Thursday, November 17, 2022

Thursday, November 17, 2022

idioglossia \id-ee-uh-GLOS-ee-uh\, noun:
  1. A private form of speech invented by one child or by children who are in close contact, as twins.
  2. A pathological condition in which a person's speech is so severely distorted that it is unintelligible.
Idioglossia combines the Greek roots idio-, "particular to one," and gloss-, "tongue."
 
shelf esteem
  • When someone builds their self esteem from self help books.
My coworker just added Dr. Phil to her shelf esteem library, now everyday at lunch its Dr. P said this Dr. P said that.
 
History
  • Elizabeth I: the "Virgin Queen" of England began her 45-year reign, succeeding her half-sister, Queen Mary, and beginning the Elizabethan era (1558)
  • US Congress: held its first Washington session in the partially completed Capitol building (1800)
  • Suez Canal: 100-mile-(160 km.)-long waterway opened, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas (1869)
  • Heidi bowl: NBC switched from football to Heidi, missing the last 42 seconds of a game when the Raiders came from behind, scoring two touchdowns to beat the Jets, 43-32 (1968)
  • Richard Nixon: declared "I am not a crook" in Orlando, Florida, nine months before resigning over the Watergate scandal (1973)
    STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL aired for the first and last time ever, on CBS (1978)
  • Velvet Revolution: demonstrations began in Czechoslovakia, leading to the fall of the communist government (1989)
Birthdays
  • Louis XVIII (France) 1755
  • Bernard Law Montgomery (Britain) 1887
  • Lee Strasberg 1901
  • Rock Hudson 1925
  • Sir Charles Mackerras 1925
  • Bob Mathias 1930
  • Gordon Lightfoot 1938
  • Gene Clark (Byrds) 1941
  • Martin Scorsese 1942
  • Danny DeVito 1944
  • Lauren Hutton 1944
  • Lorne Michaels 1944
  • Tom Seaver (MLB) 1944
  • Jim Babjak (Smithereens) 1957
  • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 1958
  • William Moses 1959
  • RuPaul 1960
  • Dylan Walsh 1963
  • Daisy Fuentes 1966 (bottom)
  • Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe) 1967
  • Jeff Allen (Mint Condition) 1968
  • Leslie Bib 1973
  • Brandon Call 1976
  • Rachel McAdams 1978
  • Isaac Hanson (Hanson) 1980
  • Justin Cooper 1988


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Daisy Fuentes
 
 
 

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