morganatic\ mawr-guh-NAT-ik \ , adjective;
- Of or pertaining to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner.
Origin: Morganatic relates to the Latin morganaticam , "a gift given by bride or groom the day after marriage."
TV face
- A condition in which a person's face becomes too relaxed from starting the same thing too long (watching TV). Symptoms are: open mouth, dropped jaw, eyes glazed over and occasional drooling.
I don't think he heard a thing I said. He has total TV face right now.
History
- Cleveland: the Forest City was named after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the group that surveyed the area (1796)
- Wiley Post: American aviator completed the first round-the-world solo flight (1933)
- John Dillinger: bank robber known as Public Enemy No. 1 was killed in a shootout with federal agents after seeing a movie in Chicago (1934)
- King David Hotel: Jerusalem landmark was bombed by the Irgun in an attack on the British (1946)
- Iraq: Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were killed by US forces in Mosul; POW Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home to West Virginia (2003)
- Gregor Mendel 1822
- Steve Vincent Benet 1889
- Rose Kennedy 1890
- Karl Menninger 1893
- Alexander Calder 1898
- Bob Dole 1923
- Martha Whiting 1924
- Orson Bean 1928
- Marcia Henderson 1930
- Perry Lopez 1931
- Oscar De La Renta 1932
- Louise Fletcher 1934
- Chuck Jackson 1937
- Terence Stamp 1939
- Alex Trebek 1940
- George Clinton 1940
- Thomas Wayne 1941
- Bobby Sherman 1944
- Richard Davies (Supertramp) 1944
- Estelle Bennett (The Ronettes) 1944
- Paul Shrader 1946
- Danny Glover 1947
- Albert Brooks 1947
- Don Henley (Eagles) 1947
- Alan Menken 1949
- William Dafoe 1955
- Keith Sweat 1961
- Rob Estes 1963
- Joanna Going 1963
- Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) 1963
- David Spade 1964
- John Leguizamo 1965
- Patrick Labyorteaux 1965
- Irene Bedard 1967
- Laura Clery 1986
- Selena Gomez 1991
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