Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

fatuous \FACH-oo-uhs\, adjective:
  1. Inanely foolish and unintelligent; stupid.
  2. Illusory; delusive.
Fatuous comes from Latin fatuus, "foolish, idiotic, silly."
 
Face base

  • The point in a romantic relationship when pictures of the couple begin to appear on Facebook, and or when the relationship status changes to "In a relationship".
"It looks like Kat has made it to Face base with that new guy."
 
Holiday
  • Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: a day to commemorate when Japan launched an unprovoked cowardly sneak-attack on a sleeping American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the US into WWII (1941)
History
  • Delaware: the First State ratified the US Constitution and was admitted to the Union (1787)
  • New York Philharmonic: America's oldest symphony orchestra debuted; they played Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (1842)
  • "The Blue Marble": famous photograph was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 as NASA's last moon mission flew away from Cape Canaveral (1972)
Birthdays
  • Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 1598
  • Willa Cather 1873
  • Eli Wallach 1915
  • Ted Knight 1923
  • Bent Frabric 1924
  • Bobby Osborne 1931
  • Ellen Burstyn 1932
  • Carole Simpson 1940
  • Harry Chapin 1942
  • Johnny Bench (MLB) 1947
  • Gary Morris 1948
  • Tom Waits 1949
  • Larry Bird (NBA) 1956
  • Priscilla Barnes 1956
  • Edd Hall 1958
  • Tim Butler (Psychedelic Furs) 1958
  • C. Thomas Howell 1966
  • Nicole Appleton (All Saints) 1975 
  • Orli Shoshan 1976 (Shaak Ti from the Star Wars prequels)
  • Sara Beth Bareilles 1979 - Singer
  • Jennifer Carpenter 1979
  • Emily Browning 1988 


 
  

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