Thursday, November 17, 2011

bibliophage \BIB-lee-uh-feyj\, noun:

• An ardent reader; a bookworm.

Bibliophage derives from the Latin biblio meaning “books” and phage meaning “a thing that devours.”

hunger pack

• A six pack that is only visible when you are very hungry.

Guy 1: "What happened to my six pack? I could see it when I woke up in the morning.. did I fall out of shape in a matter of hours?"

Guy 2: "Must have been just a hunger pack... lololol"

Trivia

What was the only word beginning with the letter “X” in Noah Webster’s first dictionary, published in 1806? Clue: Think boats.

• Xebec, which was defined as “a small three-masted vessel in the Mediterranean.” Webster’s pioneering effort was titled A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

History

• Elizabeth I: the "Virgin Queen" of England began her 45-year reign, succeeding her half-sister, Queen Mary, and beginning the Elizabethan era (1558)
• US Congress: held its first Washington session in the partially completed Capitol building (1800)
• Suez Canal: 100-mile-(160 km.)-long waterway opened, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas (1869)
• Heidi bowl: NBC switched from football to Heidi, missing the last 42 seconds of a game when the Raiders came from behind, scoring two touchdowns to beat the Jets, 43-32 (1968)
• Richard Nixon: declared "I am not a crook" in Orlando, Florida, nine months before resigning over the Watergate scandal (1973)
• Velvet Revolution: demonstrations began in Czechoslovakia, leading to the fall of the communist government (1989)

Birthdays

• Louis XVIII (1755-1824): reigning king of France from 1814 to 1824
• August Möbius (1790-1868): mathematician and astronomer who developed the Möbius strip
• Lorne Michaels (67): producer, creator of Saturday Night Live; plus, film directors Lee Strasberg (1901-1982), Martin Scorsese (69) and Roland Joffe (66)
• Tom Seaver (67): MLB hall-of-famer; also, athletes Bob Mathias (1930-2006), Elvin Hayes (66) and Laura Wilkinson (34)
• Dylan Walsh (48): Dr. Sean McNamara in Nip/Tuck; also, actors Rock Hudson (1925-1985), Lauren Hutton (68), Danny DeVito (67), Stephen Root (60), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (53), William Moses (52), RuPaul (51), Sophie Marceau and Daisy Fuentes (both 44), Brandon Call (35) and Rachel McAdams (33)
• Bob Gaudio (70): singer and songwriter, The Four Seasons; plus, musicians Gordon Lightfoot (73) and Isaac Hanson (31)

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Note: I see I posted that both Rachel McAdams and Daisy Fuentes had birthdays over a month ago. It seems my source fucked up. Sorry about that.