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gelid \JEL-id\, adjective:
- Extremely cold; icy.
evasive mumbling
- Mumbling the answer to a question in hopes that the questioner won't hear or understand an answer that may get you in trouble.
Holiday
- Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grundsaudaag, Murmeltiertag) is a day celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, then spring will come early; if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.
History
- Buenos Aires: was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain (1536)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: agreement ended the Mexican-American War, with Mexico ceding much of the US West and Southwest (1848)
- Cardiff Giant: 10-foot-tall "petrified man" was revealed as a hoax; the figure was made of gypsum (1870)
- F.W. de Klerk: lifted the 30-year ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela (1990)
Birthdays
- Fritz Kreisler 1875
- James Joyce 1882
- Charles Correll 1890
- George Halas 1895
- Ayn Rand 1905
- Gale Gordon 1906
- Burton Lane 1912
- James Dickey 1923
- Elaine Stritch 1926
- Stan Getz 1927
- Russell Arms 1929
- Robert Mandan 1932
- Tom Smothers 1937
- Martina Arroyo 1937
- Alan Caddy (The Tornados, Johnny Kidd and The Pirates) 1940
- Bo Hopkins 1942
- Howard Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) 1946
- Farrah Fawcett 1947
- Peter Lucia (Tommy James and The Shondells) 1947
- Brent Spiner 1949
- Ross Valory (Journey) 1949
- Christie Brinkley 1954
- Kim Zimmer 1955
- Michael Talbott 1955
- Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) 1966
- Ben Mize (Counting Crows) 1971
- T-Mo (Goodie Mob) 1972
- Lori Beth Denberg 1976
- Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripol 1977
Gemma Arterton 1986
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