Sunday, October 6, 2019

Parnassian \pahr-NAS-ee-uhn\, adjective:

1. pertaining to poetry.
2. pertaining to Mount Parnassus.
3. of, pertaining to, or noting a school of French poets of the latter half of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by a belief in art for art's sake, by an emphasis on metrical form, and by the repression of emotive elements: so called from Le Parnasse Contemporain, the title of their first collection of poems, published in 1866.
4. a member of the Parnassian school of French poets.

Parnassian comes from a school of French poets whose first collection of poems was called Le Parnasse Contemporain.

 
craigslist bodyguard

• Someone (usually a friend) who accompanies you to an in-person meeting arranged via Craigslist to provide support in case of anything going wrong (ex: the Craigslist person being dangerous, creepy, or a scammer). The Craigslist Bodyguard can also simply provide moral support or transportation.

Sam: Are you really gonna meet that mechanic from Craigslist? What if he murders you?
John: Don't worry, James is coming as my Craigslist Bodyguard.

 

Trivia
What are agamas, basilisks, and chuckwallas?

• Types of lizards.

History 

• Moulin Rouge: France's most famous cabaret opened in the Montmartre section in Paris (1889)
• The Jazz Singer: first full-length talkie debuted with songs and 291 spoken words (1927)
• The Curse of the Billy Goat: began when Billy Sianis and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series; Sianis predicted that the Cubs would never again win a World Series, and, so far, they haven't even been in one since then (1945)
• Yom Kippur War: Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year (1973)
• Anwar Sadat: Egypt's president was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists while reviewing a military parade in Cairo (1981)

Birthdays

•  Wenceslas III (1289-1306): king of Hungary 
• Jenny Lind 1820
• George Westinghouse 1846 - Founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems

• Reginald Fessenden 1866
• Le Corbusier 1887
• Jerome Cowan 1897
• Florence Seibert 1897
• Jack Sharkey 1902
• Helen Wills Moody 1905
• Janet Gaynor 1906
• Carole Lombard 1908
• Thor Heyerdahl 1914
• H.R. (Bum) Bright 1920
• Shana Alexander 1925
• Paul Badura-Skoda 1927
• Hafez Assad (Syria) 1930
• Fred Graham 1931
• Anna Quayle 1936
• Britt Ekland 1942
• Fred Travalena 1942
• Millie Small 1946
• Klaus Dibiasi 1947
• Thomas McClary (The Commodores) 1950
• David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) 1954
• Elisabeth Shue 1963
• Matthew Sweet 1964
• Tim Rushlow 1966
• Kitty (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971
• Bobby Farrell (Boney M) 1949
• Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) 1951
• Amy Jo Johnson 1970
  Olivia Thirlby 1986 (Cassandra Anderson in Dredd)