Sunday, December 18, 2016

replevy \ri-PLEV-ee\, verb:

• To recover goods or chattels wrongfully taken or detained.

Replevy originates in the Old French replevir, "to bail out."

 

courier newed

• If your professor doesn't have a font requirement and you can't think of anything else to write, change your font to courier new to add multiple pages to your papers.

Yo man, I said fuck it and courier newed that research paper.

History

• Amendment XIII: anti-slavery amendment to the US Constitution was declared ratified by Secretary of State William Seward, abolishing the practice (1865)
• capital punishment in the United Kingdom: was abolished by both houses of Parliament (1969)
• Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line: 1.5 trillion yen, 15-kilometer bridge-tunnel opened across Tokyo Bay after 31 years of construction (1997)

Birthdays

• Joseph Grimaldi 1778
• Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 1870
• Paul Klee 1879
• Ty Cobb 1886 - Baseball player
• Edwin Howard Armstrong 1890
• George Stevens 1904
• Christopher Fry 1907
• Abe Burrows 1910
• Willy Brandt 1913
• Betty Grable 1916
• Lynn Bari 1917
• Ossie Davis 1917 - Actor
• Anita O’Day (Colton) 1919
• Roger Smith 1925 - Actor
• Lonnie Brooks 1933 - Blues musician
• Chas (Bryan) Chandler (Animals) 1938 - Musician and manager
• Sam Andrew 1941 - Musician (Big Brother and the Holding Company)
• Alan Rudolph 1943 - Writer and director
• Keith Richards1943 - Musician (Rolling Stones) and possible zombie
• Steven Spielberg 1947 Movie producer-director
• Leonard Maltin 1950 - Movie reviewer
• Gillian Armstrong 1950 - Movie director
• Martha Johnson (Martha and the Muffins) 1950
• Elliot Easton 1953 - Musician (The Cars)
• Ray Liotta 1955 - Actor
• Brad Pitt 1963 Actor
• Robson Green 1964
• Tracy Byrd 1966 - Singer
• DMX 1970 - Rapper (My Niggaz)
• Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 1971 - Tennis player
  Trish Stratus 1975
• Katie Holmes 1978 - Actress ("Dawson's Creek")
• Christina María Aguilera 1980 - Singer