mucro \MYOO-kroh\, noun:
- A short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
blabber infection
- The condition that a person who goes "blah blah blah" suffers from.
- Acute verbosity, manifested in meaningless blabber.
History
- Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love was founded (1682)
- Federalist Papers: the first of a series of essays was published, calling for the ratification of the US Constitution; the essays were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (1787)
- IRT: New York City's first rapid transit subway opened (1904)
- nylon: chemical company DuPont announced the name of its new synthetic fiber (1938)
- Wall Street crash: trading was halted for a cooling-off period after the Dow fell more than 500 points (1997)
- James Cook 1728
- Nicola Paganini 1782
- Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.) 1858
- Emily Post 1872
- Leif Erickson 1911
- Dylan Thomas 1914
- Teresa Wright 1918
- Nanette Fabray 1920
- Ralph Kiner (MLB) 1922
- Roy Lichtenstein 1923
- Ruby Dee 1924
- Floyd Cramer 1933
- John Cleese 1939
- Lara Parker 1942
- Lee (Melvin) Greenwood 1942
- Carrie Snodgress 1946
- Terry Anderson 1947
- Jack Daniels (Highway 101) 1949
- Garry Tallent (E Street Band) 1949
- Fran Lebowitz 1950
- Jayne Kennedy-Overton 1951
- Roberto Benigni 1952
- Peter Firth 1953
- Robert Picardo 1953
- Simon LeBon (Duran Duran) 1958
- Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) 1967
- Sean Holland 1968
- Sheeri Rappaport 1977
- Kelly Osbourne 1984
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