Thursday, August 1, 2024

precipitancy \pri-SIP-i-tuhn-see\, noun:

1. Headlong or rash haste.

2. The quality or state of being precipitant.

3. Precipitancies, hasty or rash acts.

Precipitancy comes from the Latin word praecipitāre meaning "to cast down headlong."

 

Kinderstruck

• The stricking feeling one gets of childhood nostalgia. Remembering something from childhood with longing.

I opened the book ten years later kinderstruck by the memories of road trips with my parents.

She stood kinderstruck by the sight of her old elementary school, much less extravagent than she remembered.

History

• Slavery Abolition Act 1833: abolished slavery in Britain and Ireland
• WWI: erupted as Germany declared war on Russia (1914)
• Fulbright: scholarship program was signed into US law (1946)
• MTV: cable music station was launched with, aptly, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)

Birthdays

• Francis Scott Key 1779
• Herman Melville 1819
• Arthur Hill 1922
• Lionel Bart 1930
• Geoffrey Holder 1930
• Tom Wilson 1931
• Ramblin' Jack Elliot 1931
• Dom DeLuise 1933
• Yves Saint Laurent 1936
• Giancarlo Giannini 1942
• Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) 1942
• Boz Burrell (Bad Company) 1946
  
• Tim Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1951
• Robert Cray 1953
• Michael Penn 1958
• Robert Buck (10,000 Maniacs) 1958
• Joe Elliot (Def Leppard) 1959
• Suzi Gardner (L7) 1960
• Chuck D (Public Enemy) 1960
• Coolio 1963
• Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) 1964
• George Ducas 1966
• Charlie Kelley (Buffalo Club) 1968
• Tempestt Bledsoe 1973
• Taylor Fry 1981
• Ashley Angel (O-Town) 1981