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fermata \fer-MAH-tuh; It. fer-MAH-tah\, noun:
- the sustaining of a note, chord, or rest for a duration longer than the indicated time value, with the length of the extension at the performer's discretion.
- a symbol placed over a note, chord, or rest indicating a fermata.
Fermata comes from the Italian word of the same spelling which means "stop" or "pause." It entered English in the late 1870s.
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- Taking on the night life after taking care of business during the day.
Trivia
What does the squirting cucumber plant squirt?
- Seeds and slimy fluid—as far as 20 feet. The strange plant, native to the Mediterranean region, looks like a normal cucumber, but as it ripens it begins filling up with a slimy juice that builds such intense pressure inside the cucumber that it shoots off its stalk, spewing seeds and fluid in its wake.
History
- US Naval Academy: was established in Annapolis, Maryland, as the Naval School (1845)
- Outer Space Treaty: international agreement went into effect (1967)
- Fiji: became independent of Britain (1970)
- London Bridge: (re)opens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona (1971)
- Spiro Agnew: Richard Nixon's vice president resigned after being charged with tax evasion (1973)
- Giuseppe Verdi 1813
- Helen Hayes 1900
- Johnny Green 1908
- Ivory Joe Hunter 1914
- Thelonious Monk 1917
- Louis Gottlieb 1923
- James Clavell 1924
- Edward D. Wood, Jr. 1924
- Paul Kruger (South Africa) 1925
- Richard Jaeckel 1926
- Harold Pinter 1930
- Bruce Devlin 1937
- Dallas Smith 1941
- Peter Coyote 1942
- Joanna Shimkus 1944
- Ben Vereen 1946
- John Prine 1946
- Charles Dance 1946
- Pete Mahovalich 1948
- Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) 1948
- Jessica Harper 1949
- Midge (James) Ure 1953
- David Lee Roth (Van Halen) 1955
- Tanya Tucker 1958
- Kirsty MacColl 1959
- Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1961
- Jim Glennie (James) 1963
- Rebecca Pidgeon 1965
- Bai Ling 1966
- Mike Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls) 1967
- Brett Favre (NFL) 1969
- Dean Roland (Collective Soul) 1972
- Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974
- Jodi Lyn O'Keefe 1978
- Mya Harrison 1979
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