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Provided by the compucert wanton \WON-tn\, adjective; The plural is faunas or faunae.:
- reckless, heartless, or malicious; without reason or excuse
- not moral; lewd, lascivious
c 1300, wan-towen, from Middle English privative prefix wan- "wanting, lacking" (from Old English wan "wanting") + togen/teon "to train, discipline;" literally "to pull, draw," from Proto Germanic *teuhan. The basic notion perhaps is "ill-bred, poorly brought up."
Land it in the Hudson- An expression used to encourage yourself or someone else when it appears an endeavor is headed for a disastrous outcome (due mostly to external conditions). Based on when Sully averted tragedy by successfully landing US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. See also, "Land it like Sully."
Trivia
In baseball scorekeeping, why is the letter K used to indicate a strikeout? Why not an S?
- The S was needed to represent a sacrifice under the scorekeeping system devised in the mid-1800s by sportswriter Henry Chadwick. So he used the K, the last and most prominent letter in the word struck, as the symbol for a strikeout.
- National Geographic Society: was founded to advance knowledge of world geography (1888)
- Outer Space Treaty: began collecting signatories; it bans WMDs in space and says the moon is communal property (1967)
- Apollo I: during a preflight test, a cockpit fire trapped and killed NASA astronauts Roger Chaffee, Virgil (Gus) Grissom and Ed White; they were to have made the first manned voyage to the moon (1967)
Today's Birthdays: - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): composer, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute; other composers born on this date include Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) and Jerome Kern (1885-1945)
- James Cromwell (69): actor, The Queen, W; also, actors Donna Reed (1921-1986), John Witherspoon (67), Mimi Rogers (53), Bridget Fonda (45), Alan Cumming (44) and Josh Randall (37)
Nick Mason (65): drummer with Pink Floyd; musicians Tracy Lawrence and Tricky (both 41) also celebrate their birthday today - Mikhail Baryshnikov (61): ballet dancer and choreographer
- John G. Roberts, Jr. (54): 17th US Chief Justice; jurist Learned Hand (1872-1961) shared this birth date
- Dante (10): diamond back terrapin (turtle), nuclear physicist, noble prize winner, 3 time oscar winner, 6 pulitzer prizes
Quote:
- "'There is no use trying,' said Alice; 'one can't believe impossible things.' 'I dare say you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' — Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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