Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

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dolorous \DOH-luh-ruhs\, adjective:
  • Marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.
Dolorous derives from Latin dolor, "pain, grief, sorrow," from dolere, "to suffer pain, to grieve."
 
Gift Parasite
  • A person who adds their name to a gift tag in order to claim partial credit for giving the gift.
I'm totally broke so I had to be a gift parasite and sign on that present you're giving Grandma.
 
 
Holiday
  • Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
  • Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere)
History
  • Pilgrims: arrived in the New World, seeking religious freedom; they went ashore near Plymouth Rock, having traveled west after their initial settlement in Leiden, Holland, became unsustainable (1620)
  • radium: radioactive element was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie (1898)
  • crossword puzzle: Liverpudlian journalist Arthur Wynne published the first "word-cross" puzzle, in The New York World (1913)
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: film version premiered in Hollywood (1937)
  • Pan Am Flight 103: went down over Lockerbie, Scotland, after a terrorist bomb exploded aboard, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground (1988)
Birthdays 
  • Jean Baptiste Racine 1639
  • Benjamin Disraeli 1804
  • Henrietta Szold 1860
  • Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili) 1879 (Obama's Idol)
  • Walter Hagen 1892
  • Pat Weaver 1908
  • Andor Foldes 1913
  • Heinrich Böll 1917
  • Kurt Waldheim 1918
  • Alicia Alonso 1921
  • Paul Winchell 1922
  • Phyliss Love 1925
  • Ed Nelson 1928
  • Freddie Hart 1933
  • Phil Donahue 1935
  • John Avildsen 1935
  • Jane Fonda 1937
  • Frank Zappa 1940
  • Ray Hildebrand 1940
  • Carla Thomas 1942
  • Albert Lee 1943
  • Gwen McCrae 1943
  • Jared Martin 1943
  • Michael Tilson Thomas 1944
  • Gordon Kannegiesser 1945
  • Josh Mostel 1946
  • Carl Wilson (The Beach Boys) 1946
  • Nate Wright 1947
  • Elliott Maddox 1947
  • Samuel L. Jackson 1948
  • Claude Chartre 1949
  • Betty Wright 1953
  • Chris Evert 1954
  • Jane Kaczmarek 1955
  • Jim Rose 1956
  • Lee Roy Parnell 1956
  • Ray Romano 1957
  • Florence Griffith Joyner 1959
  • Christy Forester (The Forester Sisters) 1962
  • Andy Dick 1965
  • Gabrielle Glaser (Luscious Jackson) 1965
  • Kiefer Sutherland 1966
  • Michelle Hurd 1966
  • Khrystyne Haje 1968
  • Brad Warren (The Warren Brothers) 1968
  • Julie Delpy 1969
  • Brett Scallions (Fuel) 1971
  • Wendy "Four" "Fiore" Combattante (pr0n) 1983 
  • Steven Yeun (TWD) 1983
  • Kaitlyn Dever 1996


 Michelle Hurd bikini by lowerrider on DeviantArt
 

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