Wednesday, May 3, 2023

purlieu \PUR-loo\, noun:

1. A place where one may range at large; confines or bounds.
2. A person's haunt or resort.
3. An outlying district or region, as of a town or city.
4. A piece of land on the edge of a forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership, though still subject, in some respects, to the operation of the forest laws.

Purlieu is an alteration (simulating French lieu, "place") of earlier parlewe, "of a forest."

 
career tragectory

• a career path marked by increasing amounts of tragedy, lameness, futility, ineptitude, respect, and/or pay.

Vic's career tragectory included starting at Lehman Brothers, then Bernie Madoff's firm, then jail, and now he's working at the Wendy's drive-thru.
 
Trivia
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, what was the name of Tom’s half-brother?

• Sid.

History

• Jamaica: Christopher Columbus sighted the island while seeking China (1494)
• Nellie Tayloe Ross: the nation's first female governor was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as director of the US Mint — another first for women (1933)
• The Fantasticks: began its record off-Broadway run, playing for nearly 42 years and over 17,000 performances (1960)
• NPR: America's noncommercial radio network began programming (1971)
• Margaret Thatcher: Conservative Party leader became Britain's first female prime minister (1979)
• UN Commission on Human Rights: the US lost its seat for the first time in more than 50 years (2001); it was restored a year later
• Old Man of the Mountain: New Hampshire's symbol — a mountainous outcrop — collapsed in the White Mountains (2003)

Birthdays

• Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - Italian philosopher/writer
• Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel
• Bing Crosby 1903 - Singer, according to Bing Crosby his birthday is May 2nd, his birthday is actually May 3
• Norman Corwin 1910 - Writer, screenwriter, producer
• Virgil Fox 1912 - Organist
• Pete Seeger 1919 - Folk singer
• Betty Comden 1919 - Comden of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green
• Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.) 1921 - Boxer
• Joe Ames 1924 - Musician (The Ames Brothers)
• Jimmy Cleveland 1926 - Trombone player
• Dave Dudley 1928 - Country music singer
• James Brown (James Joseph Brown, Jr.) 1933 - Singer
• Joe Layton 1931 - Director, choreographer
• Alex Cord 1933 - Actor ("Airwolf")
• Frankie Valli 1934 - Musician (The Four Seasons)
• Rudolf "Rudy" Jacobs 1938 - Chemist, received Nobel Prize in 1992
• Samantha Eggar 1939 - Actress
  Pete Staples 1944 - Musician (The Troggs)
• Greg Gumble 1946 - Sportscaster
• Doug Henning 1947 - Magician, illusionist, escape artist
• Mary Hopkin 1950 - Folk singer
• Christopher Cross (Christopher Charles Geppert) 1951 - Singer, songwriter
• Bruce Hall 1953 - Musician (REO Speedwagon)
• Cactus Moser 1957 - Musician (Highway 101)
• David Ball 1959 - Musician (Soft Cell)
• Bobby Cannavale 1970 - Actor
• Christina Hendricks 1975 actress
• Dule' Hill 1975 - Actor ("The West Wing")
• Farrah Destiny Franklin 1981 - Singer (Destiny's Child)
• Joseph Addai 1983 - Football player
• Cheryl Burke 1984 - Dancer ("Dancing with the Stars")