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Provided by the compucert provenance \PROV-uh-nuhn(t)s\, noun:
- Origin; source.
Provenance comes from French, from provenant, present participle of provenir, "to originate," ultimately from Latin provenire, from pro-, "forth" + venire, "to come."
- 27 seconds a day, 4 days a week, i.e. quite rare
Kev: Hey Boss, I work 27/4 for you.
Boss: You lazy bastard!
Trivia
What city was the first in the world to build an Olympic Village to house athletes?
- Los Angeles, for the 1932 summer Olympics. The 321-acre village, in suburban Baldwin Hills, was restricted to male athletes. Female athletes stayed at the Chapman Park Hotel in downtown LA.
- Hussein ibn Talal: teen was proclaimed king of Jordan after his father was declared mentally unfit (1952)
- The Mall of America: the most-visited mall in the world opened on the site of Metropolitan Stadium, in Bloomington, Minnesota (1992)
- Alex Haley (1921-1992): author of Roots
- Hulk Hogan (55): wrestler/actor, host of NBC's American Gladiators
- Jerry Falwell (1933-2007): Moral Majority founder
- Steve Wozniak (58): cofounder of Apple Computers
- Julia Anne Clarke (37): aka Julie Clarke, Playmate 03/91, actress, model
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