Wednesday, October 13, 2010

apocopate \uh-POK-uh-peyt\, verb:

• To omit the final sound or sounds of (a word.)

Apocopate stems from the Greek apokope, "to cut off."

food baby

• when you eat so much, that your stomach looks pregnant

Jeez! I ate so much, I look like I am having a food baby!

Trivia 

What luxury ocean liner was the first to have a heated swimming pool?

• The ill-fated Titanic

History

• White House: the cornerstone was laid for the building then known as the Executive Mansion (1792)
• universal time: the meridian of longitude of Greenwich, England, was established as the basis of calculating the world's time (1884)
• World Series: Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first baseball championship games (1903)
• Miracle of the Sun: according to reports, tens of thousands of people saw the sun cast colored lights and spin toward the earth near Fátima, Portugal (1917)
• Italy: switched sides in WWII and declared war on Nazi Germany (1943)
• Hosni Mubarak: the Egyptian vice president was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination (1981); he is Egypt's longest-serving president

Birthdays

• Rudolf Virchow: pathologist who coined the term "embolism" (1821-1902)
• Margaret Thatcher (85): former UK PM
• Marie Osmond (51): singer, TV personality; plus, musicians Art Tatum (1909-1956), Nana Mouskouri (76), Paul Simon (69), Robert Lamm (66), Sammy Hagar (63) and Ashanti (30)
• Jerry Rice (48): SF 49ers wide receiver, 1985-2000; athletes Nancy Kerrigan (41) and Ian Thorpe (28) share this birth date
• Kate Walsh (43): Addison Montgomery on Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice; also, actors Yves Montand (1921-1991), Pamela Tiffin (68), Demond Wilson (64), Reggie Theus (53), Kelly Preston and T'Keyah Crystal Keymah (both 48), Tisha Campbell-Martin (42) and Sacha Baron Cohen (39)