weal \WEEL\, noun:
1. Well-being, prosperity, or happiness.Weal shares the Old English root wela with welfare and a host of other English words. The ultimate source in Proto-Indo-European is wel-, which is also the ancestor of words related to will.
2. A raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow.
3. (Obsolete:) the state or body politic.
Emperor's Hand
- A person who performs "special tasks" for Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire. Mara Jade was a known Hand.
"Yeah, I'd hate to be one of the Emperor's Hands on a lonely night."
Trivia
Who was the first actress to win an Oscar for portraying a real-life Oscar winner?
Who was the first actress to win an Oscar for portraying a real-life Oscar winner?
- Cate Blanchett who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Aviator (2004).
History
- Peregrine White: the first child of English parents born in present-day New England, came into the world on the Mayflower, docked in Massachusetts Bay (1620)
- New Jersey: the Garden State became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights (1789)
- Nuremberg trials: an Allied tribunal began trying Nazis for war crimes; the defense of "I was following orders" was not accepted (1945)
- Elizabeth II: the future queen of England married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey (1947)
- Edwin Hubble 1889
- Chester Gould 1900
- Alistair Cooke 1908
- Evelyn Keyes 1919
- Beryl Sprinkel 1923
- Robert F. Kennedy 1925
- Kaye Ballard 1926
- Estelle Parsons 1927
- Richard Dawson 1932
- Kim Weston 1939
- Dick Smothers 1939
- Norman Greenbaum 1942
- Veronica Hamel 1943
- Judy Woodruff 1946
- Duane Allman 1946 - Musician (Allman Brothers)
- Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh 1947 - Musician (James Gang, Eagles)
- Richard Masur 1948
- Bo Derek 1956
- Jim Brown 1957 - Musician (UB40)
- Sean Young 1959
- Todd Nance 1962 - Musician (Widespread Panic)
- Ming-Na Wen 1963 - Actress
- Mike D. 1965 - Musician (The Beastie Boys)
- Sen Dog 1965 - Musician (Cypress Hill)
- Ming-Na Wen 1967
- Phife Dog 1970
- Marisa Ryan 1974
- Josh Turner 1977 - Country singer
- Nadine Velasquez 1978 - Actress
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