Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

attenuate \uh-TEN-yoo-eyt\, verb:
1. To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value
2. To make thin; make slender or fine.
3. In medicine, to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.
4. In electronics, to decrease the amplitude of an electronic signal.
Attenuate is based on the Latin attenuāre, "to thin, reduce."
 
Macaroni and Sneeze
  • A regular for lunch at institutions such as public schools, hospitals (esp. mental), and the military/boot camp. Any kind of pasta dish consisting of ingredients/prepared by individuals you are unsure of.
The lunch lady had something hanging from her nose on Monday, the same day we had Macaroni and Sneeze...

History
  • Joseph Smith: the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was killed by an anti-Mormon mob in Illinois (1844)
  • Joshua Slocum: Canadian adventurer landed at Newport, Rhode Island, becoming the first to circumnavigate the world on his own (1898)
  • Newbery Medal: was first awarded, to Hendrik Willem van Loon for The Story of Mankind (1922)
  • paintball: the first game was played, in New Hampshire (1981)
  • US National Do Not Call Registry: opened for business; almost ¾ of a million phone numbers were signed up on its first day in a stand against unwanted telemarketing (2003)
Birthdays
  • Louis XII (France) 1462
  • Charles XII (Sweden) 1682
  • Charles Stewart Parnell 1846
  • Mildred J. Hill 1859
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872
  • Helen Keller 1880
  • John McIntire (actor) 1907
  • Audrey Christie 1911
  • Willie Mosconi 1913
  • Ben Homer 1917
  • I.A.L. Diamond 1920
  • Elmo Hope 1923
  • Rosalie Allen 1924
  • Jerome ‘Doc’ Pomus 1925
  • Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan 1927
  • H. Ross Perot 1930
  • Charles Bronfman 1931
  • Anna Moffo 1934
  • Shirley Anne Field 1938
  • Sandra Smith 1940
  • Frank Mills 1942
  • Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) 1944
  • Norma Kamili 1945
  • Julia Duffy 1951
  • Isabelle Adjani 1955
  • Lorrie Morgan 1959
  • Brian Dillinger 1960
    J. J. Abrams 1966
  • Tobey Maguire 1975
  • Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer) 1976
  • Madylin Sweeten 1991
    Chandler Riggs (TWD) 1999 
 
 
 
 
 

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