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Provided by the compucert - To praise highly; to glorify; to exalt.
Extol derives from Latin extollere, "to lift up, praise," from ex-, "up from" + tollere, "to lift up, elevate."
- 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.
Trivia
What famous American aviator piloted the first nonstop transcontinental supersonic flight?
- John Glenn, in 1957, five years before he became the first American astronaut to orbit the earth. Glenn made the cross-country flight, averaging 760 mph, in a record three hours and 23 minutes.
telegraph: transatlantic cable linked US and Europe; the cord shortened communication time from days to minutes (1866) - Korean War: UN, N. Korea, China signed armistice (1953); veterans memorial was dedicated in Washington by presidents Clinton and Kim Young-sam (1995)
- Geoffrey De Havilland (1882-1965): aviation pioneer who designed and built military planes
- Leo Durocher (1905-1991): baseball infielder and manager
- Julian McMahon (40): demon in love on Charmed, materialistic human on Nip/Tuck; other actors born on this date include Jerry Van Dyke (77), John Pleshette (66), Betty Thomas (60), Maury Chaykin (59), Roxanne Hart (56), Maya Rudolph (36) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (31)
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