yaw \YAW\, verb:
1. To move unsteadily; weave.2. To deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.3. (Of a vehicle) to have a motion about the vertical axis.
Yaw migrates to English from the Old Norse jaga, "to drive, chase.".
drive-by friending
- The sending of a friend request on Facebook or other social networking site without including any information on who you are or how you know the recipient.
There were twenty mutual friends listed, but I never heard the name before and they didn't include a note identifying themselves. So I rejected it as a drive-by friending.
History
- Globe Theatre: London theatre that showcased Shakespeare's plays burned down; it was reconstructed in 1997 (1613)
- Townshend Acts: were passed by the British Parliament, imposing import duties on paper, tea and other items shipped to America; they led to the Boston Massacre (1767)
- Furman v. Georgia: the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that capital punishment could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" (1972)
- Atlantis: space shuttle docked with Russian space station Mir; together they formed the largest man-made satellite to orbit Earth (1995)
- iPhone: went on sale in the US amid enormous buzz (2007)
Birthdays
- George W. Goethals 1858
- William Mayo 1861
- George Ellery Hale (1868-1938): astronomer who invented the Hale telescope
- James Van Der Zee 1886
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900
- Nelson Eddy 1901
- Frank Loesser 1910
- John Toland 1912
- Rafael Jeronym Kubelik 1914
- Ruth Warrick 1915
- Slim Pickens 1919
- Ralph Burns 1922
- Mousey Alexander 1922
- Cara Williams 1925
- Robert Evans 1930
- Stokeley Carmichael 1941
- Roger Ruskin Spear 1943
- Gary Busey 1944
- Little Eva Boyd 1945
- Richard Lewis 1947
- Fred Grandy 1948
- Ian Paice 1948 - Musician (Whitesnake)
- Dan Dierdorf 1949
- Colin Hay 1953 - Musician (Men at Work)
- Don Dokken 1953 - Heavy Metal
- Maria Conchita Alonso 1957
- Evelyn "Champagne" King 1960
- Sharon Lawrence 1961
- Amanda Donohoe 1962
- Steadman Pearson 1964 - Musician (Five Star)
- DJ Shadow (Josh Paul Davis) 1972 - Music producer, DJ, songwriter
- Zuleikha Robinson 1977 - Actress ("Lost")
- Nicole Scherzinger 1978 - lead singer of Pussycat Dolls, exotic beauty
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