Friday, December 24, 2021

Friday, December 24, 2021

lambent \LAM-buhnt\, adjective:
  1. Playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering; as, "a lambent flame; lambent shadows."
  2. Softly bright or radiant; luminous; as, "a lambent light."
  3. Light and brilliant; as, "a lambent style; lambent wit."
Lambent is from the present participle of Latin lambere,"to lick."
 
gift crack

  • The gap in wrapping paper or uncovered portion of a gift usually found on the bottom of the box. May result from the gift wrapper running out of paper or cutting gift wrap too small to cover the entire package.
Bryan figured out what his present was because the gift crack exposed the picture on the box.
 
christmastoe
  • see also mooseltoe. Camel toe at Christmas time.
Mrs. Claus is always worried about christmastoe during her holiday picture opportunities at the mall.

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Trivia
What early-19th-century American writer created the image of Santa soaring over rooftops in a sleigh, using chimneys to deliver gifts to children?
  • Washington Irving, in 1809, in A History of New York, which he wrote under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker.
Holiday 
  • Christmas Eve
History
  • Kiritimati: Pacific atoll also called Christmas Island was discovered by Captain Cook (1777)
  • Treaty of Ghent: ended the War of 1812 between the US and Great Britain (1814)
  • Library of Congress: majority of collection was destroyed by fire (1851)
  • Ku Klux Klan: violent racist organization was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a group of Democrat Confederate veterans (1865)
  • Aida: Giuseppe Verdi's opera had its world premiere in Cairo to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal (1871)
Birthdays
  • John (King of England) 1167
  • Ingatius (Loyola) 1491
  • Benjamin Rush 1745
  • Kit Carson 1809
  • James Joule 1818
  • Matthew Arnold 1822
  • Harry Warren (Salvatore Guaragna) 1893
  • Howard Hughes 1905
  • I.F. Stone 1907
  • Ralph Marterie 1914
  • Dave Bartholomew 1920
  • Ava Gardner 1922
  • Lee Dorsey 1924
  • Carol Haney 1924
  • Robert Joffrey 1930
  • Ray Bryant 1931
  • Jill Bennett 1931
  • Mike Curb 1944
  • Nicholas Meyer 1945
  • Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead) 1945
  • Jan Akkerman 1946
  • Sharon Farrell 1946
  • Clarence Gilyard 1955
  • Stephanie Hodge 1956
  • Ian Burden (Human League) 1957
  • Mary Ramsey (10,000 Maniacs) 1963
  • Diedrich Bader 1966
  • Ricky Martin 1971 
  • Stephanie Meyer 1973 author those awful TWILIGHT books
  • Ryan Seacrest 1974
 
 

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