Monday, December 26, 2011

solatium \soh-LEY-shee-uhm\, noun:

1. Something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss or injury.

2. Law. Damages awarded to a plaintiff as compensation for personal suffering or grief arising from an injury.

Solatium is a variation on the Medieval Latin word sōlācium, which shares the root with the word solace.

pen0rz

• Penis. Also, something that 1337 dudes talk about all the damn time

omg! liek, I'm so 1337 my pen0rz is bigger than j00.

Trivia

What country has the only national flag that is not rectangular or square?

• Nepal. Its flag consists of two overlapping right triangles, or pennants, one above the other.

History

• Winston Churchill: became the first British prime minister to address a joint session of US Congress, warning against the Axis powers (1941)
• The Glass Menagerie: Tennessee Williams' play opened in Chicago (1944)
• Time magazine: Man of the Year was "the computer" (1982)
• tsunami: huge wave triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean killed more than 216,000 (2004)

Birthdays

• Laurent Clerc (1785-1869): America's first deaf teacher
• Charles Babbage (1791-1871): mathematician and inventor of the precursor to the computer
• Mao Zedong: communist leader, founder of the People's Republic of China (1893-1976)
• Steve Allen (1921-2000): writer, composer, first host of The Tonight Show
• Phil Spector: eccentric legendary music producer (71)
• Carlton Fisk (64): MLB hall-of-famer; shortstop Ozzie Smith (57) also celebrates his birthday today
• David Sedaris (55): essayist, Me Talk Pretty One Day; writers Thomas Gray (1716-1771), Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) and Henry Miller (1891-1980) shared this birth date
• Chris Daughtry (32): rock singer; other musicians born on this date include Abdul "Duke" Fakir (76), Lars Ulrich (48) and Jared Leto (40)
• Allie Sin (26): t3h pr0n

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