Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

effervescent \ef-er-VES-uhnt\, adjective:
1. High-spirited; vivacious; lively.
2. Effervescing; bubbling.
Effervescent originated as a French verb in the 1650s meaning, 'the action of boiling up' (as in water), though it did not assume its figurative meaning relating to personality until 1748. 
 
floor sample
  • Food that has fallen to the floor that you pick up and eat anyway
Chase was making a ham sandwich in the kitchen one sunny afternoon. Clumsily, he dropped a slice of ham on the floor, but picked it up remembering the 3-second rule, exclaiming "floor sample!". His mother shuddered with disgust.

History
  • Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasant uprising began due to heavy taxation; 37,000 were beheaded (1637)
  • Kitty Hawk: the Wright brothers successfully conducted the first controlled, sustained flight of a motor-powered airplane; they had been building flying devices for less than five years (1903)
  • Japanese American internment: the US army announced that it would no longer hold Japanese Americans in relocation centers, allowing "evacuees" to return home (1944)
  • Harold Holt: the Australian prime minister went missing and was presumed drowned while swimming off the coast of Portsea, Victoria (1967)
  • Project Blue Book: US Air Force investigation into UFOs was terminated; the conclusion was that sightings were due to mass hysteria, hoaxes, mistakes and the like (1969)
  • The Simpsons: the longest-running prime-time animated series premiered on Fox (1989)
  • NAFTA: trade agreement was signed by Canada, the US and Mexico (1992) 
Birthdays
  • Humphry Davy 1778
  • Joseph Henry 1797
  • John Greenleaf Whittier 1807
  • Arthur Fiedler 1896
  • Erskine Caldwell 1903
  • Willard Libby 1908
  • Sy Oliver 1910
  • Joan Woodbury 1915
  • Richard Long 1927
  • Julia Meade (Kunza) 1928
  • William Safire 1929
  • Bob Guccione 1930
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl 1930
  • George Lindsey 1935
  • Tommy Steele (Rock with the Caveman) 1936
  • Nat Stuckey 1937
  • Art Neville (The Neville Brothers) 1937
  • Eddie Kendricks (The Temptations) 1939
  • Paul Butterfield (Paul Butterfield Blues Band) 1942
  • Dave Dee (Harmon) 1943
  • Bernard Hill 1944
  • Ernie Hudson 1945
  • Christopher Cazenove 1945
  • Eugene Levy 1946
  • Wes Studi 1947
  • Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company) 1949
  • Wanda Huntchinson (The Emotions) 1951
  • Bill Pullman 1953
  • Sharon White 1953
  • Barry Livingston 1953
  • Mike Mills (R.E.M.) 1958
  • Sarah Dallin (Bananarama) 1961
  • Tim Chewning (Ricochet) 1962
  • Duane Propes 1966
    Laurie Holden 1969 (TWD, The X-Files)
  • Sean Patrick Thomas 1970
  • DJ Homicide (Sugar Ray) 1970
  • Sarah Paulson 1974
  • Marissa Ribisi 1974
  • Giovanni Ribisi 1974
  • Bree Sharp 1975
  • Milla Jovovich 1975
  • Vanessa Zima 1986

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Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files
 


 
 
 

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