Friday, January 13, 2023

Friday, January 13, 2023: Friday the Thirteenth!


FRIDAY THE 13TH!


triskaidekaphobia \ tris-kahy-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, tris-kuh- \ , noun;
  • fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. 
Origin: Triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek word for thirteen, triskaídeka and the Greek word for fear, phobos . It entered English in the early 1900s.






creolize \KREE-uh-lahyz\, verb:
1. To combine local and foreign elements into a new, distinct whole.
2. To render a pidgin into a distinct, spoken language.
Creolize is a verb alteration of creole, which derives from the Spanish criollo, "a person native to a locality."
 
hahaha
  • To express on IM or SMS when something was funny, because just 'haha' or 'LOL' isn't that dramatic and can be used as just acknowledging when someone has said something.
Bobby31: ...they call it cheese and quackers!
Annette85: haha
Bobby31: oh come on it was funnier than that
Annette85: hahaha

Holiday
  • Friday the 13th: No one really knows the origin of the superstition about Friday the 13th, although in Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, he suggested that it started with the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.





History
  • J'accuse: French journalist Emile Zola published his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, the army captain falsely convicted of treason because he was Jewish (1898)
  • Henry Ford: patented his plastic car, which ran on ethanol; the plastic was soybean-based, and the car was unsuccessful (1942)
  • L. Douglas Wilder: became the first African American elected governor of a US state — Virginia (1990)
  • The Fantasticks: the world's longest-running musical ended its off-Broadway run after 17,162 shows and nearly 42 years (2002)
Birthdays
  • Horatio Alger 1834
  • Sophie Tucker 1884
  • Alfred Fuller 1885
  • Earle Wheeler 1908
  • Butter (Quentin) Jackson 1909
  • Jeff Morrow 1913
  • Robert Stack 1919
  • Gwen Verdon 1926
  • Liz Anderson 1930
  • Frances Sternhagen 1930
  • Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester (The Chi-Lites) 1930
  • Charles Nelson Reilly 1931
    Rip Taylor 1934
  • Billy Gray 1938
  • Richard Moll 1943
  • Trevor Rabin (Yes) 1954
  • Kevin Anderson 1960
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1961
  • Graham McPherson (Madness) 1961
  • Penelope Ann Miller 1964
  • Patrick Dempsey 1966
  • Tim Kelly (Slaughter) 1967
  • Anna Marie Goddard 1970 (actress / playmate)
  • Nicole Eggert 1972
    Orlando Bloom 1977 
    Liam Hemsworth 1990 (Thor)



 
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