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")