Monday, November 4, 2019

shoal \shohl\, noun:

1. a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
2. a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.

adjective:

1. of little depth, as water; shallow.

verb:

1. to become shallow or more shallow.
2. to cause to become shallow.
3. Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).

Shoal comes from the Old English term sceald meaning "shallow." It was spelled with a d up until the 1500s. 

 

Concentration marks

• The red marks you get on your elbows/forearms from resting your arms on your knees after having spent a long time on the toilet.

"Dude, you were in there for a really long time!"
"Yeah man, I was taking a massive shit."
"Bro, you've got some serious concentration marks. Look at your elbows!"

History

• William and Mary: joint rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland were married (1677)
• cash register: was first patented by James and John Ritty (1880)

  
• King Tutankhamen: treasure-filled tomb was discovered in Luxor, Egypt, by archeologist Howard Carter (1922)
• Nellie T. Ross: Wyoming woman became the first female governor of a US state; she was serving out her late husband's term (1924)
• Iran hostage crisis: a mob seized the US Embassy in Teheran after the US admitted the exiled Shah Reza Pahlavi (1979)
• Yitzhak Rabin: Israeli prime minister was assassinated after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv (1995)
• Barack Obama: was elected the United States' first African-American chief executive, worst president since Jimmy Carter (2008)

Birthdays

• Will Rogers 1879
• Pauline Trigere 1912
• Walter Cronkite 1916
• Virginia Field 1917
• Gig Young (Byron Barr) 1917
  
• Art Carney 1918
• Carmen Mitchell 1918
• Martin Balsam 1919
• Alfred Heineken 1923
• Kate Reid 1930
• Dick Groat 1930
• Doris Roberts 1930
• Loretta Swit 1937 - Actress (M*A*S*H*)
• Harry Elston (Friends of Distinction) 1938
• Delbert McClinton 1940
• Robert Mapplethorpe 1946
• Laura Bush 1946 - U.S. First Lady, wife of U.S. President George W. Bush
• Markie Post 1950
• Van Stephenson (Blackhawk) 1953
• Jordan Rudess 1956 - Musician (Dream Theater)
• Jim Honeyman-Scott 1957 - Musician (Pretenders)
• Ralph Macchio 1962
• Adrea McArdle 1963
• Wayne Richard "Static" Wells 1965  - Musician (Static-X)
• Chris Difford 1954 - Musician (Squeeze)