Friday, December 16, 2022

Friday, December 16, 2022

liminal \LIM-uh-nl\, adjective:
Relating to the point beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced.
Liminal derives from the Latin limen, "threshold."
 
Degifting
1. A mutual agreement to suspend holiday gifts for at least one season, usually within a single family or circle of friends.
2. The act of replacing useless and pointless merchandise with something more meaningful, such as a charitable donation, service project or holiday party.
3. Wal-Mart's biggest nightmare.
Due to the recession, we've decided that Degifting is the best plan for Christmas this year. Instead, we're all getting together to serve food at the homeless shelter. I really don't need another Salad Shooter. Do you?
 
History
  • Oliver Cromwell: was sworn in as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland; he reigned for five years, till his death (1653)
  • Boston Tea Party: rebellious American Patriots dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest paying tea taxes to Britain (1773)
  • Battle of the Bulge: German attack began in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium in WWII (1944)
  • Millau Viaduct: taller than the Eiffel Tower and nearly as tall as the Empire State Building, the world's tallest vehicular bridge opened to traffic near Millau, France (2004)
Birthdays
  • Catherine of Aragon 1485
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 - Composer
  • Jane Austen 1775
  • George Santayana 1863
  • Arthur Fieldler 1894
  • Noel Coward 1899 - English actor, playwright and composer
  • Margaret Mead 1901
  • Turk Murphy 1915
  • Arthur C. Clarke 1917 - Author
  • Bruce Ames 1928
  • Philip K. Dick 1928 - Author (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which became the movie BLADERUNNER, among others)
  • Wayne Connelly 1929
  • Shelby Singleton 1931
  • Morris Dees 1936 - Civil rights attorney
  • Joyce Bulifant 1937 - Actress
  • Jim Glaser 1937 - (Tompall and the Glaser Brothers)
  • Liv Ullmann 1939 Actress
  • Leslie Stahl 1941 - CBS news correspondent ("60 Minutes")
  • Paul Butterfield 1942
  • Steven Bochco 1943 - TV producer (NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues)
  • Anthony (Tony) Hicks 1943 - Musician (The Hollies)
  • Benny Andersson 1946 - Singer, keyboards, synthesizers (ABBA)
  • Ben Cross 1948 - Actor
  • Billy Gibbons 1949 - Musician (ZZ Top)
  • Robben Ford 1951
  • Bill Bateman 1951 - Musician (The Blasters)
  • Alison LaPlaca 1959 - Actress
  • Jon Tenney 1961 - Actor (The Closer)
  • Sam Robards 1961 - Actor (American Beauty)
  • William "Refrigerator" Perry 1962 - Football player
  • imagebam.comJeff Carson 1963 - Country singer, songwriter
  • Benjamin Bratt 1963 - Actor
  • Michael McCary 1971 - Singer (Boyz II Men)
  • Krysten Ritter 1981
  • Chris Scruggs 1982 - Country musician
  • Hallee Hirsh 1987 - Actress (JAG)
  • Anna Popplewell 1988 - Actress (The Chronicles of Narnia)
 

 

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