Saturday, June 24, 2023

Saturday, June 24, 2023

sabbatical \suh-BAT-i-kuhl\, noun:
  1. Any extended period of leave from one's customary work, especially for rest, to acquire new skills or training, etc.
adjective:
  1. Of or pertaining to or appropriate to the Sabbath.
  2. Bringing a period of rest.
Sabbatical originates in reference to the Judeo-Christian Sabbath, and comes from the Greek sabbatikos.
 
curb shame
  • Embarrassment at waiting on the curb obediently as other pedestrians ignore the "don't walk" signal in the absence of traffic.
I couldn't stand the curb shame any longer so I crossed with everyone else, even though I needed a break from running all around town.

History
  • dancing mania: first major outbreak of this phenomenon — wild, uncontrollable dancing, accompanied by hallucinations, to the point of exhaustion — occurred in Aachen, Germany (1374)
  • John Cabot: explorer became the first European to sight the continent of North America (1497)
  • Henry VIII: crowned king of England (1509)
  • flying saucer: Kenneth Arnold described UFOs he had seen near Mt. Rainier, Washington, as "saucers skipping across the water" (1947); the Roswell Report closed the case on other alleged sightings of UFOs near Roswell, New Mexico (1997)
  • Berlin blockade: Soviet Union prevented delivery of supplies to Berlin; Allied forces began the Berlin airlift in response (1948)
  • FTC: required that a message be placed on all cigarette packages to warn consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health (1964)
Birthdays
  • E.I. Du Pont 1771
  • Ambrose Bierce 1842
  • Jack Dempsey 1895
  • Irving Kaufman 1910
  • Norman Cousins 1912
  • John Ciardi 1916
  • Al Molinaro 1919
  • Manny Albam 1922
  • Billy Casper 1931
  • Peter Hamill 1935
  • Michele Lee 1942
  • Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac) 1942
  • Georg Stanford Brown 1943
  • Arthur Brown 1944
  • Jeff Beck (Yardbirds) 1944
  • John ‘Charlie’ Whitney (Family) 1944
  • Colin Blunstone 1945
  • Ellison S. Onizuka 1946
    Patrick Moraz (musician: Yes, Moody Blues) 1948
  • John Illsley (Dire Straits) 1949
  • Nancy Allen 1950
  • Derrick Simpson (Black Uhuru) 1950
  • Astro (UB40) 1957
  • Andrew McCluskey (OMD) 1959
  • Curt Smith (Tears For Fears) 1961
  • Danielle Spencer 1965
  • Sherry Stringfield 1967
  • Jeff Cease (The Black Crowes) 1967
  • Glenn Medeiros 1970
  • Minka Kelly 1980
    Erin Moriarty 1994 (Starlight from The Boys)
  
  

 

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