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Monday, July 27, 2026
Monday, July 27, 2026
hemidemisemiquaver \ hem-ee-dem-ee-SEM-ee-kwey-ver \ , noun;
- Music. Chiefly British . a sixty-fourth note.
Origin: Hemidemisemiquaver entered English in the mid-1800s, as an extension of demisemiquave , a thirty-second note. A quaver is chiefly British word for an eighth note.
meter high club
- In the spirit of the mile high club, but for those who couldn't afford the plane tickets so are just taking the train.
Me and my girlfriend thought we would join the ranks of the prestigious mile high club, but had to take the train home instead. We went for the meter high club instead, but forgot that they can throw you off a train a lot easier than a plane.
History
- transatlantic telegraph cable: was completed, linking the US and Europe; the cord shortened communication time from days to minutes (1866)
insulin: physiologists isolated the hormone used to manage diabetes (1921)- Bugs Bunny: debuted in The Wild Hare (1940)
- Billboard: the magazine published its first singles record chart (1940)
- Korean War: the conflict ended with no clear winner, splitting the country into North and South (1953)
- Coronation Street: British soap characters Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton tied the knot; their wedding got higher telly ratings than that of Prince Charles and Lady Di (1981)
- Charlotte Corday 1768
- George Foster Peabody 1852
- Keenan Wynn 1916
- Homer (Henry D. Haynes) 1918
- Charles P. Ginsburg 1920
- Norman Lear 1922
- Bob Morse (Hi-Lo's) 1927
- Harvey Fuqua (The Moonglows) 1929
- Jerry Van Dyke 1931
- Nick Reynolds (The Kingston Trio) 1933
- Don Galloway 1937
- Irv Cross 1939
- James Victor 1939
- Dennis Ralston 1942
- John Pleshette 1942
- Bobbie Gentry 1944
- Al Ramsey (Gary Lewis & The Playboys) 1946
- Betty Thomas 1948
- Peggy Fleming 1948
- Maury Chaykin 1949
- Maureen McGovern 1949
- Michael Vaughn (Paperlace) 1950
- Janet Eilber 1951
- Roxanne Hart 1952
Duncan Cameron (Sawyer Brown) 1956- Karl Mueller (Soul Asylum) 1963
- Rex Brown (Pantera) 1964
- Juliana Hatfield 1967
- Stacy Dean Campbell 1967
- Julian McMahon 1968
- Maya Rudolph 1972
- Peter Yorn 1974
- Alex Rodriguez (MLB) 1975
- John Rhys Meyers 1977
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Look forward to K8 the Gr8 [2026]
Get outta here kid
You're bothering me.
***wink***
Kate Beckinsale
53 Today
I think I need a drink...
Sunday, July 26, 2026
prevaricator \ pri-VAR-i-key-ter \ , noun;
History
- a person who speaks falsely; liar.
- a person who speaks so as to avoid the precise truth; quibbler; equivocator.
sniff test
- To test if an item of already worn clothing is suitable to wear out. common amongst students who cant be bothered to do their washing.
Friend1: Hey man cant you just wear those boxers?
Friend2:(sniff test) yeah i can get a couple more uses out of those
History
- Lionel Nathan Rothschild: became the first Jew to sit in the British Parliament — 11 years after he was elected; the House of Commons had to allow a special oath (1858)
- Unua Libro: the "First Book" of Esperanto was published, by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof (1887)
- National Security Act: was signed by US President Harry S Truman; it created the Department of Defense, National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency, and Joint Chiefs of Staff (1947)
- Suez Canal: was nationalized by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, leading to an international crisis (1956)
- Jimmy Hoffa: Teamsters union head was convicted of fraud and conspiracy (1964)
Birthdays
- George Catlin 1796
- George Bernard Shaw 1856
- Carl Jung 1875
- Aldous Huxley 1894
- Gracie Allen 1906
- Vivian Vance 1912
- Erskine Hawkins 1914
- Marjorie Lord 1921
Blake Edwards 1922- Jason Robards, Jr. 1922
- Hoyt Wilhelm 1923
- Louie Bellson (Duke Ellington Band) 1924
- James Best 1926
- Stanley Kubrick 1928
- Bobby Lilly 1939
- Bobby Rousseau 1940
- Bobby Hebb 1941
- Dobie Gray 1943
- Peter Hyams 1943
- Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) 1943
- Keil Martin 1944
- Mickei King 1944
- Helen Mirren 1946
- Roger Taylor (Queen) 1949
- Susan George 1950
- Duncan Mackey 1950
- Dorothy Hamill 1956
- Nana Visitor 1957 - Star Trek
- Kevin Spacey 1959
- Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen) 1961
- Sandra Bullock 1964
- Jeremy Piven 1965
- Jennifer Ashe 1966
- Kate Beckinsale 1973
- Derek Jeter 1974
- Taylor Momsen 1993
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Saturday, July 25, 2026
strident \ STRAHYD-nt \ , adjective;
- making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges .
- having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings .
- Linguistics . (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
Origin: Strident entered English in the mid-1600s from the Latin strīdēre meaning "to make a harsh noise."
Fwerking
- The act of fapping and twerking simultaneously. Some see as a dance move, others a sign of the devil.
"Dude check out this fwerking!
"THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU"
History
- Caracas: Captain Diego de Losada founded Venezuela's capital, then known as Santiago de Leon de Caracas (1567)
- Henry IV of France: embraced Roman Catholicism for the second time; he had abandoned Protestantism in order to win Paris (1593)
- General of the Army: Ulysses S. Grant became the first officer to hold the US army's highest rank (1866)
- Bikini Atoll: America tested the first underwater atomic bomb (1946)
- Rock band YES released their debut album (1969)
test-tube baby: Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England (1978) - Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace: at the White House, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein agreed to end their official state of war (1994)
- Thomas Eakins 1844
- Morris Raphel Cohen 1880
- Walter Brennan 1894
- Eric Hoffer 1902
- Jack Gilford 1907
- Estelle Getty 1924
- Stanley Dancer 1927
- Don Ellis 1934
- Barbara Harris 1935
- John Pennel 1940
- Manuel Charlton (Nazareth) 1941
- Janet Margolin 1943
- Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) 1943
- Donna Theodore 1945
- Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) 1951
Walter Payton (NFL) 1954
- Iman 1955
- Ray Billingsley 1957
- Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) 1958
- Marty Brown 1965
- Illeana Douglas 1965
- Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")
- Brad Renfro 1982
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