osteopath \OS-tee-uh-path\, noun:
- a practitioner specializing in treatment chiefly by manipulation of the bones and muscles
Twitterrhea
- Too many twitters per hour.
Trivia
A photo of which Sesame Street character appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1970?
- Big Bird, on November 23, 1970. The headline that ran with the photo read “Sesame Street: TV’s Gift to Children.”
- Canada: was ceded by France to Britain when the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War (1763)
- "Chattanooga Choo Choo": earned bandleader Glenn Miller the first gold record for sales of over 1 million (1942)
- Boris Pasternak (1890-1960): Nobel Prize-winning novelist/poet, Doctor Zhivago; writers Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) were also born on this date
- Harold Macmillan (1894-1986): English PM; Russian emperor Peter III (1728-1760) shared this birth date
- Mark Spitz (59): swimmer whose world record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics was broken last year by Michael Phelps
- Laura Dern (42): actor, Jurassic Park, Recount; other actors born on this date include Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), Judith Anderson (1898-1992), Lon Chaney, Jr., (1906-1973), Robert Wagner (79), Elizabeth Banks (35) and Chloë Moretz (12)
- "He sang as if he knew me/In all my dark despair/And then he looked right through me as if I was not there." — Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel, "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
0 comments:
Post a Comment