Wednesday, November 13, 2019

kelpie \KEL-pee\, noun:

• (in Scottish legends) a water spirit, usually having the form of a horse, reputed to cause drownings or to warn those in danger of drowning.

Kelpie is of unknown origin, though it is thought to be related to the Gaelic colpach meaning "steer" or "colt." It first entered English in Scotland in the mid-1700s. 

 

Download Sabbath

• The day on which you give in to your computer's non-stop reminders and install lots of updates at once. No work may be done on the computer on this day, hence it being a "Sabbath."

Boss: Can you type up a letter to the client before the end of the day? 

Employee: No can do, chief. I still have 23 critical updates for Windows to install. 

Boss: Ah, it's Download Sabbath. I see.

 

History

• Saint Brice's Day Massacre: King Ethelred of England ordered the murder of all Danes in his country (1002)
  
• death & taxes: Benjamin Franklin listed life's two certainties in a letter (1789)
• Holland Tunnel: the world's first long, mechanically-ventilated, underwater tunnel opened between New York and New Jersey (1927)
• Fantasia: animated musical Disney film premiered (1940)
• Bhola cyclone: the 20th century's greatest natural disaster killed hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh (1970 )
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial: "the Wall," designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC (1982)

Birthdays 

• Edwin Booth 1833
• Robert Louis Stevenson 1850
• Louis Brandeis 1856
• Alexander Scourby 1913
• Nathaniel Benchley 1915
• Jack Elam 1916
• Oskar Werner 1922
• Clyde McPhatter (Drifters) 1933
• Joonas Kokkonen 1921
• Madeleine Sherwood 1922
• Linda Christian 1924
• Richard Mulligan 1932
• Garry Marshall 1934
• Jean Seberg 1938
• Dack (Norman) Rambo 1941
• Ray Wylie Hubbard 1946
• Joe Mantegna 1947
• Whoopi Goldberg 1949
• Chris Noth 1957
• Tracy Scoggins 1959
• Caroline Goodall 1959
• Vinny Testaverde 1963
• Walter Kibby (Fishbone) 1964
• Jimmy Kimmel 1967
• Steve Zahn 1968
• Gerard Butler 1969 (The 300 Guy)