marginalia \mahr-juh-NEY-lee-uh\, noun:
- Notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter.
Marginalia derives from the Latin marginalis, "the space or edge of something, or something of little importance."
Backseat Browser
- Anyone who sits behind a someone who is browsing the Internet while continuously instructing them on what to click on or what to type into the address/search bar. Most appropriately applied when the advice or commands are unsolicited and/or unwarranted.
Matt grew increasingly frustrated with Patrick, acting as a Backseat Browser, when he wouldn't stop telling Matt what links he should click on next.
- guillotine: highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was beheaded in France's first public execution-by-guillotine (1792)
- Suez Canal: ground was broken on the waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea (1859)
- license plates: were required on cars in New York State — the first time in the US (1901)
- United Nations: delegates met in San Francisco to organize the international body (1945)
- double helix: in the magazine Nature, Francis Crick and James D. Watson published their "Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid," which described the structure of DNA (1953)
Birthdays
- Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader
- Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system)
- Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist
- Earl Bostic 1913 - Musician
- Sal Franzella 1915 - Musician
- Jerry Barber 1916 - Golfer
- Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella"
- Albert King 1923 - Musician
- Anita Bjorak 1923 - Actress
- Melissa Hayden 1923 - Dancer
- Vassar Clements 1928 - Musician
- Paul Mazursky 1930 - Actor, director
- Willis "Gator" Jackson 1932 - Saxaphonist
- Meadowlark Lemon 1932 - Basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters
- Jerry Leiber 1933 - Songwriter
- Anthony Lukas 1933 - Journalist, author
- Al Pacino 1940 - Actor
- Stu Cook 1945 - Musician (CCR)
- Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)
- Talia Shire 1946 - Actress ("The Godfather", "Rocky" film series)
- Jeffrey De Munn 1947 - Actor ("The Green Mile", "The Shawshank Redemption")
- Michael Brown 1949 - Musician (The Left Banke)
- Hank Azaria 1964 - Actor
- Andy Bell 1964 - Musician (Erasure)
- James Barbour 1965 - Actor, singer ("A Tale of Two Cities")
- Eric Avery 1965 - Musician (Jane's Addiction)
- Jane Clayson 1967 - Television host, journalist, author
- Renée Zellweger 1969 - Actress
- Jason Lee 1970 - Actor ("My Name is Earl")
- Emily Bergl 1975 - Actress ("The Rage: Carrie 2")
- Tim Duncan 1976 - Basketball player
- Sara Paxton 1988 - ActressAdria Arjona 1992 - actress
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