Thursday, March 2, 2023

wunderkind \VOON-duhr-kint\, noun;

plural wunderkinder \-kin-duhr\:

1. A child prodigy.

2. One who achieves great success or acclaim at an early age.

Wunderkind comes from German, from Wunder, "wonder" + Kind, child.

 

pixel counting

• The act of staring at one's screen to avoid bullshit at work.

Yea I missed the big catastrophe at work today as I was too busy pixel counting.

 

History

• Puerto Rico: became a US territory; its residents gained US citizenship (1917)
• Time: the newsweekly debuted (1923)
• Bill of Rights: the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution were finally ratified by Massachusetts, 147 years after having gone into effect (1939)
• B-50 Superfortress: became the first aircraft to fly around the world nonstop, landing in Fort Worth, Texas, after a flight time of 94:01 (1949)
• Morocco: gained independence from France (1956)
• 100-point game: Wilt Chamberlain set the NBA's single-game scoring record in a Philadelphia Warriors-New York Knicks game; he had not slept and had a hangover (1962)

Birthdays

• Sam Houston 1793 - First President of the Republic of Texas
• Dr. Suess 1904
• Desi Arnaz 1917
• Jennifer Jones 1919 - Actress
• John Cullum 1930 - Actor ("Northern Exposure")
• Tom Wolfe 1931 - Author
• Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 - Former Soviet President
• Al Waxman 1934
• Doug Watkins 1934
• Paul Dino 1939
• Barbara Luna 1939 - Actress
• Jon Finch 1941 - Actor
• John Irving 1942 - Author
• Lou Reed 1942 - Musician (Velvet Underground)
• Eddie Money 1949 - Musician
• Karen Carpenter 1950 - Singer (The Carpenters)
• Cassie Yates 1951 - Actress
• Laraine Newman 1952 - Actress ("Saturday Night Live")
  William Hope 1955 - Actor (ALIENS)
• Jay Osmond 1955 - Singer (The Osmond Brothers)
• Mark Evans 1956 - Musician (AC/DC)
• John Cowsill 1956 - Musician (The Cowsills)
• Kevin Curren 1958
• Larry Stewart 1959 - Musician (Restless Heart)
• Jon Bon Jovi 1962 - Musician (Bon Jovi)
• Daniel Craig 1968 - Actor
• Casey 1976 - Musician (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
• Heather McComb 1977 - Actress ("Party of Five")
• Chris Martin 1977 - Musician (Coldplay)
• Bryce Dallas Howard 1981 - Actress
• Ben Roethlisberger 1982 - Football player
• Robert Iler 1985 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Reggie Bush 1985 - Football player

 

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