Tuesday, November 9, 2010

moue \MOO\, noun:

A pouting grimace.

Moue is a loan word from the French for "mouth and lips."

bomb dot com

another way to express when something is awesome/ cool/ amazing.

damn that burrito was bomb dot com

 

Trivia

What name did movie producer George Lucas originally intend to give the archaeologist-adventurer we know as Indiana Jones?

Indiana Smith. When director Steven Spielberg objected, Smith was changed to Jones.

History

• Kristallnacht: Jews were beaten and killed by Nazis, and their homes and shops destroyed, during "the night of the broken glass" (1938)
• Rolling Stone: music and pop culture magazine published its first issue (1967)
• Berlin Wall: East Germany allowed free travel across its border to West Germany for the first time in 28 years (1989)

Birthdays

• Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883): novelist, dramatist and short-story writer; other authors born on this date include Anne Sexton (1928-1974) and Imre Kertész (81)
• Whitey Herzog (79): baseball manager; MLB pitcher Bob Gibson (75) shares this birth date
• Mary Travers (1936-2009): the distaff member of Peter, Paul and Mary; other singers born on this date include Susan Tedeschi (40), Nick Lachey (37) and Sisqo (32)
• Carl Sagan (1934-1996): scientist who brought planetary astronomy to the masses; also, mathematician/astronomer Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
• Eric Dane (38): Grey's Anatomy's Dr. McSteamy; also, actors Robert David Hall (63), Lou Ferrigno (59) and Nikki Blonsky (22)