incondite \in-KON-dit\, adjective:
1. Ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.Incondite stems from the Latin root condere meaning "to put in, restore." The prefix in- also corresponds to the prefix un-, as in the word indefensible.
2. Crude; rough; unmannerly.
coffeedence
- The sudden burst of confidence, focus, or creativity one experiences during or immediately following the consumption of coffee/caffeine.
"No, but he had a double shot of espresso this morning -- must be coffeedence."
History
- Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
- Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
- Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
- Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
- Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the to the Soviet Union (1987)
- Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
- US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)
Birthdays
- Nathaniel Greene 1742
- Mata Hari 1876
- Billie Burke 1884
- Rudolf Bunche 1904
- Warren Covington 1921
- Felice Bryant 1925
- Stan Freberg 1926
- "The Amazing" James Randi 1928
- Magic Slim 1937
- Ron Holden 1939
- Verna Bloom 1939
- B.J. Thomas 1942
- Garrison Keillor 1942
- Lana Cantrell 1943
- John Glover 1944
- David Rasche 1944
- Rodney Crowell 1950
- Andy Fraser (Free) 1952
- Caroline Aaron 1952
- Wayne Knight 1955
- Alberto Salazar 1958
- Bruce Dickinson 1958 (Iron Maiden)
- David Duchovny 1960 (X-Files)
- DeLane Matthews 1961
- Marcus Roberts 1963
- Harold Perrineau 1963 - Actor ("Lost")
- Raul Malo (The Mavericks) 1965
- Charlotte Lewis 1967
- Sydney Penny 1971
- Charlize Theron 1975 (Aeon Flux)
- Sydney Crosby 1987
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