Monday, February 03, 2020

Monday, February 3, 2020

litigious \li-TIJ-uhs\, adjective: 
  1. inclined to dispute or disagree; argumentative.
  2. of or pertaining to litigation.
  3. excessively or readily inclined to litigate: a litigious person.
Litigious is derived from the Latin word lītigi meaning "a quarrel." 

superbowl
  • 30 second clips of men running in between commercials.
Person 1: Who do you think will win the Superbowl?
Person 2: What's that? Oh, those men running in between the commercials?
 
History
  • 15th Amendment: was ratified, granting black men the right to vote (1870)
  • 16th amendment: was ratified, authorizing income tax on a federal level in the US (1913)
  • the day the music died: a plane crash killed rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "the Big Bopper" (1959)
  • Luna 9: Soviet spacecraft became the first to soft-land on the moon (1966)
Birthdays
  • Horace Greeley 1811
  • Sidney Lanier 1842
  • Gertrude Stein 1874
  • Norman Rockwell 1894
  • Alvar Aalto 1898
  • James A. Michener 1907
  • Simon Weil 1909
  • Joey Bishop 1918
  • Bibi Osterwald 1920
  • John Fiedler 1925
  • Art Arfons 1926
  • Shelley Berman 1926
  • Frankie Vaughn 1928
  • Peggy Ann Garner 1932
  • Jeremy Kemp (Edmund Walker) 1935
  • Victor Buono 1938
  • Emile Griffith 1938
  • Fran Tarkenton 1940
  • Angelo D'Aleo (Dion and The Belmonts) 1940
  • Blythe Danner 1943
  • Dennis Edwards 1943
  • Eric Haydock (The Hollies) 1943
  • Bridget Handley 1944
  • Melanie (Safka) 1947
  • Dave Davies (The Kinks) 1947
  • Morgan Fairchild 1950
  • Nathan Lane 1956
  • Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth) 1956
  • Thomas Calabro 1959
  • Lol Tolhurst (Cure, Presence) 1959
  • Keith Gordon 1961
  • Michele Greene 1962
  • Matraca Berg 1964
  • Maura Tierney 1965
  • Nick Hawkins (Big Audio) 1965
    Isla Lang Fisher 1976
  • Grant Barry (Reel Big Fish) 1977
 

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