Thursday, September 30, 2010

lucifugous \loo-see-FOO-guhs\, adjective:

• Avoiding light.

Lucifugous combines two Latin roots, luci-, "light," and fugere, "to flee."

tgiaf

• acronym for "Thank God Its Almost Friday", word is only usually used on thursday.

hey Craig guess what?

What?

TGIAF!!!

Trivia

What is the name of the main street in Eleanor, West Virginia?

• Roosevelt Boulevard. The town was named for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who helped get New Deal government financing to build homes in the area during the Depression.

History

• US Senate: Pennsylvanians William Maclay and Robert Morris became the first two members elected to the federal body (1788)
• The Magic Flute: Mozart's opera opened in Vienna (1791)
• ether: was used as an anasthetic for the first time by Boston dentist William Morton (1846)
• Little Women: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up during the US Civil War was published (1868)
• Munich Agreement: France, Italy, Germany and Britain signed a pact allowing Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland; it became synonymous with appeasement (1938)
• Nuremberg Trials: 22 Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes (1946)
• James Dean: Rebel Without a Cause star died in a car crash at age 24 (1955)
• Republic of Botswana: African nation declared its independence from Britain (1966)

Birthdays

• Hans Geiger (1882-1945): physicist who invented the Geiger counter; also, physicists Jean Perrin (1870-1942) and Nevill Mott (1905-1996)
• Truman Capote (1924-1984): author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood
• Elie Weisel (82): Nobel laureate who writes and lectures about his experiences during the Holocaust
• Johnny Mathis (75): pop crooner; also, musicians David Oistrakh (1908-1974), Buddy Rich (1917-1987), Marilyn McCoo (67), John Lombardo (58), Deborah Allen (57), Marty Stuart (52), Marley Marl (48), and Robby Takac and Trey Anastasio (both 46)
• Marion Cotillard (35): Oscar-winning star of La Vie En Rose; also, actors Angie Dickinson (79), Len Cariou (71), John Finn (58), Fran Drescher (53), Eric Stoltz (49), Andrea Roth (43), Monica Bellucci (42?), Jenna Elfman (39) and Lacey Chabert & Kieran Culkin (both 28)
• Martina Hingis (30): tennis star; plus, athletes Robin Roberts (1926-2010), José Lima (38), Carlos Guillen (35) and Dominique Moceanu (29)