Saturday, December 03, 2016

Saturday, December 3, 2016

divagate \DAHY-vuh-geyt\, verb:
1. To wander; stray.
2. To digress in speech.
The Latin roots of divagate are di-, "two," and vagare, "to wander."
 
Memory Hole
  • The alteration or outright disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a web site or other archive. Its origin comes from George Orwell's "1984", in which the memory hole was a small incinerator chute used for censoring, (through destroying), things Big Brother deemed necessary to censor.
Person One: "Did you hear about that scandal involving the President?"
Person Two: "Yeah! Looks like someone didn't have time to visit the memory hole." 
Dude One: "Yo bro, I like that picture on Facebook of you wearing the "I Love Barry Manilow" shirt!"
Dude Two: "Yeah, that's definitely going in the memory hole."

History
  • coed: Oberlin College became the first institution of higher learning in the US to serve both male and female students (1833)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee William's Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened on Broadway (1947)
  • heart transplant: the procedure was first performed by Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky in Cape Town; the patient lived 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia, but his new heart didn't fail (1967)
  • 20th Century Limited: luxury NYC–Chicago train, on which passengers were routinely given flowers and perfume, finished its final run (1967)
  • Bhopal disaster: poison gas emission from Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people in arguably the worst industrial disaster ever (1984)
Birthdays
  • George McClellan 1826
  • Joseph Conrad 1857
  • Carlos Montoya 1903
  • Ferlin Husky 1925
  • Andy Williams 1927
  • Jean-Luc Godard 1930
  • Jaye P. Morgan 1931
  • imagebam.comBobby Allison 1937
  • John Cale 1940 - Musician (Velvet Underground)
  • Mary Alice 1941
  • Peter C. Schulz 1942
  • Ozzy Osbourne 1948 
  • Heather Menzies 1949
  • Mickey Thomas 1949 - Musician (Jefferson Starship)
  • Don Barnes 1952 - Musician (.38 Special) 
  • Rick Mears 1953
  • Steve Forbert 1954
  • Paul Gregg 1954 - Musician (Restless Heart)
  • Daryl Hannah 1960 - Actress
  • Julianne Moore 1960
  • Katarina Witt 1965
  • Montell Jordan 1968
  • Brendan Fraser 1968 - Actor ("George of the Jungle")
  • Royale Watkins 1969
  • Bruno Campos 1973
  • Holly Marie Combs 1973
  • Lauren Roman 1975
  • Anna Chlumsky 1980
  • Brian Bonsall 1981
  • Amanda Seyfried 1985
  • Michael Angaran 1987

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