Wednesday, January 3, 2024

instauration [in-staw-rey-shuh n] noun 

1. renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
2. Obsolete. an act of instituting something; establishment.

ORIGIN: English instauration comes directly from the Latin noun instaurātiōn- (stem of instaurātiō) “renewal, repetition,” a derivative of instaurāre “to renew, repeat,” originally “to set up stakes or poles (in building),” from the obsolete noun staurus. The Latin root of the verb and noun is stau-, an uncommon extension of the Proto-Indo-European root stā-. The same rare variant also appears in Greek staurόs “upright stake, pile (for a foundation).” Staurόs is also the word used in the gospels, e.g., Matthew 27:40, for the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Instauration entered English in the early 17th century.

Neg Larynx

• Basically a short version of a long and negative answer.
• Negative = Neg
• Larynx = noise, chat, etc

1: Did the guy have any Potent Chronic ?

2: Neg Larynx, he did have some shitty schwag though.

Trivia

According to ufologists, what is a close encounter of the fourth kind?

• The abduction of a human by an extraterrestrial. A close encounter of the third kind is the sighting of an extraterrestrial.

History

• Meiji Restoration: re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and led to the fall of the shoguns (1868)
• the Curse of the Bambino: Red Sox losing streak began with the team's sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees; it lasted till 2004 (1920)
• March of Dimes: fundraising organization was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise funds for the battle against poliomyelitis; it later expanded its aim to the prevention of premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality (1938)
• Alaska: the territory once known as Seward's Folly became the 49th and largest US state (1959)

Birthdays

• Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 B.C.
• Lucretia Mott 1793

  
• Clement Attlee 1883
• Anna Pavlova 1885
• J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 (LOTR)
• Marion Davies 1897
• Zasu Pitts 1898
• Ray Milland 1905
• Victor Borge 1909
• Joseph Rauh 1911
• Maxene Andrews (The Andrews Sisters) 1916
• John Russell 1921
• Bill Travers 1922
• Hank Stram 1924
• George Martin 1926
• Joan Walsh Anglund 1926
• Robert Loggia 1930
• Dabney Coleman 1932
• Coo Coo (Clifton) Marlin 1932
• Bobby Hull (NHL) 1939
• Van Dyke Parks 1943

• Victoria Principal 1944
• Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield) 1945
• Betty Rollin 1946
• John Paul Jones (Baldwin) 1946
• Melody Anderson 1955
• Mel Gibson 1956
• Shannon Sturges 1968
• James Carter 1969
• Michael Schumacher 1969
• Jason Marsden 1975
• Danica McKellar 1975