lea \lee, ley\, noun:
1. a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
2. land used for a few years for pasture or for growing hay, then plowed over and replaced by another crop.
3. a crop of hay on tillable land.
adjective:
1. untilled; fallow.
Lea comes from the Old English word lea which referred to a plot of land. It likely came from the Latin word lūcus which meant "grove."
fartriloquism
- Art of “throwing” one's farts in such a way that the sound and/or smell seems to come from a source other than the farter.
- A person who practices the art is called an ventriloquist.
"Trey,I was in the middle of the room when all of a sudeen I smelled a nasty fart"
"Dude, sorry, was doing my fartriloquism act, I was aiming for Anthony."
History
- gold rush: a gold nugget was found at Sutter's Mill in northern California; President Polk announced the find in December and the gold rush began (1848)
- Robert Baden-Powell: organized the first Boy Scout troop in England (1908)
- Eskimo Pie: chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar was patented by Christian K. Nelson; it aimed to satisfy cravings for ice cream and chocolate bars at once (1922)
- St. Petersburg: Russian city was renamed Leningrad three days after Lenin's death (1924)
- Shoichi Yokoi: Japanese soldier was discovered hiding on Guam, 28 years after American forces reconquered the island in the Battle of Guam (1972)
- Department of Homeland Security: began operations, headed by Tom Ridge (2003)
Birthdays
- Frederick the Great (Prussia) 1712
- Edith Wharton (Jones) 1862
- Ann Todd 1909
- John Beasley Brickhouse 1916
- Ernest Borgnine 1917
- Oral Roberts 1918
- Maria Tallchief 1925
- Marvin Kaplan 1927
- Desmond Morris 1928
- Jack Scott (Scafone) 1936
- Bobby Scott 1937
- Ray Stevens 1939
- Neil Diamond 1941
- Aaron Neville 1941
- Julie Gregg 1944
- Warren Zevon 1947
- John Belushi 1949
- Becky Hobbs 1950
- Michael Ontkean 1950
- Yakov Smirnoff 1951
- Elaine Giftos 1954
- Nastassja Kinski 1961
- Keech Rainwater (Lonestar) 1963
- John Myung (Dream Theater) 1967
- Mary Lou Retton 1968
- Pat "Sleepy" Brown (Society of Soul) 1970
- Tatyana Ali 1979
- Nicole Marie Lenz 1980 Playmate
- Mischa Barton 1986
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