mewl \myool\, verb:
- To cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.
Mewl is an imitative word that mimics the sound of a whimper.
Going Screensaver
- When you notice a coworker spacing out, or dozing off in a meeting.
“Check it out, look at Joe. He’s going screensaver.”
Holiday
- Father's Day: Father's Day is a secular celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving to fathers and family-oriented activities. The gifts given often have slogans such as "World's Best Dad".
History
- House Divided speech: Abraham Lincoln, as a senatorial candidate, warned that the Union must become either all-slave or all-free (1858)
- Bloomsday: James Joyce's Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through this one day of his life (1904)
- New Deal: FDR opened his recovery program, signing bank, rail and industry bills and initiating farm aid that ended up prolonging the Great Depression (1933)
- Valentina Tereshkova: Soviet cosmonaut became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6 (1963)
Birthdays
- Helen Traubel 1899
- Jack Albertson 1910
- Hank Lusetti 1916
- Katherine Graham 1917
- John Howard Griffin 1920
- Erich Segal 1937
- Joyce Carol Oates 1938 - Author
- Corin Redgrave 1939
- Billy 'Crash' Craddock 1939 - Country singer
- Lamont Dozier 1941 - Songwriter
- Eddie Levert 1942 - Musician (The O'Jays)
- Joan Van Ark 1943 - Actress ("Knot's Landing")
- Ian Matthews 1945 - Musician (Fairport Convention)
- Derek Sanderson 1946
- James Smith 1950 - Musician (The Stylistics)
- Roberto Duran 1951 - Boxer
- Gino Vannelli 1952 - Singer
- Jenny Smimizu 1967
- Phil Mickelson 1970 - Golf player
- Tupac Shakur 1971 - Rapper
- Eddie Cibrian 1973
- Frederick Koehler 1975
- China Shavers 1977
- Kerry Wood 1977 - Baseball player
- Missy Peregrym 1982 - Actress
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