Saturday, December 11, 2021

recalcitrant \rih-KAL-sih-truhnt\, adjective:

• Stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.

Recalcitrant derives from Latin recalcitrare, "to kick back," from re-, "back" + calcitrare, "to strike with the heel, to kick," from calx, calc-, "the heel." 
 
Canadian Refrigerator

• A bank or pile of snow during the colder months of winter, where food or beverage products (namely soda and beer) can be stored. Great for parties.

"Are we out of Molson Canadian?" 
"There's plenty in the Canadian refrigerator." 

 

History

• Indiana: the Hoosier State became America's 19th state (1816)
• Edward VIII: king of Great Britain and Ireland became the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily; he did it for love (1936)
• UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965, was founded (1946)
• Chechnya: Moscow sent in troops to restore control over the region (1994)
• Madoff scandal: Bernie Madoff: the former NASDAQ chairman was arrested for perpetrating what may be the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history; he was sentenced to 150 years in prison (2008)

Birthdays

• Fiorello La Guardia 1882
• Carlo Ponti 1913
• Perez Prado 1918
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918
• Maila Nurmi 1922 (Vampira)
• Betsy Blair 1923
• Willie Mae Thornton 1926
• Jean-Louis Trintignant 1930
• Rita Moreno 1931
• Ron Carey 1935
• J. Frank Wilson 1941
• David Gates (Bread) 1941
• Donna Mills 1943
• Brenda Lee 1944
• Tony Brown 1946
• Lynda Day George 1946
• Teri Garr 1949
• Susan Seidelman 1952
• Bess Armstrong 1953
• Jermaine Jackson 1954
• Mike Mesaros (Smithereens) 1957
• Franklin Carlton "Nikki Sixx" Serafino Feranna 1958 - "bassist"term used loosely (Mötley Crüe)
• David Schools (Widespread Panic) 1964
• Mo'Nique 1968
• Rider Strong 1979