Monday, January 02, 2023

Monday, January 2, 2023

nostrum \NOS-truhm\, noun:
1. A medicine of secret composition and unproven or dubious effectiveness; a quack medicine.
2. A usually questionable remedy or scheme; a cure-all.
Nostrum comes from Latin nostrum (remedium), "our (remedy)," from nos, "we."
 
nice
  • Used as a filler during a pause in conversation. Doesn't necessarily mean something complimentary.
"I bought that new Fanta today."
"Nice"

History
  • Granada: last Moorish stronghold in Spain, led by Muhammad XI, surrendered to Roman Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I (1492)
  • Vulcan: the "discovery" of a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury was announced by French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier; it proved to be nonexistent (1860)
  • Russo-Japanese War: ended with Russian General Stoessel's letter of surrender to Japan's General Nogi (1905)
  • 55 mph limit: Congress and President Richard Nixon set a national speed limit to conserve gasoline following the 1973 oil crisis (1974)
    Soleimani: Iranian terror general of Hezbollah was killed with some of his evil cohorts at a Baghdad Airport by way of drone attack ordered by President Donal Trump.  
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Birthdays
  • Nathaniel Bacon 1647
  • Philip Freneau 1752
  • Martha Thomas 1857
  • Sally Rand 1904
  • James Melton 1904
  • Sir Michael Tippett 1905
  • Vera Zorina (Eva Hartwig) 1917
  • Isaac Asimov 1920
  • Renata Tebaldi 1922
  • Anna Lee 1923
  • Jason Evers 1927
  • Gino Marchetti 1927
  • Julius LaRosa 1930
  • Roger Miller 1936
  • Jim Bakker 1939
  • Donald B. Keck 1941
  • Christopher Durang 1949
  • Chick Churchill (Ten Years After) 1949
  • Wendy Phillips 1952
  • imagebam.comJoanna Pacula 1957
  • Gabrielle Carteris 1961
  • Todd Haynes 1961
  • Tia Carrere 1967 
  • Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968
  • Christy Turlington 1969
  • Taye Diggs 1971
  • Paz Vega 1976
  • Kate Bosworth 1983
 

  
 
 
 
 

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