paralipsis \par-uh-LIP-sis\, noun:
- The suggestion, by deliberately brief treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted, as in "not to mention other faults."
Paralipsis owes its English sense to the Greek paraleíp(ein), "to leave on one side."
Labor Day
- The holiday at the beginning of when school starts that nobody really knows what it means.
Hey When's Labor Day?
Next weekend Foo'
Oh Man! Yes! ..Whats Labor Day anyway?
I don't know Cuh'
Trivia
In days of yore, what was the occupation of a whacker?
- Driver of a team of horses or oxen. (get your mind out of the gutter!)
History
- Continental Congress: delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) convened in Philadelphia to seek repeal of the British Intolerable Acts (1774)
- Sam Houston: was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas (1836)
- On the Road: Jack Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness novel, considered a defining work of the Beat Generation, was published (1957)
- Munich Massacre: Palestinian terrorists of the Black September group murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics (1972)
- Louis VIII (King of France) 1187
- Louis XIV (King of France) 1638
- Johann Christian Bach 1735
- Jesse James 1847
- Morris Carnovsky 1897
- Arthur Charles Nielsen 1897
- Florence Eldridge 1901
- Darryl F. Zanuck 1902
- Arthur Koestler 1905
- John Cage 1912
- Gail Kubik 1914
- Jack Buetel 1917
- Jack Valenti 1921
- Bob Newhart 1929
- Andrian G Nikolayev 1929
- Robert Dennard 1932
- Carol Lawrence 1935
- John Ferguson 1938
- William Devane 1939
- Clay Regazzoni 1939
- Susumu Tonegawa 1939
- John Stewart (The Kingston Trio) 1939
- Raquel Welch 1940
- Eduardo Mata 1942
- Steve Miller 1943
- Al Stewart 1945
- Buddy Miles 1946
- Loudon Wainwright III 1946
- Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946
- Kathy Cronkite 1950
- Cathy Lee Guisewaite 1950
- Jamie Oldaker (The Tractors) 1951
- Sandra Guiboard 1956
- Kristian Alfonso 1964
- Terry Ellis (En Vogue) 1966
- Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine) 1968
- Dweezil Zappa 1969
- Tina Yothers 1973
- Rose McGowan 1974
- Andrew Ducote 1986
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