doff \DOF\, transitive verb:
- To take off, as an article of clothing.
- To tip or remove (one's hat).
- To put aside; to rid oneself of.
immaculate congestion
- When traffic is backed up for miles on a highway, crawling along -- and then suddenly everyone returns to normal high speeds without passing an accident, stalled car, or road construction.
History
- Boston Tea Party: rebellious American Patriots dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest paying tea taxes to Britain (1773)
- Battle of the Bulge: German attack began in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium in WWII (1944)
- Millau Viaduct: taller than the Eiffel Tower and nearly as tall as the Empire State Building, the world's tallest vehicular bridge opened to traffic near Millau, France (2004)
Birthdays
- Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 - Composer
- Jane Austen 1775
- George Santayana 1863
- Arthur Fieldler 1894
- Noel Coward 1899 - English actor, playwright and composer
- Margaret Mead 1901
- Turk Murphy 1915
- Arthur C. Clarke 1917 - Author
- Bruce Ames 1928
- Philip K. Dick 1928 - Author (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which became the movie BLADERUNNER, among others)
- Wayne Connelly 1929
- Shelby Singleton 1931
- Morris Dees 1936 - Civil rights attorney
- Joyce Bulifant 1937 - Actress
- Jim Glaser 1937 - (Tompall and the Glaser Brothers)
- Liv Ullmann 1939 Actress
- Leslie Stahl 1941 - CBS news correspondent ("60 Minutes")
- Paul Butterfield 1942
- Steven Bochco 1943 - TV producer (NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues)
- Benny Andersson 1946 - Singer, keyboards, synthesizers (ABBA)
- Ben Cross 1948 - Actor
- Billy Gibbons 1949 - Musician (ZZ Top)
- Robben Ford 1951
- Bill Bateman 1951 - Musician (The Blasters)
- Alison LaPlaca 1959 - Actress
- Jon Tenney 1961 - Actor (The Closer)
- Sam Robards 1961 - Actor (American Beauty)
- William "Refrigerator" Perry 1962 - Football player
- Benjamin Bratt 1963 - Actor
- Michael McCary 1971 - Singer (Boyz II Men)
- Krysten Ritter 1981
- Chris Scruggs 1982 - Country musician
- Hallee Hirsh 1987 - Actress (JAG)
- Anna Popplewell 1988 - Actress (The Chronicles of Narnia)
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