Friday, December 13, 2019

FRIDAY THE 13TH!

triskaidekaphobia \ tris-kahy-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, tris-kuh- \ , noun;

• fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. 

Origin: Triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek word for thirteen, triskaídeka and the Greek word for fear, phobos . It entered English in the early 1900s.

wroth \rawth, roth or, especially Brit., rohth\, adjective:

1. stormy; violent; turbulent: the wroth sea.
2. angry; wrathful (usually used predicatively): He was wroth to see the damage to his home.

Wroth is derived from the Old English wrāth which comes in turn from the Old Norse word reithr which meant "angry." It is related to the word writhe. 

Misophonia

• The disorder in which a person experiences excessive anger towards those who smack their food or breathe too heavily.

Rachel: "Dude, what's wrong with Tori?"

Truett: "Oh nothing, Sarah is eating and Tori is having some misophonia trouble."

Trivia

What musical instrument represents the rattling bones of skeletons in orchestral performances of Danse Macabre, by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns?

• The xylophone.
  

Holiday

• Friday the 13th: No one really knows the origin of the superstition about Friday the 13th, although in Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, he suggested that it started with the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.

History

• Francis Drake: British explorer set out on a three-year circumnavigation of the globe, looting Spanish ships as he sailed (1577)

  
• New Zealand: was sighted for the first time by a European, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman (1642)
• Susan B. Anthony dollar: the US Mint began stamping out the first US coin to honor a woman, suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1978)
• United States presidential election of 2000: Democratic candidate Al Gore conceded the race to President Bush 36 days after Election Day
• Saddam Hussein: Iraqi dictator was captured hiding in a spider hole near Tikrit (2003)

Birthdays

• Dick Van Dyke 1925
• Christopher Plummer 1929

• Buck White 1930
• Robert Prosky 1930
• Richard Zanuck 1934
• John Davidson 1941
• Ted Nugent 1948
• Ron Getman (The Tractors) 1948
• Jeff Baxter (The Doobie Brothers) 1948
• Randy Owen (Alabama) 1949
• Tom Veralain (Television) 1949
• Wendy Malick 1950
• Robert Lindsay 1951
• Steve Forbert 1954
• John Anderson 1954
• Steve Buscemi 1957
• Marianne Gravatte 1959: Playboy Playmate of the Year 1983
• John Whitaker 1959
• Dana Strum (Slaughter) 1959
• Deborah Driggs 1963: Playboy Playmate of the Month March 1990
• Jamie Foxx 1967
• Amy Lee 1981: Singer
• Chelsea Hertford 1981
• Taylor Swift 1989

 

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