Thursday, October 10, 2019

Thursday, October 10, 2019

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fermata \fer-MAH-tuh; It. fer-MAH-tah\, noun:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
 
going batman
  • Taking on the night life after taking care of business during the day.
I am going Batman until the morning after working all 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)
Birthdays
  • 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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