Friday, July 21, 2023

detente \dey-TAHNT\, noun:

• A relaxing of tension, especially between nations.

Detente borrows from the French word that means "a loosening," related to an Old French word for the catch of a crossbow.

 

cinephile

• A film or movie enthusiast.

A lot of cinephiles enjoy Pulp Fiction.

baxoteric

• the baxojayz initiated; those who are aware of and follow t3h bax0jayz. 
• also bax0teric, t3h bax0t3ric

one: why did Kate leave Len?

two: she found out he wasn't baxoteric

History

• Temple of Artemis: marble shrine that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was burned down by a fame-seeking young man, Herostratus (356 BCE)
• Bull Run: Confederate forces won the first major battle of the Civil War; Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquired his nickname "Stonewall" (1861)
• Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching Darwinism in a Tennessee high school (1925)
• 17th parallel: following defeat at Dien Bien Phu, France agreed to withdraw troops from communist North Vietnam (1954)
• Aswan Dam: was completed, preventing Nile floods and providing electricity and water for Egypt and Sudan (1970)
• WorldCom: filed for bankruptcy about a month after revealing deceptive accounting had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion; it was the largest bankruptcy in US history (2002)

Birthdays

• • Jean Picard (1620-1682): astronomer, the first to measure a degree of the Earth's latitude

  • Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist

    
  • Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar
  • Isaac Stern 1920 - Violinist
  • Kay Starr 1922 - Singer
  • Don Knotts 1924 - Actor
  • Paul Burke 1926 - Actor
  • Norman Jewison 1926 - Film director, producer, actor, founder of the Canadian Film Centre
  • Janet Reno 1938 - Attorney General of the U.S. (1993-2001)
  • Kim Fowley 1942 - Record producer, songwriter, musician
  • David Downing 1943 - Actor
  • Edward Herrmann 1943 - Actor
  • Leigh Lawson 1945 - Actor, director, writer
  • Cat Stevens 1947 - Musician
  • Robin Williams 1952 - Actor, comedian
  • Jon Lovitz 1957 - Actor ("Saturday Night Live") comedian, singer
  • Henry Priestman (Henry Christian Priestman) 1958 - Singer, musician (The Christians)
  • Lance Guest 1960 - Actor
  • Matt Mulhern 1960 - Actor
  • Jim Martion 1961 - Musician (Faith No More)
  • Emerson Hart 1969 - Musician (Tonic)
  • Paul Brandt (Paul Rennee Belobersycky) 1972 - Country musician
  • Gary Whitta 1972 - Author, screenwriter, video game designer
  • Josh Hartnett 1978 - Actor