machination \mack-uh-NAY-shuhn; mash-\, noun:
- The act of plotting.
- A crafty scheme; a cunning design or plot intended to accomplish some usually evil end.
Origin: Machination derives from Latin machinatio, "a contrivance, a cunning device, a machination," from machinari, "to contrive, to devise, especially to plot evil." It is related to machine, from Latin machina, "any artificial contrivance for performing work." To machinate is to devise a plot, or engage in plotting. One who machinates is a machinator.
iSmear
iSmear
- A long horizontal smear on the bottom of your iPhone caused from answering a call using the slide bar with a greasy finger.
Trev: ahh thats just an iSmear from my greasy finger.
History
- serendipity: word was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann (1754)
- Carnegie Institute: Andrew Carnegie established this private scientific research foundation after the US government refused his gift of $10 million to finance the advancement of knowledge (1902)
- "We Are the World": Michael Jackson/Lionel Richie song that raised millions for famine relief in Africa was recorded by 45 popular performers (1985)NASA Space Shuttle Explosion: Challenger exploded 73 seconds into take-off killing the entire crew.
- Element 114: scientists announced the creation of the synthetic radioactive chemical element (1999)
Birthdays
- Jose Marti 1853
- William Seward Burroughs 1857
- Artur Rubinstein 1889
- Jackson Pollock 1912
- Jim Bryan 1927
- Acker Bilk 1927
- Ronnie Scott 1927
- Acker (Bernard) Bilk 1929
- Susan Sontag 1933
- Nicholas Pryor 1935
- Alan Alda 1936
- John Beck 1943
- Susan Howard 1943
- Dick Taylor (The Pretty Things) 1943
- Brian Keenan 1944
- Marthe Keller 1945
- Barbi Benton 1950
- Dave Sharp (The Alarm) 1959
- Sam Phillips 1962
- Dan Spitz 1964 (Anthrax)
- Greg Cook (Ricochet) 1965
- Rakim 1968
- DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) 1968
- Katherine Morris 1969
- Joey Fatone Jr. ('N Sync) 1977
- Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) 1980
- Elijah Wood 1981
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