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cruciverbalist \kroo-suh-VUR-buh-list\, noun:
- A designer or aficionado of crossword puzzles.
This young word was coined in the late 1970s and entered the vernacular in 1990. Cruciverablist is derived from two Latin roots crux meaning 'cross' and verbum, meaning 'word.'
dankrupt
- to be out of marijuana
aye we need to hit the weed spot dawg we dankrupt
Trivia
What computer device was described as an “X—Y position indicator for a display system” in its inventor’s patent application?
- The mouse, for which inventor Douglas Engelbart received a patent in 1970.
Holiday
- Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
- Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere)
- Pilgrims: arrived in the New World, seeking religious freedom; they went ashore near Plymouth Rock, having traveled west after their initial settlement in Leiden, Holland, became unsustainable (1620)
- radium: radioactive element was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie (1898)
- crossword puzzle: Liverpudlian journalist Arthur Wynne published the first "word-cross" puzzle, in The New York World (1913)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: film version premiered in Hollywood (1937)
- Pan Am Flight 103: went down over Lockerbie, Scotland, after a terrorist bomb exploded aboard, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground (1988)
- Jean Baptiste Racine 1639
- Benjamin Disraeli 1804
- Henrietta Szold 1860
- Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili) 1879 (Obama's Idol)
- Walter Hagen 1892
- Pat Weaver 1908
- Andor Foldes 1913
- Heinrich Böll 1917
- Kurt Waldheim 1918
- Alicia Alonso 1921
- Paul Winchell 1922
- Phyliss Love 1925
- Ed Nelson 1928
- Freddie Hart 1933
- Phil Donahue 1935
- John Avildsen 1935
- Jane Fonda 1937
- Frank Zappa 1940
- Ray Hildebrand 1940
- Carla Thomas 1942
- Albert Lee 1943
- Gwen McCrae 1943
- Jared Martin 1943
- Michael Tilson Thomas 1944
- Gordon Kannegiesser 1945
- Josh Mostel 1946
- Carl Wilson (The Beach Boys) 1946
- Nate Wright 1947
- Elliott Maddox 1947
- Samuel L. Jackson 1948
- Claude Chartre 1949
- Betty Wright 1953
- Chris Evert 1954
- Jane Kaczmarek 1955
- Jim Rose 1956
- Lee Roy Parnell 1956
- Ray Romano 1957
- Florence Griffith Joyner 1959
- Christy Forester (The Forester Sisters) 1962
- Andy Dick 1965
- Gabrielle Glaser (Luscious Jackson) 1965
- Kiefer Sutherland 1966
- Michelle Hurd 1966
- Khrystyne Haje 1968
- Brad Warren (The Warren Brothers) 1968
- Julie Delpy 1969
- Brett Scallions (Fuel) 1971
- Wendy "Four" "Fiore" Combattante (pr0n) 1983
- Steven Yeun (TWD) 1983
- Kaitlyn Dever 1996
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