Thursday, November 14, 2019

crepuscule \kri-PUHS-kyool, KREP-uh-skyool\, noun:

• twilight; dusk.

Crepuscule entered English around the year 1400 from the Latin meaning "twilight, dusk, darkness." 

 

charger-challenged 

• The inability to remember to plug a cell phone in to recharge occasionally, thus resulting in a battery-dead device.

Jean's IPhone never work's when she needs it. She cannot ever remember to plug it in overnight. She is definitely charger-challenged.

 

bacontarian

• A person who claims to be a true vegetarian but knowingly supplements their diet with small amounts of bacon, bacon bits, and bacon fat.

My friend Sagar, a true Bacontarian, claims to be a true vegetarian but also eats meals where bacon is added.

Trivia

Which familiar features on the face of the Man in the Moon are created by the Sea of Showers and the Sea of Serenity on the lunar surface?

• The eyes. The Sea of Showers or Sea of Rains (Mare Imbrium, in Latin) is the left eye; the Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis) is the right eye.

Trivia

Why did author J. K. Rowling use initials rather than her full name when she launched her Harry Potter series?

• She had been told young boys might object to reading a book written by a woman. So Joanne Rowling—who had no middle name—borrowed the K from her late grandmother Kathleen and became J. K. Rowling.

History

• Moby Dick: the famous Herman Melville novel was published (1851)
• Nellie Bly: New York journalist began her around-the-world-in-72-days trip, beating the time of Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1889)
• Coventry: central England city was largely reduced to rubble by Nazi air raids (1940)
• Apollo 12: second successful manned mission to the moon was launched (1969)
• Sedna: this trans-Neptunian object and very far-away dwarf planet candidate was discovered (2003)

Birthdays

• William III (Britain) 1650
• Robert Fulton 1765
• Claude Monet 1840
• Jawaharlal Nehru 1889
• Aaron Copland 1900
• Dick Powell 1904
• Joseph McCarthy 1909
• Rosemary DeCamp 1910
• Barbara Hutton 1912
• Martha Tilton 1915
• Howard Duff 1917
• Johnny Desmond 1920
• Brian Keith 1921
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922
• Phyllis Avery 1924
• Kathleen Hughes 1928
• McLean Stevenson 1929
• Fred Haise 1933
• Ellis Marsalis 1934
• Don Stewart 1935
• Carey Bell 1936
• Freddie Garrity (Freddie & the Dreamers) 1940
• P.J. O'Rourke 1947
• Buckwheat Zydeco 1947
• James Young (Styx) 1948
• Prince Charles (England) 1948
• Stephen Bishop 1951
• Yanni 1954 - Musician
• D.B. Sweeney 1961
• Laura San Giacomo 1961
• Run (Run D.M.C.) 1964
• Patrick Warburton 1964
• Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads) 1964
• Jeannette Jurado (Expose) 1965
• Butch Walker (Marvelous 3) 1969
• Shyheim 1977
• Olga Kurylenko 1979