Sunday, December 12, 2021

Sunday, December 12, 2021

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palliate \PAL-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:
  1. To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate.
  2. To make less severe or intense; mitigate.
  3. To relieve the symptoms of a disease or disorder.
Palliate derives from Late Latin palliatus, past participle of palliare, "to cloak, to conceal," from Latin pallium, "cloak."
 
kings toe
  • Kings toe is when the second toe is longer than the (great) or big toe.
Oh! look at his feet, he has the kings toe on both feet.
 

History

  • Joseph Rainey: became the first African American to sit in the US House of Representatives (1870)
  • The Katzenjammer Kids: oldest comic strip still in syndication debuted (1897)
  • Guglielmo Marconi: transmitted the first transatlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland; the feat was unsubstantiated (1901)
  • Boys Town: youth center was founded by Father Flanagan (1917)
  • Arthur Ashe: became the first African American to be ranked #1 in tennis (1968)
  • Keiko: Willy of Free Willy, a killer whale, died of pneumonia in his mid-20s in a Norwegian fjord (2003)
Birthdays
  • Gustave Flaubert 1821
  • Edvard Munch 1863
  • Edward G. Robinson 1893
  • Robert Covington 1914
  • Frank Sinatra 1915
  • Joe Williams 1918
  • Bob Barker 1923
  • Ed Koch 1924
  • Robert N. Noyce 1927
  • Connie Francis 1938
  • Dionne Warwick 1940
  • Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) 1942
  • Grover Washington Jr. 1943
  • Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers) 1943
  • Wings Hauser 1947
  • Bill Nighy 1949
  • Paul Rodgers (Bad Company) 1949
  • Cathy Rigby 1952
  • Sheila E. 1957
  • Cy Curnin (Fixx) 1957
  • Sheree J. Wilson 1958
  • Tracy Ann Austin Holt 1962 - Tennis player
  • Mädchen Amick 1970
  • Jennifer Connelly 1970
  • Bobbi Billard 1975 - t3h pr0n
  • Mayim Bialik 1975

 

 

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