handsel \HAN-suhl\, noun:
- First encounter with or use of something taken as a token of what will follow.
- A gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes.
- A first installment of payment.
Handsel is a venerable English word, literally consisting of "hand" and an early word for "gift."
JFC
- Acronym for Jesus Fucking Christ
Matt: Dude, Conny fucked another random guy today!
Brad: JFC!
History
- Caracas: Captain Diego de Losada founded Venezuela's capital, then known as Santiago de Leon de Caracas (1567)
- Henry IV of France: embraced Roman Catholicism for the second time; he had abandoned Protestantism in order to win Paris (1593)
- General of the Army: Ulysses S. Grant became the first officer to hold the US army's highest rank (1866)
- Bikini Atoll: America tested the first underwater atomic bomb (1946)
- Rock band YES released their debut album (1969)
test-tube baby: Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England (1978)
Birthdays
- Thomas Eakins 1844
- Morris Raphel Cohen 1880
- Walter Brennan 1894
- Eric Hoffer 1902
- Jack Gilford 1907
- Estelle Getty 1924
- Stanley Dancer 1927
- Don Ellis 1934
- Barbara Harris 1935
- John Pennel 1940
- Manuel Charlton (Nazareth) 1941
- Janet Margolin 1943
- Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) 1943
- Donna Theodore 1945
- Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) 1951
- Walter Payton (NFL) 1954
- Iman 1955
- Ray Billingsley 1957
- Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) 1958
- Marty Brown 1965
- Illeana Douglas 1965
- Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")
- Brad Renfro 1982
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