Sunday, March 19, 2023

interregnum \in-tuhr-REG-nuhm\, noun;

plural interregnums \-nuhmz\ or interregna \-nuh\:

1. The interval between two reigns; any period when a state is left without a ruler.

2. A period of freedom from authority or during which government functions are suspended.

3. Any breach of continuity in an order; a lapse or interval in a continuity.

Interregnum is from the Latin, from inter, "between" + regnum, "dominion, reign, rule," from rex, "king."

 

Concert Hangover

• The feeling of grogginess and/or deafness after attending a loud concert.

"Wow, I had a lot of fun at that Boys Like Girls concert last night."

"Me too, but now I have a terrible concert hangover."

 

Trivia

What are you afraid of if you have catoptrophobia?

• Mirrors.

History

• bank robbery: the first recorded bank heist took place in NYC; Edward Smith escaped with some $245,000, but was later caught and imprisoned (1831)
• SS Georgiana: Confederate ship was wrecked (1863); it was discovered on the same date in 1965 by underwater archeologist E. Lee Spence in his teenage years
• 25th Academy Awards: was the first televised Oscar ceremony (1953)
• Sarajevo: became a reunited city after four years when the Serbs were ousted by the Moslem-Croatians
• invasion of Iraq: began (on March 20 local time in Iraq, 2003)
• GRB 080319B: gamma-ray burst was detected, thus setting a record for farthest object that could be seen by the naked eye (2008)

Birthdays

• William Bradford 1589

  
• David Livingston 1813
• Sir Richard Burton 1821
• Albert Ryder 1847
• Wyatt Earp 1848
• William Jennings Bryan 1860
• Charles M. Russell 1864
• Edith Nourse Rogers 1881
• Earl Warren 1891
• Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley 1894
• John Sirica 1904
• Adolph Eichmann 1906
• Patricia Morrison 1914
• Irving Wallace 1916
• Martha Carson 1921
• Tige Andrews 1923
• Hans Kung 1928 - Theologian
• Patrick McGoohan 1928 - Actor, director
• Gene Taylor 1929
• Bill Henderson 1930
• Ornette Coleman 1930 - Jazz saxophonist
• Gay Brewer Jr. 1932
• Philip Roth 1933 - Author
• Renee Taylor 1933 - Actress
• Nancy Malone 1935
• Phyllis Newman 1935 - Actress, singer
• Ursula Andress 1936 - Actress
• Clarence "Frogman" Henry 1937 - Singer
• Robin Luke 1942
• Paul Atkinson 1946 - Musician (The Zombies)
• Ruth Pointer 1946 - Singer (The Pointer Sisters)
• Glenn Close 1947 - Actress
• Chris Brubeck 1952
• Bruce Willis 1955 - Actor ("Die Hard", "The Sixth Sense")
• Derek Longmuir 1955 - (The Bay City Rollers)
• Terry Hall 1959 - (Specials, Fun Boy 3, Colourfield)
• Gert Bettens 1970 - Musician (K's Choice)
• Vida Guerra 1974 - bootay model
• Zach Lind 1976 - Musician (Jimmy Eat World)
• Anne V 1987 - Sports Illustrated swimsuit model
• Craig Lamar Traylor 1989 - Actor ("Malcolm in the Middle")
  Caylee Cowan 1998 - Actress