Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

solicitous \suh-LIS-uh-tuhs\, adjective:
  1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern.
  2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive.
  3. Extremely careful; meticulous.
  4. Full of desire; eager.
Origin: Solicitous is from Latin sollicitus, "thoroughly or violently moved, disturbed, or agitated," hence "anxious, uneasy, worried," from sollus, "whole, entire" + citus, past participle of ciere, "to move, to stir."

sorry dude
  • A friendly and common greeting in snowboarder language.
Simon: dude, watch where your riding!
Ray: Sorry dude
 
History
  • Immaculate Conception: the belief that the Virgin Mary was born free of sin was defined as a dogma by Pope Pius IX (1854)
  • World War II: the day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the US entered into WWII (1941)
  • CIS: the Commonwealth of Independent States was established instead of the USSR by Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (1991)
  • NAFTA: Canadian-Mexican-US trade pact was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton (1993)
Birthdays
  • Horace 65 B.C.
  • Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) 1542
  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson 1832
  • Diego Rivera 1886
  • James Thurber 1894
  • Lee J. Cobb 1911
  • Floyd Tillman 1914
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. 1925
  • Richard Fleischer 1926
  • Maximillian Schell 1930
  • Flip Wilson 1933
  • David Carradine 1936
  • James MacArthur 1937
  • Jerry Butler 1939
  • James Galway 1939
  • Bobby Elliot (The Hollies) 1942
  • Jim Morrison (Doors) 1943
  • John Rubenstein 1946
  • Greg Allman (Allman Brothers) 1947
  • Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant) 1949
  • Kim Basinger 1953
  • Warren Cuccurullo (Duran Duran) 1957
  • Phil Collen (Def Leppard) 1957 
  • Marty Raybon (The Raybon Brothers) 1959
  • Paul Rutherford (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) 1959
  • Marty Friedman (Megadeth) 1962
  • Malcolm Gets 1963
  • Teri Hatcher 1964
  • Sinead O'Connor 1966
  • Matthew Laborteaux 1966
  • Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) 1966
  • Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) 1972
  • Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) 1973
  • Dominic Monaghan (Dominic Bernard Patric Monaghan) 1976 - Actor ("Lost," "Lord of the Rings")
  • Ian Somerhalder 1978 - Actor ("Lost," "The Vampire Diaries")

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