gynarchy \JIN-er-kee, GAHY-ner-, JAHY-ner-\, noun:
Kristin: "He was blitzed too. He said forget about it - it's beer under the bridge."
Trivia
What nicknames did England’s Princess Diana give her sons, William and Harry, when they were tots?
- government by women.
Gynarchy entered English in the late 1500s from the Greek gyne + -arkhe literally meaning "woman rule."
beer under the bridge
beer under the bridge
- When one or more intoxicated individuals either physically or verbally spars, and the next day they agree to forget about it since they were drunk.
Kristin: "He was blitzed too. He said forget about it - it's beer under the bridge."
Trivia
What nicknames did England’s Princess Diana give her sons, William and Harry, when they were tots?
- Prince William’s nickname was Wombat; Prince Harry’s was Ginger.
History
- Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declared their independence of Spain (1821)
- Nuremberg Laws: deprived Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official emblem of Nazi Germany (1935)
- civil rights: a bomb killed four black girls when it exploded during Sunday services in a Birmingham, Alabama, church, sparking race riots (1963)
- USA Today: Gannett's national newspaper hit the stands; it's America's top-selling daily newspaper in print (1982)
- Lehman Brothers: the investment bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — the largest bankruptcy in US history (2008)
- James Fenimore Cooper 1789
- William H. Taft (U.S.) 1857
- Robert Benchley 1889
- Agatha Christie 1890
- Jean Renoir 1894
- Roy Acuff 1903
- Fay Wray 1907
- Penny Singleton 1908
- Margaret Lockwood 1916
- Snooky Pryor 1921
- Jackie Cooper 1922
- Bobby Short 1926
- Norm Crosby 1927
- Cannonball Adderly 1928
- Gaylord Perry 1938
- Merlin Olsen 1940
- Jimmy Gilmer (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs) 1940
- Les Braid (The Swinging Blue Jeans) 1941
- Carmen Maura 1945
- Jessye Norman 1945
- Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly) 1945
- Oliver Stone 1946
- Tommy Lee Jones 1946
- Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies) 1960
- Dan Marino (NFL) 1961
- Danny Nucci 1968
- Kay Gee (Naughty by Nature) 1969
- Josh Charles 1971
- Tom Hardy 1977 (Bane from The Dark Knight)
- Amy Davidson 1978
- Prince Harry of Wales 1984
- Jenna "Marbles" Mourey 1986 - blogger, model, comedian, go-go dancer
- Heidi Montag 1986 - nit-wit
\JIN-er-kee, GAHY-ner-, JAHY-ner-\, noun:
- government by women.
Gynarchy entered English in the late 1500s from the Greek gyne + -arkhe literally meaning "woman rule."
beer under the bridge
beer under the bridge
- When one or more intoxicated individuals either physically or verbally spars, and the next day they agree to forget about it since they were drunk.
Kristin: "He was blitzed too. He said forget about it - it's beer under the bridge."
Trivia
What nicknames did England’s Princess Diana give her sons, William and Harry, when they were tots?
- Prince William’s nickname was Wombat; Prince Harry’s was Ginger.
History
- Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declared their independence of Spain (1821)
- Nuremberg Laws: deprived Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official emblem of Nazi Germany (1935)
- civil rights: a bomb killed four black girls when it exploded during Sunday services in a Birmingham, Alabama, church, sparking race riots (1963)
- USA Today: Gannett's national newspaper hit the stands; it's America's top-selling daily newspaper in print (1982)
- Lehman Brothers: the investment bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — the largest bankruptcy in US history (2008)
- James Fenimore Cooper 1789
- William H. Taft (U.S.) 1857
- Robert Benchley 1889
- Agatha Christie 1890
- Jean Renoir 1894
- Roy Acuff 1903
- Fay Wray 1907
- Penny Singleton 1908
- Margaret Lockwood 1916
- Snooky Pryor 1921
- Jackie Cooper 1922
- Bobby Short 1926
- Norm Crosby 1927
- Cannonball Adderly 1928
- Gaylord Perry 1938
- Merlin Olsen 1940
- Jimmy Gilmer (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs) 1940
- Les Braid (The Swinging Blue Jeans) 1941
- Carmen Maura 1945
- Jessye Norman 1945
- Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly) 1945
- Oliver Stone 1946
- Tommy Lee Jones 1946
- Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies) 1960
- Dan Marino (NFL) 1961
- Danny Nucci 1968
- Kay Gee (Naughty by Nature) 1969
- Josh Charles 1971
- Tom Hardy 1977 (Bane from The Dark Knight)
- Amy Davidson 1978
- Prince Harry of Wales 1984
- Jenna "Marbles" Mourey 1986 - blogger, model, comedian, go-go dancer
- Heidi Montag 1986 - nit-wit
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