billingsgate \BIL-ingz-gayt; -git\, noun:
- Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language.
Billingsgate is so called after Billingsgate, a former market in London celebrated for fish and foul language.
spit take
spit take
- A visual gimmick used in film and on stage where a person is surprised or taken aback by another's actions or words while drinking, and spits or sputters that liquid.
Trivia
Who was the first actress to win an Oscar for portraying a real-life Oscar winner?
- Cate Blanchett who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Aviator (2004).
History
- Peregrine White: the first child of English parents born in present-day New England, came into the world on the Mayflower, docked in Massachusetts Bay (1620)
- New Jersey: the Garden State became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights (1789)
- Nuremberg trials: an Allied tribunal began trying Nazis for war crimes; the defense of "I was following orders" was not accepted (1945)
- Elizabeth II: the future queen of England married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey (1947)
- Edwin Hubble 1889
- Chester Gould 1900
- Alistair Cooke 1908
- Evelyn Keyes 1919
- Beryl Sprinkel 1923
- Robert F. Kennedy 1925
- Kaye Ballard 1926
- Estelle Parsons 1927
- Richard Dawson 1932
- Kim Weston 1939
- Dick Smothers 1939
- Norman Greenbaum 1942
- Veronica Hamel 1943
- Judy Woodruff 1946
- Duane Allman 1946 - Musician (Allman Brothers)
- Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh 1947 - Musician (James Gang, Eagles)
- Richard Masur 1948
- Bo Derek 1956
- Jim Brown 1957 - Musician (UB40)
- Sean Young 1959
- Todd Nance 1962 - Musician (Widespread Panic)
- Mike D. 1965 - Musician (The Beastie Boys)
- Sen Dog 1965 - Musician (Cypress Hill)
- Ming-Na Wen 1967
- Phife Dog 1970
- Marisa Ryan 1974
- Josh Turner 1977 - Country singer
- Nadine Velasquez 1978 - Actress
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