1956
  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson (NBA) 1959
  • Susan Olsen 1961
  • Emanuelle Beart 1965
  • Halle Berry 1968
  • Catherine Bell 1968
  • Mila Kunis 1983









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