Monday, February 20, 2023

malinger \muh-LING-guhr\, intransitive verb:

• To feign or exaggerate illness or inability in order to avoid duty or work.

Malinger derives from French malingre, "sickly," perhaps from Old French mal, "badly" + heingre, "lean, thin."

 

first

• a word that is said when you are the first one to post a comment on a video, picture, article on the net(looking at video on collegehumor.com.. there are no comments yet)

you writing the first comment : fIRST

Holiday

• Presidents' Day - The third Monday in February, observed in the United States as a legal holiday in commemoration of the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

History

• scalping: first recorded case of white men scalping Native Americans (1725)

  
• United States Post Office Department: was established when George Washington signed the Postal Service Act; it lasted until 1971, when it was replaced with the United States Postal Service (1792)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: opened in New York City, aiming to promote class harmony through art (1872)
• Canberra: colorful politician King O'Malley drove in the stake which marked the beginning of the development of Australia's capital city (1913)
• 1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
• 1965 - Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.
• 1970 - John Lennon's "Instant Karma" was released in the U.S.
• 2003 - In West Warwick, RI, 99 people were killed when fire destroyed the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for Great White, was one of the victims in the fire.

Birthdays

• William Prescott 1726 - American Revolutionary soldier, know for the quote "Don't fire until you see the white's of their eyes."
• Joseph Jefferson 1829 - Actor ("Rip Van Winkle")
• Ansel Adams 1902 - Artist

  
• Aleksei Kosygin 1904 - Soviet premier from 1964-1980
• Carl Stotz 1910 - Founded Little League baseball organization
• John Daly 1914 - Reporter, TV host ("What's My Line")
• Chick (Melvin) Harbert 1915 - Golfer
• Kenneth H. Olsen 1926
• Sidney Poitier 1927 - Actor ("Lillies of the Field", "To Sir With Love")
• Gloria Vanderbilt 1924 - Fashion designer
• Robert Altman 1925 - Director ("M*A*S*H")
• Bob Richards 1926 - Olympic pole-vaulter
• Roy Face (Roy Elroy Leon) 1928 - Baseball player

  
• Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill) 1929 - Actress ("Gunsmoke", "The Glass Slipper")
• Patricia Smith 1930 - Actress ("Save the Tiger")
• Bobby Unser 1934 - Race car driver
• Marj Dusay 1936
• Nancy Wilson 1937 - Singer
• Roger Penske 1937 - Race car driver
• Richard Beymer 1938 - Actor ("The Diary of Anne Frank", "West Side Story")
• Barbara Ellis 1939 - Musician (Fleetwoods)
• Buffy (Beverly) Sainte-Marie 1941 - Singer, songwriter
• Clyde Wright 1941 - Baseball player
• Phil Esposito 1942 - Hockey player

  
• Sandy Duncan 1946 - Dancer, actress ("Peter Pan", "Roots")
• Brenda Blethyn 1946
• Jerome Geils 1946 - Musician (The J. Geils Band)
• Peter Strauss 1947 - Actor ("Peter Gunn", "The Yearling")
• Jennifer O'Neill 1948 - Actress ("Summer of '42")
• Pierre Bouchard 1948 - Hockey player
• Ivana Trump 1949
• Walter Becker 1950 - Musician (Steely Dan)
• Edward Albert 1951 - Actor ("Mind Games", "The Heist", "Guarding Tess")

  
• Kathie Baillie 1951
• Randy California (Wolfe) 1951 - Singer (Spirit)
  Anthony Stewart Head 1954 - actor (Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Patty Hearst (Patricia Hearst Shaw) 1954 - Publishing heiress, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and ultimately joined her captors, pardoned by President Clinton
• James Wilby 1958 - Actor ("A Summer Story", "Dreamchild")
• Sebastian Steinberg 1959 - Musician (Soul Coughing)
• Joel Hodgson 1960
• Charles Barkley 1963 - Basketball player
• Ian Brown 1963 - Singer (Stone Roses)
• French Stewart 1964
• Cindy Crawford 1966 - Supermodel, actress ("Fair Game")
• Lili Taylor 1967 - Actress
• Andrew Shue 1967 - Actor ("Melrose Place")
• Kurt Cobain 1967 - Musician, singer (Nirvana)
• Brian Littrell 1975 - Singer (The Backstreet Boys)
• Jay Hernandez 1978 - Actor
• Majandra Delfino 1981 - Actress
• Chris Thile 1981 - Musician (Nickel Creek)
• Jack Richardson 1985
• Rihanna - 1989