Wednesday, November 16, 2011

opuscule \oh-PUHS-kyool\, noun:

1. A small or minor work.
2. A literary or musical work of small size.

Opuscule is from the Latin roots opus meaning “word” and cule which is a suffix that implies a diminutive version, as in molecule and fascicle.Void the Warranty

• To perform an activity in an extreme fashion.

"you're hitting the bars tonight? Let's void the warranty!"

"I voided her warranty all night long"

Trivia

How did the town of Snowflake, Arizona, end up with its wintry name?

• Precipitation had nothing to do with it. The town was named for its two founders, Mormon pioneers Erastus Snow and William Flake, in 1878.

History

• Jadwiga: blonde blue-eyed beauty became "king" of Poland (1384)
• Battle of Cajamarca: conquistador Francisco Pizarro massacred thousands of Incas in a surprise attack in Peru, and captured the emperor Atahualpa (1532)
• US-USSR relations: FDR extended formal diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union (1933)
• Sound of Music: the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway (1959)

Birthdays

• Tiberius (42 BCE–37 CE): second Roman emperor
• José Saramago (1922-2010): 1998's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; authors George Kaufman (1889-1961), Chinua Achebe (81) and Elizabeth Drew (76) share this birth date
• Marg Helgenberger (53): Catherine Willows on C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; also, actors Clu Gulager (83), Harry Lennix (47), Lisa Bonet (44), Martha Plimpton (41), Maggie Gyllenhaal (34), Kimberly J. Brown (27) and Noah Gray-Cabey (16)
• Diana Krall (47): Grammy-winning jazz pianist and singer; other musicians born on this date include Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831), W.C. Handy (1873-1958), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Hubert Sumlin (80) and W. C. Clark (72)
• Osi Umenyiora (30): British-born defensive end for the NY Giants; plus figure skater Oksana Baiul (34)
• Suzi Simpson (43): Athens Greece, playmate (Jan, 1992)

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