rhapsodize \RAP-suh-dahyz\, verb:
1. To talk with extravagant enthusiasm.2. To speak or write rhapsodies.
Rhapsodize connects to ancient Greek rhapsodes, professional reciters of poetry.
ineption
- Completely inept at understanding the film, Inception.
You don't understand Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece? Talk about ineption.
History
- Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)
- Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851)
- Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)
- IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)
- Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)
- Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)
- Thomas Bewick 1753
- Abbott Thayer 1849
- Christy Mathewson 1880
- Cecil B. DeMille 1881
- Cantinflas 1911
- Mario Moreno 1911
- Jane Wyatt 1912
- Michael Kidd 1919
- Majorie Reynolds 1921
- Joe Jones 1926
- John Derek 1926
- Porter Wagoner 1927
- Mstislav Rostropovich 1927
- Buck Owens 1929
- William Goldman 1931
- Parnelli Jones 1933
- Larry Ziegler 1939
- George Hamilton 1939
- Jennifer Warren 1941
- Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1949
- Kid Creole 1950
- Pat Metheny 1954
- Sam J. Jones 1954
- Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) 1956
- Suzanne Vega 1959
- Roy Hay (Culture Club) 1961
- Sir Mix-A-Lot 1963
- Peter Krause 1965
- Pete Sampras 1971
- Rebecca Gayheart 1972
- Linda O'Neil / Pamela Laveux 1973: actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.
- Casey Affleck 1975
- Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) 1975
- Dominique Swain 1980
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