Thursday, January 30, 2020

Thursday, January 30, 2020

antebellum \AN-tee-BEL-uhm\, adjective: 
  • before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar: the antebellum plantations of Georgia.
Antebellum entered English in the 1860s. It literally means "before the war" in Latin.

bedgasm
  • A feeling of complete and utter euphoria which peaks when climbing into bed at the end of an 18-hour workday, a long road trip or hours of extremely strenuous physical activity. Under perfect conditions, the physical release has been likened to that of an intense sexual experience.
It was a three hour drive in the middle of the night, I could barely stay awake. When I got home, I climbed under the covers and had a ten-minute bedgasm.

History
  • Charles I: monarch of Great Britain and Ireland was beheaded for treason (1649)
  • Mahatma Gandhi: nonviolent Indian political and spiritual leader was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu extremist; Gandhi had been working to promote Hindu-Muslim unity (1948)
  • Tet Offensive: the Vietcong launched a series of surprise attacks (1968)
  • The Beatles: performed as a group for the last time in public; they played for 45 minutes on the roof of their Apple Records studio (1969)
  • Bloody Sunday: 14 civil rights protesters were shot to death by British troops in Derry, Northern Ireland (1972)
  • Iraq: held its first free election in 50 years (2005)
Birthdays
  • Anton Checkhov 1860
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) 1882
  • Roy Eldridge (Gene Krupa's Band) 1911
  • David Wayne 1914
  • John Ireland 1914
  • Bennie Leighton 1921
  • Gene Martin 1922
  • Dick Martin 1922
  • Barbara Hale 1922
  • Dorothy Malone 1925
  • Douglas Engelbart 1925
  • Gene Hackman 1931
  • Louis Rukeyser 1933
  • Tammy Grimes 1934
  • Horst Jankowski 1936
  • Boris Spassky 1937
  • Vanessa Redgrave 1937
  • Norma Jean 1938
  • Dick Cheney 1941
  • Joe Terranova (Danny and the Juniors) 1941
  • Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) 1942
  • Steve Marriott (Humble Pie & Small Faces) 1947
  • William King (The Commodores) 1949
  • Charles Dutton 1951
    Phil Collins 1951 drummer
  • Brett Butler 1958
  • Jody Watley 1959
  • Christian Bale 1974

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