Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

rhinorrhea (ry-nuh-REE-uh) noun
  • A runny nose.
Etymology: From Neo-Latin, from Greek rhino- (nose), -rrhea (flow)
 
tiger's wife mad
  • the act of being so angry at someone that you find the item they cherish most and beat them with it.
Chris was so tiger's wife mad at Joe that he grabbed Joe's Wii remote and beat him with it.
 
History 
  • St. Lucia's flood: a broken dike in the Netherlands caused one of the worst floods in history; 50,000+ people were killed (1287)
  • Alabama: The Yellowhammer State became America's 22nd state (1819)
  • South Pole: was first visited by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his expedition (1911)
  • Motown: record label that popularized the Motown Sound was formed in Detroit (1959)
  • Apollo program: Eugene Cernan, as a member of Apollo 17, became the last man on the moon so far (1972)
Birthdays
  • Nostradamus 1503
  • Tycho Brahe 1546
  • Roger Fry 1866
  • George VI (Britain) 1895
  • James Doolittle 1896
  • Margaret Chase Smith 1897
  • Bill Burke 1902
  • Morey Amsterdam 1908
  • Spike (Lindley Armstrong) Jones 1911
  • Dan Dailey 1913
  • Shirley Jackson 1919
  • Clark Terry 1920
  • Don Hewitt 1922
  • Abbe Lane 1932
  • George Furth 1932
  • Charlie Rich 1932
  • Lee Remick 1935
  • Hal Williams 1938
  • Frank St. Marseille (NHL) 1939 
  • James Sutorius 1944
  • Jane Birkin 1946
  • Stan Smith 1946
  • Patty Duke 1946
  • Michael Ovitz 1946
  • Jackie McCauley (Them) 1946
  • Joyce Vincent-Wilson (Tony Orlando, Dawn) 1946
  • Dee Wallace-Stone 1948
  • Bill Buckner (MLB) 1949
  • Cliff Williams (AC/DC) 1949 
  • Tamara Daanz 1952
  • Mike Scott (The Waterboys) 1958
  • Peter "Spider" Stacy (The Pogues) 1958
  • Cynthia Gibb 1963
  • Brian Dalyrimple (Soul for Real) 1975
  • Bridget Hall 1977
  • Sophie Monk 1979
  • Vanessa Anne Hudgens 1988 ...
   
  
 

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