Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

plenipotentiary \plen-uh-puh-TEN-shee-air-ee; -shuh-ree\, 
adjective:
  • Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, "plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers."
noun:
  • A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or diplomatic agent with full power to negotiate a treaty or to transact other business.
Origin: Plenipotentiary derives from Latin plenus, "full" + potens, "powerful."
 
time vampire

  • Something or someone who literally sucks your time like a vampire sucks blood.
My computer broke again, I spent all night working on that fucking time vampire.
 
History
  • Anne Boleyn: already pregnant, the lady-in-waiting was wed in secrecy to King Henry VIII of England (1533)
  • Nellie Bly: circumnavigated the globe in 72 days, besting Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1890)
  • Winter Olympics: were played for the first time in Chamonix, France in the 1st Olympic Winter Games (1924)
  • Emmys: the first awards for excellence in TV were presented for local Los Angeles productions; Shirley Dinsdale was the first winner (1949)
  • jet age: American Airlines ran its first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707 (1959)
  • OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb: discovery of an extrasolar planet was announced; it orbits the star OGLE-2005-BLG-390L and lies near the center of the Milky Way (2006)
Birthdays
  • Robert Boyle 1627
  • Robert Burns 1759
  • W. Somerset Maugham 1874
  • Ernst F. W. Alexanderson 1878
  • Virginia Woolf 1882
  • Earnie Halwell 1918
  • Edwin Newman 1919
  • Barbara Carroll 1925
  • Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia) 1928
  • Dean Jones 1931
  • Corazon Aquino 1933
  • Elizabeth Allen 1934
  • Diana Hyland (Gentner) 1936
  • Etta James 1938
  • Leigh Taylor-Young 1944
  • Richard Finch (KC and the Sunshine) 1954
  • Jennifer Lewis 1957
  • Dinah Manoff 1958
  • Andy Cox (Fine Young Cannibals) 1960
  • Mike Burch (River Road) 1966
  • Kina Cosper (Brownstone) 1969
  • China Kantner 1971
  • Mia Kirshner 1975
  • Alicia Keys 1981
Alicia Keys
 
 
 
 

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