Sunday, June 25, 2023

torrefy \TAWR-uh-fahy\, verb:

1. To subject to fire or intense heat.

2. In pharmacology, to dry or parch drugs with heat.

3. To roast, as metallic ores.

Torrefy stems from the two Latin roots torrēre "to dry up" and facere "to put, or make so."

 

whom alert

• An alert that is called when one is trying to sound smarter than they really are. In more severe cases, a whence alert may be necessary.

Jim: So Rob, how's that advanced calculus class going?

Martin: I'm not certain for whom the curriculum was written, but I am definitely far too brilliant to be wasting my time on this tripe.

Jim: That's it, buddy! I'm calling a whom alert on you!

History

• Battle of Little Bighorn: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his men were killed by Indians in what became known as "Custer's Last Stand" (1876)
• Douglas Hyde: became the first president of Ireland (1938)
• Korean War: broke out when the communist North invaded the South (1950)
• Yugoslavia: former republics Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence (1991)
• Mir space station: was struck by an unmanned Progress spacecraft (1997)
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Teheran mayor was elected president of Iran (2005)
• Michael Jackson: the "King of Pop" died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles. (2009)

Birthdays

• Rosie O'Neill 1874
• Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886
• George Abbott 1887
• Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900
• Anne Revere 1903
• George Orwell 1903
• Peter Lind Hayes 1915
• Johnny Smith 1922
• Dorothy Gilman 1923
• Sidney Lumet 1924
• June Lockhart 1925
• Eddie Floyd (Falcons) 1935
• Barbara Montgomery 1939
• Clint Warwick (The Moody Blues) 1940
• Willis Reed 1942
• Carly Simon 1945
• Ian McDonald (Foreigner) 1946
• Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) 1946
• Jimmy Walker 1947
• Michael Lembeck 1948
• Phyllis George 1949
• Tim Finn (Split Enz) 1952
• David Paich (Toto) 1954
• George Michael 1963
• Dikembe Mutombo 1966
• Richie Rich 1967
• Candyman 1968
• Sean Kelly (Sixpence None the Richer) 1971
• Michael Kroeger (Michael Douglas Henry Kroeger ) 1972 - Bass player (Nickelback)
• Carlos Delgado 1972
• Mario Calire (Wallflowers) 1974
• Albert Costa 1975
• Linda Cardellini 1975