Friday, December 15, 2023

veriest \VER-ee-ist\, adjective:

1. Utmost; most complete.

2. Superlative of very.

Veriest is obviously related to the word very, which derives from the Old French word verai meaning “true, real or genuine.” The suffix -est makes a word a superlative, like fastest.

 

Banker's Dozen

• The opposite of a Baker's Dozen where the customer receives 13 of a product for the price of 12; in a Banker's Dozen the customer receives 11 of the product for the price of 12

Hector was surprised to find only 11 glasses in his gift of 12 glasses that he received from the bank. Later, Hector learned that the Bank offers a Banker's Dozen in their gifts and products, in which they steal one item.

History

• Bill of Rights: the right to bear arms as well as freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and more became United States law when the states ratified Amendments I-X of the US Constitution (1791)

  
• Sitting Bull: Lakota Sioux military and spiritual leader who defeated Gen. Custer at Little Bighorn was killed (1890)
• Gone With the Wind: Civil War-era epic film premiered in Atlanta (1939)
• Adolf Eichmann: an Israeli court sentenced to death the former Nazi official who had zealously supported the use of gas chambers to exterminate the Jews in WWII (1961)
• flag of Canada: Canada adopted its national flag, a red maple leaf on a white background (1964)
• Romanian Revolution: popular uprising began, leading to the downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu (1989)

Birthdays

• Nero (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) 37 AD - Fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
• George Romney 1734 - English portrait painter
• Gustave Eiffel 1832 - Engineer: designed Paris’ Eiffel Tower and helped design Statue of Liberty
• Ludwig (Lazarus) Zamenhof 1859 - Linguist, developed international language: Esperanto
• Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey (John Edward Kelly) 1862 - Boxer
• J. Paul Getty 1892 - Oil magnate: Getty Oil
• Buddy (Edwin) Cole 1916 - Pianist (The Buddy Cole Trio)
• Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel) 1918 - Actor (Merrill’s Marauders, Return to Peyton Place, Broken Arrow)
• Eddie (William Edward) Robinson - 1920 - Baseball player
• Alan Freed 1922 - Disc jockey in Cleveland
• Jerry Wallace 1928 - Singer, actor (Hec Ramsey)
• Jimmy Nelson 1928 - Ventriloquist
• Ernest Ashworth 1928 - Country singer
• Friedrich Hundertwasser 1928 - Artist, printer, painter, ecologist
• Edna O'Brien 1931 - Author (Time and Tide, Country Girls Trilogy)
• Jessie Belvin 1967 - Singer
• Clyde McPhatter 1932 - Musician (Dominoes, Drifters)
• Tim Conway 1933 - Actor, comedian (McHale’s Navy, The Tim Conway Show, The Carol Burnett Show)

  
• Cindy Birdsong 1939 - Singer (Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles, Diana Ross and The Supremes)
• Nick Buoniconti 1940 - Football Hall of Famer, football analyst (HBO: Inside the NFL)
• Dave Clark 1942 - Singer (The Dave Clark Five), TV producer, actor
• Pete Duranko 1943 - Football player
• Stan (Stanley Raymond) Bahnsen 1944 - Baseball player
• Carmine Appice 1946 - Musician (Vanilla Fudge)
• Doug (Douglas James) Rau 1948 - Baseball player
• Charlie Scott 1948 - Basketball player
• Don Johnson (Donnie Wayne Johnson) 1949 - Actor (Nash Bridges, Miami Vice)
• Alex Cox 1954 - Movie director (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy)
• Justin Ross 1954 - Actor
• Paul Simonon 1955 - Musician (Clash)
• Doug Phelps 1960 - Singer (Kentucky Headhunters)
• Reginald Hudlin 1961 - Director (The Great White Hype)
• Daryl Turner 1961 - Football player
• Helen Slater 1963 - Actress (City Slickers, Ruthless People)
• Molly Price 1965 - Actress
• Michael Shanks 1970 - Actor (Stargate SG-1, The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon)
• Stuart Townsend 1972 - Actor (Venice Project, 24 Hours)
• Kito Trawick 1977 - "Crowd-hyper" (Ghostown DJs)
• Adam Brody 1979 - Actor (The O.C.)
• George O. Gore II 1981 - Actor (My Wife and Kids)