Thursday, June 23, 2022

rococo \roh-kuh-KOH\, adjective:

1. Ornate or florid in speech, writing, or general style.

2. Pertaining to a style of painting developed simultaneously with the rococo in architecture and decoration, characterized chiefly by smallness of scale, delicacy of color, freedom of brushwork, and the selection of playful subjects as thematic material.

noun:

1. A style of architecture and decoration, originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shellwork, foliage, etc.

adjective:

1. In the manner of, or suggested by rococo architecture, decoration, or music or the general atmosphere and spirit of the rococo.

Rococo originates as a humorous alteration of the French rocaille, "shellwork, pebble-work", refering to the excessive use of shell designs in the style of various French monarchs.

 

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History

• typewriter: Christopher Sholes received a patent for his new typing machine (1868)
• Banff National Park: Canada's first national park was signed into law; it is in Alberta, on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains (1887)
• SAT: standardized college-admission exam was first administered; 8,000 test-takers had 90 minutes to answer 315 questions (1924)
• Warren E. Burger: was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States; he served until 1986 (1969)
• John Gotti: the "Teflon don," boss of the Gambino crime family, was sentenced to life in prison (1992)
• Mr & Mrs Bax0jayz tie the (balloon) knot (2001)

Birthdays

• Josephine Marinique 1763
• Irvin Cobb 1876
• Alfred Kinsey 1894
• Edward Patrick David 1894
• Edward P. Morgan 1910
• Jean Marie Anouilh 1910
• David Ogilvy 1911
• Alan Turing 1912
• Irene Worth 1916
• Larry Blyden 1925
• Bob Fosse 1927
• June Carter Cash 1929
• Adam Faith 1940
• Diana Trask 1940
• Wilma Rudolph 1940
• James Levine 1943
• Rosetta Hightower (The Orlons) 1944
• Ted Shackelford 1946
• Bryan Brown 1947
• Clarence Thomas 1948
• Jim Metzler 1954
  Glenn Danzig 1955
• Randy Jackson (Randall Darius Jackson) 1956 - Musician, judge on "American Idol"
• Frances McDormand 1957
• Karin Gustafson 1959
• Paul La Greca 1962
• Richard Coles (Communards) 1962
• Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) 1962
• Chico DeBarge 1970
• Selma Blair 1972
• Virgo Williams (Ghostowns DJs) 1975