Friday, July 19, 2024

pandect \PAN-dekt\ noun

1. a complete code of the laws of a country or system of law
2. a treatise covering an entire subject

The original pandect was the "Pandectae," a massive fifty-volume digest of Roman civil law that was created under the emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Latin word "pandectae" is the plural of "pandectes," which means "encyclopedic work" or "book that contains everything." "Pandectes" in turn derives from the Greek "pandekt‡s" ("all-receiving"), from "pan-" ("all") and "dechesthai" ("to receive"). When the word "pandect" first cropped up in English in the mid-16th century, it referred to the complete code of laws of a particular country or system. Its "comprehensive treatise" sense developed later that century.

hard boiled egg 

• A white person that thinks or acts Asian. The opposite of a twinkie. They are white on the outside and yellow inside.

Tom is such a hard boiled egg he smells like fish sauce, eats goat and only listens to Asian music.
Joe loves China so much lives in Chinatown, what a hard boiled egg. 

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")