Sunday, July 16, 2023

Sunday, July 16, 2023

abject \ab-JEKT\, adjective:
1. Utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched.
2. Contemptible; despicable.
Abject translates to the Latin equivalent of "thrown down."
 
carmageddon
  • A state of extreme traffic backup where one becomes so frustrated they feel the world is collapsing around them.
I can't believe I had to sit in traffic for three hours after those semi's crashed. It was carmageddon!

History
  • Czar Nicholas II: ruler of Russia was executed, along with his family, by the Bolsheviks, a year after having abdicated (1918)
  • parking meter: was first installed, in Oklahoma City (1935)
  • Trinity test: US exploded the first trial atom bomb in the New Mexico desert, less than a month before bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
  • Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger's novel about adolescent antihero Holden Caulfield was published; it was controversial at the time but is now a staple of school curricula (1951)
  • Apollo 11: the first manned flight to the moon took off from the Kennedy Space Center (1969)
  • Saddam Hussein: became president of Iraq (1979)
  • JFK, Jr.: died with wife Carolyn and her sister in a plane crash (1999)
Birthdays
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723
  • Mary Baker Eddy 1821
  • Ida Bell Wells 1862
  • Roald Amundsen 1872
  • Trygve Lie 1896
  • Barbara Stanwyck 1907
  • Orville Redenbacher 1907
  • Ginger Rogers 1911
  • Barnard Hughes 1915
  • Bess Myerson 1924
  • Nat Pierce 1925
  • Cal Tjader 1925
  • Joey Giardello 1930
  • William Bell 1939
  • Corin Redgrave 1939
  • Tony Jackson (Searchers) 1940
  • Desmond Dekker 1942
  • Margaret Court 1942
  • Jimmy Johnson (NFL) 1943
  • Ruben Blades 1948
  • Pinchas Zukerman 1948
  • Stewart Copeland (Police) 1952
  • Michael Flatley 1958
  • Phoebe Cates 1963
  • Will Ferrell 1967
  • Barry Sanders 1968
  • Ed Kowalczyk (Live) 1971
  • Corey Scott Feldman 1971
  • Rosa Salazar 1985 - Battle Angel Alita


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