Sunday, August 21, 2022

Sunday, August 21, 2022

peon
1.
a. An unskilled laborer or farm worker of Latin America or the southwest United States.
b. Such a worker bound in servitude to a landlord creditor.
2. A menial worker; a drudge.
3. (also pyun) In India and other parts of South and Southeast Asia, a person of menial position, especially a messenger, servant, or foot soldier.
From Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘walker, foot soldier,’ from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot.  

hit on the horn
  • To make a phone call (mostly used by African Americans.)
A: "Yo... sorry I am late Bro."
B: "Yeah... I just was goin´ to hit on the horn."

History
  • Lincoln-Douglas debates: began in the Illinois Senate race; slavery and states' rights were the main issues (1858)
  • Mona Lisa: was stolen from the Louvre by a museum employee; she was recovered two years later (1911)
  • Leon Trotsky: Soviet revolutionary died of wounds inflicted by a Stalinist assassin with an ice axe (1940)
Birthdays
  • Aubrey Beardsley 1872
  • William Count Basie 1904
  • Chris Schenkel 1923
  • Jack Weston 1924
  • Art Farmer 1928
  • Elmo Langley 1928
  • Princess Margaret (Britain) 1930
  • Melvin Van Peebles 1932
  • Wilt Chamberlain 1936
  • Kenny Rogers 1938
  • James Burton 1939
  • Clarence Williams III 1939
  • Harold Reid (The Statler Brothers) 1939
  • Ernie Maresca 1939 - Musician
  • Jackie DeShannon 1944
  • Willie Lanier 1945
  • Patty McCormack 1945
  • Carl Giammarese (The Buckinghams) 1947
  • Harry Smith 1951
  • Joe Strummer (The Clash) 1952
  • Nick Kane (The Mavericks) 1954
  • Kim Cattrall 1956
  • Kim Sledge (Sister Sledge) 1957
  • Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees) 1957
  • Jim McMahon 1959
  • Carrie-Anne Moss 1970
  • Liam Howlett (Prodigy) 1971
  • Gary Whitta 1972 - Screenwriter, author, video game designer
  • Alicia Witt 1975
  • Annet Mahendru 1989

  • Hayden Panettiere 1989

 
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