Wednesday, September 15, 2010

arch \AHRCH\, adjective:

1. Cunning; crafty; sly.

2. Obsolete. A person who is preeminent; a chief.

noun:

1. A curved masonry construction for spanning an opening.

Arch originally meant "chief," as in an archangel, but took on the sense of "mischevious" in the 1660s.

Autotan

• 
  
  The method of artificially enhancing one's tan in pictures after them being taken using some photo editing software. The most common way of doing this is increasing the saturation of the photo, then uploading to social networking sites. Derived from Auto-tune, the software used to enhance vocals in many modern songs.

Nah she isn't, she just autotanned the photo, she's still pale really

Trivia

What actor has won three Oscars—all of them for films for which his leading lady won Best Actress honors?

• 
  
  Jack Nicholson. He won Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1976, when Louise Fletcher won Best Actress; he won Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment in 1984, when Shirley MacLaine won Best Actress; and he won Best Actor for As Good As It Gets in 1998, when Helen Hunt won Best Actress.

History

• 
  
  Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declared their independence of Spain (1821)
• 
  
  Galápagos Islands: were reached by naturalist Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle (1835)
• 
  
  Nuremberg Laws: deprived Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official emblem of Nazi Germany (1935)
• 
  
  civil rights: a bomb killed four black girls when it exploded during Sunday services in a Birmingham, Alabama, church, sparking race riots (1963)
• 
  
  USA Today: Gannett's national newspaper hit the stands; it's America's top-selling daily newspaper in print (1982)
• 
  
  Lehman Brothers: the investment bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — the largest bankruptcy in US history (2008)

Birthdays

• 
  
  Hans-Gert Pöttering (65): former president of the European Parliament
• 
  
  Bruno Walter (1876-1962): conductor, especially of Mahler's works; and, soprano Jessye Norman (65)
• 
  
  Agatha Christie (1890-1976): the "Queen of Crime" who created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple; plus, writers François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) and Claude McKay (1889-1948)
• 
  
  Ron Shelton (65): screenwriter/director, Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump; plus, directors Jean Renoir (1894-1979) and Oliver Stone (64)
• 
  
  Dave Annable (31): Justin Walker in Brothers and Sisters; also, actors Jackie Cooper (88), Forrest Compton (85), Henry Darrow (77), Tommy Lee Jones (64), Josh Charles (39) and Amy Davidson (31)
• 
  
  Dan Marino (49): NFL hall-of-famer; other athletes born on this date include Gaylord Perry (72), Merlin Olsen (70) and Mike Dunleavy (30)
• 
  
  Prince Harry (26): younger son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana
• 
  
  Heidi Montag (24): reality show personality, The Hills