Saturday, February 19, 2022

gastronome \GAS-truh-nohm\, noun:

• A connoisseur of good food and drink.

Origin: Gastronome is ultimately derived from Greek gaster, "stomach" + nomos, "rule, law."

handcestors

• all the ancestors never to be born due to male masturbation.

I wiped those handcestors off on a dirty sock.

Trivia

History

• Treaty of Westminster: ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War; New Amsterdam was subsequently ceded to England (1674)
• Aaron Burr: the former US vice president was arrested for treason; he was acquitted (1807)
• Edict of Emancipation: serfs were liberated by Czar Alexander II (1861 OS)
• internment: FDR signed an order confining thousands of West Coast Japanese-Americans to relocation centers (1942); they were released three years later
• Iwo Jima: Operation Detachment commenced when US Marines invaded the island.
• Eastenders: top-rated British soap first aired (1985)
• Mir: Soviet/Russian space station was launched; it remained in orbit for 15 years and was occupied for 12.5 of those (1986)
• Fidel Castro: after nearly 50 years in power, Cuba's charismatic president resigned his post; his younger brother Raúl took over (2008)

Birthdays

• Nicolas Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick) 1473 - Polish astronomer, known for the Copernican theory: the sun is the center of our universe
• David Garrick 1717 - Actor, playwright
• Sven Hedin (Sven Anders Hedin) 1865 - Explorer, geographer

  
• Sir Cedrick Hardwicke 1893 - Actor ("The Hunchchback of Notre Dame", "The Ten Commandments")
• Louis Calhern (Carl Henry Vogt) 1895 - Actor ("The Count of Monte Cristo", "Blackboard Jungle")
• Nydia Westman 1902 - Actress ("Strange Justice", "The Velvet Touch")
• John Bubbles (John William Sublett) 1902 - Actor ("Porgy and Bess"[1953 on Broadway], "Cabin in the Sky")
• Susan Fleming 1909 - ("Range Feud")
• Merle Oberon (Thompson) 1911 - Actress ("Wuthering Heights", "The Oscar")
• Stan Kenton 1912

  
• Dick Siebert (Richard Walther Siebert) 1912 - Baseball player
• Eddie Arcaro 1916 - Jockey, won two Triple Crowns (1941, 1928)
• Carson McCullers 1917 - Author ("The Member of the Wedding", "Reflections in a Golden Eye")
• Lee Marvin 1924 - Actor ("The Caine Mutiny", "The Dirty Dozen", "Delta Force")
• John Frankenheimer 1930 - Director
• Russ Nixon 1935 - Baseball player
• Bob Engemann 1936 - Singer (The Lettermen)
• Carlin Glynn 1940
• Smokey Robinson 1940 - Singer (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
• Bobby Rogers 1940 - Singer (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
• Paul Krause 1942 - Football player
• Bob Menne 1942 - Golfer
• Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco) 1943 - Singer
• Michael Nader 1945
• Bruce Fairbairn 1947 - Actor
• Mark Andes (Spirit) 1948
• Tony Iommi 1948 - Musician (Black Sabbath)
• Amy Tan 1952 - Author
• Francis Buchholz 1954 - Musician (Scorpions)
• Eddie Brown 1952 - Football player
• Jeff Daniels 1955 - Actor ("The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Terms of Endearment")
• Ray Winstone 1957 - Actor
• Peter Holsapple (dB's) 1956
• Dave Wakeling (English Beat, General Public, Bang!) 1956
• Lorraine Crook 1957
• Falco (Johann Holzel) 1957 - Singer
• Prince Andrew 1960 - British Duke of York
• Hana Mandlikova 1962 - Tennis player
• Seal 1963 - Singer (Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel)
• Justine Bateman 1966 - Actress ("Family Ties")
• Benicio Del Toro 1967 - Actor
  Burton C. Bell 1969 - Fear Factory
• Haylie Duff 1985 - Singer, actress ("7th Heaven")
• Victoria Justice 1993 - Singer, actress