Saturday, January 07, 2017

Saturday, January 7, 2017

katzenjammer \KAT-suhn-jam-er\, noun:
1. The discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
2. Uneasiness; anguish; distress.
3. Uproar; clamor.
Katzenjammer stems from American English, a combination of the German Katze, "cat," and jammer, "distress." The word was popularized by the early comic "The Katzenjammer Kids."
 
G6
  • G6 / G650. Slang for the Gulfstream G650, a twin-engine jet airplane manufactured by Gulfstream Aerospace. The estimated pricetag exceeds $58 million USD, and will be assembled in Gulfstream's new manufacturing facility in Savannah, Georgia. Gulfstream begins taking orders for the aircraft in April, 2010, with delivery beginning in 2012.
Example usage:
"Iâm feelin' so fly like a G6".

History
  • Galilean moons: Jupiter's moons were first observed by Galileo; Simon Marius, however, named them — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, after the lovers of Zeus (1610)
  • Fannie Farmer: published her first cookbook (1896)
  • Marian Anderson: the contralto became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House (1955)
  • Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot's regime was toppled when Vietnam took Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh (1979)
  • Bill Clinton: impeachment trial began (1999)
Birthdays
  • Joseph Bonaparte (Naples) 1768
  • Millard S. Fillmore (U.S.) 1800
  • Charles Laemmle 1867
  • Adolph Zukor 1873
  • Charles Péguy 1873
  • Butterfly McQueen 1911
  • Charles Addams 1912
  • Vincent Gardenia 1922
  • Jean-Pierre Rampal 1922
  • Gerald Durrell 1925
  • William Blatty 1928
  • Terry Moore (Helen Koford) 1929
  • Jack Greene 1930
  • Douglas Kiker 1930
  • Eldee Young 1936
  • Lou Graham (golfer) 1938
  • Danny Williams 1942
  • Paul Revere (Paul Revere and The Raiders) 1942
  • Leona Williams 1943
  • Jan Wenner 1946
  • Kenny Loggins 1948
  • Marshall Chapman 1949
  • Erin Gray 1952 
  • Morris Titanic (NHL) 1953
  • Katie Couric 1957
  • David Lee Murphy 1958
  • Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's) 1958
  • David Marciano 1960
  • Craig Shipley 1963
  • Nicholas Cage 1964
  • Guy Hebert (NHL) 1967
  • Doug E. Doug 1970
  • Jeremy Renner 1971
  • John Rich 1974
  • Dustin Diamond 1977
    Lauren Cohan 1982 (The Walking Dead)
    Natalie Gulbis 1983 (Pro-Golfer / Model)
  • Rhianna (Robin Hannah Louise Kenny) 1983 - Singer 
  • Lindsy Fonseca 1987

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