Monday, November 25, 2019

en bloc \ahn BLAWK; English. en BLOK\, adverb:

• French. as a whole.

En bloc entered English in the mid-1800s directly from the French phrase of the same spelling and meaning.

 

commercial game

• The game I watch during a commercial break of the game I'm really watching.

"Yeah, I watched it, but it was my commercial game"

 

Trivia
How was money raised to pay for the bronze statues of Zeus that were erected at the Olympic Games held in ancient Greece?

• From fines imposed on athletes and sponsor cities for bribery, cheating, and lying. Their offenses were etched on the bases of the statues, called Zanes, which lined the route to the Olympic stadium.

History

• Hollywood Ten: screenwriters were blacklisted by producers for being suspected Communists (1947)
   The Star Wars Ewok Adventure aired on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. (1984)
• Iran-contra affair: arms-sales scandal blew open; US National Security Council aide Oliver North was fired for planning to ship arms secretly to Iran (1986)
• Elián González: 6-year-old Cuban émigré was rescued by fishermen off Florida's coast, sparking a political asylum/child custody battle (1999)
• Department of Homeland Security: was signed into law by George W. Bush; Tom Ridge was named the first department head (2002)

Birthdays

• Andrew Carnegie 1835
  
• Carry Nation 1846
• Virgil Thomson 1896
• Joe DiMaggio (MLB) 1914
• Augusto Pinochet (Chili) 1915
• Ricardo Montalban 1920
• Etta Jones 1928
• Nat Adderley 1931
• Kathryn Crosby 1933
• Matt Clark 1936
• Percy Sledge 1940
• Tracey Walter 1942
• Ben Stein 1944
• Bob Lind (Elusive Butterfly) 1944
• Bev Bevan (Electric Light Orchestra) 1946
• Jonathan Kaplan 1947
• John Larroquette 1947
• Amy Grant 1960
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. 1960
• Bernie Kosar (NFL) 1963
• Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) 1964
• Dougray Scott 1965
• Stacy Lattisaw 1966
• Deborah Wells 1968 t3h pr0n
• Erick Sermon 1968
• Jill Hennessey 1968
• Christina Applegate 1971