Thursday, July 25, 2024

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Bildungsroman \BIL-doongz-roh-mahn\, noun:
  • A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
Bildungsroman stems from the German word of the same spelling. The word bildung means "formation," and the word roman means "book." 

Dictionary Inception
  • When you look up the meaning of a word and the definition uses a version of the same word.
You: "I wonder how one would define leadership?" 
Dictionary: "Leadership: (n) (lee-der-ship) the ability to lead." 
You: "Well, that was insightful. Dictionary Inception at it again."

Trivia
Which U.S. interstate highway is the longest?
  • I-90, which stretches 3,099 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Seattle, Washington.


History
  • Caracas: Captain Diego de Losada founded Venezuela's capital, then known as Santiago de Leon de Caracas (1567)
  • Henry IV of France: embraced Roman Catholicism for the second time; he had abandoned Protestantism in order to win Paris (1593)
  • General of the Army: Ulysses S. Grant became the first officer to hold the US army's highest rank (1866)
  • Bikini Atoll: America tested the first underwater atomic bomb (1946)
  • Rock band YES released their debut album (1969) 
    test-tube baby: Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England (1978)
  • Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace: at the White House, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein agreed to end their official state of war (1994)
Birthdays
  • Thomas Eakins 1844
  • Morris Raphel Cohen 1880
  • Walter Brennan 1894
  • Eric Hoffer 1902
  • Jack Gilford 1907
  • Estelle Getty 1924
  • Stanley Dancer 1927
  • Don Ellis 1934
  • Barbara Harris 1935
  • John Pennel 1940
  • Manuel Charlton (Nazareth) 1941
  • Janet Margolin 1943
  • Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) 1943
  • Donna Theodore 1945
  • Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) 1951
  • Walter Payton (NFL) 1954
  • Iman 1955
  • Ray Billingsley 1957
  • Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) 1958
  • Marty Brown 1965
  • Illeana Douglas 1965
  • Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")
  • Brad Renfro 1982

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