de rigueur \duh ri-GUR\, adjective:
- Strictly required, as by etiquette, usage, or fashion.
De rigueur literally means "of strictness" in French.
X-rayted
- TSA rating for airport, naked body scan images.
Scanner Operator: "Hey Sarge, check out these X-rayted pics that I scanned this afternoon".
History
- March to the Sea: Union commander Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began his attack "into the very bowels of the Confederacy" during the American Civil War (1864)
- Brazil: became a republic when its emperor, Pedro II, was deposed (1889)
- Wendy's: the first branch of the fast food chain was opened by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio (1969)
- Moratorium to end the war in Vietnam: up to an estimated half-million protesters marched peacefully on Washington, DC (1969)
- William Pitt the Elder 1708 - Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Gerhart Hauptmann 1862
- Georgia O'Keeffe 1887
- Joseph Wapner 1919
- Ed Asner 1929
- Whitman Mayo 1930
- Petula Clark 1932
- Jack Burns 1933
- Joanna Barnes 1934
- Barry McGuire 1937
- Sam Waterston 1940
- Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945
- Mitch Easter 1954
- Beverly D'Angelo 1954
- Kevin Eubanks 1957
- E-40 1967
- ODB (Wu Tang Clan) 1968
- Jack Ingram 1970
- Chad Robert Kroeger 1974 - Singer/Guitarist (Nickelback)
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