Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

zugzwang \TSOOK-tsvahng\, noun:
  • A situation in which a player is limited to moves that have a damaging effect.
Zugzwang combines two German words, zug, "move," and zwang, "constraint."
 
skin-thirty
  • a reply from someone who doesn't have a watch, usually said after someone asks what time it is.
1: Hey, what time is it?
2: (looks at their watchless wrist) It's skin-thirty.

baxolicious
  • The superlative of donovanesque.
As donovanesque as Bateman's ex-girlfriend is, she cannot hold a candle to the baxolicious Stacey.


History
  • Franco-Prussian War: began after Bismarck provoked France; it ended in Germany's unification and the deposition of Napoleon III (1870)
  • Holbrook, Arizona: a meteorite weighing nearly 200 kg exploded over Earth, showering the Navajo County town with debris (1912)
  • V for Victory: British PM Winston Churchill launched WWII campaign (1941)
  • "Don't ask; don't tell": policy on gays in the US military was announced by president Bill Clinton (1993)
Birthdays
  • Samuel Colt 1814
  • Edgar Degas 1834
  • Lizzie Borden 1860
  • Charles Horace Mayo 1865
  • Percy Lebaron Spencer 1894
  • A.J. Cronin 1896
  • Charles Teagarden 1913
  • Rosalyn Yalow 1921
  • George McGovern 1922
  • Pat Hingle 1924
  • Sue Thompson 1926
  • Helen Gallagher 1926
  • Buster Benton 1932
  • Philip Agee 1935
  • George Hamilton IV 1937
  • Richard Jordan 1938
  • Vikki Carr 1941
  • Natalya Bessmertnova 1941
  • Dennis Cole 1943
  • George Dzundza 1945
  • Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) 1946
  • Brian Harold May (Queen) 1947
  • Bernie Leadon (The Eagles) 1947
  • Beverly Archer 1948
  • Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) 1948
  • Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1952
  • Peter Barton 1956
  • Danny Chauncey (.38 Special) 1956
  • Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets) 1960
  • Campbell Scott 1962
  • Anthony Edwards 1962
  • Kelly Shiver (Thrasher Shiver) 1963
  • Clea Lewis 1965
  • Jared Padalecki 1982 - Actor ("Supernatural")


 
 
 

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