Thursday, January 12, 2017

Thursday, January 12, 2017

mansuetude \MAN-swi-tood\, noun:
  • Mildness; gentleness.
Mansuetude derives from the Latin mansuescere, literally "to tame by the hand."
 
straight like
  • when someone goes straight down your Facebook page and likes everything. including wallposts, comments, statuses, etc. usually it's a close friend of yours, or someone who's bored to death.
Al: I straight liked Amanda's Facebook page like 3 times she's pissed.
Sonia: That's hilarious I always do that to one of my co-workers when I'm bored.
 
 History
  • Hattie Caraway: became the first woman elected to the US Senate, exactly 17 years after the House rejected suffrage for women; she made no speeches in the 14 years she served (1932)
  • James Bedford: Californian professor of psychology became the first person to be cryonically preserved when he was frozen a few hours after his death from cancer (1967)
  • All in the Family: groundbreaking sitcom premiered on TV, dealing with issues previously considered unacceptable — including racism, homosexuality and impotence (1971)
  • Deep Impact: space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral to study the core of comet 9P/Tempel by crashing into it; the probe reached its target in July (2005)
Birthdays
  • Edmund Burke 1729
  • Johann Pestalozzi 1746
  • Jack London 1876
  • John Singer Sargent 1856
  • Herman Goering 1893
  • Joe E. Lewis (Klewan) 1902
  • Tex (Woodward) Ritter 1905
  • Henny Youngman 1906
  • Luise Rainer 1910
  • Martin Agronsky 1915
  • P.W. Botha 1916
  • Ray Price 1926
  • Ruth Brown 1928
  • Lloyd Ruby 1928
  • Tim Horton 1930
  • Glenn Yarbrough (The Limeliters) 1930
  • James Fergason 1934
  • The "Amazing Kreskin" 1935
  • Ron Harper 1936
  • William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) 1939
  • Tucker (Ivan) Frederickson 1943
  • Joe Frazier 1944
  • Maggie Bell (Stone the Crows) 1945
  • Cynthia Robinson (Sly and the Family Stone) 1946
  • Anthony Andrews 1948
  • Wayne Wang 1949
  • Drew Pearson 1951
  • Rush Limbaugh 1951
  • Ricky Van Shelton 1952
  • Howard Stern 1954
  • Kirstie Alley 1955
  • George Duke 1956
  • Tommy Ardolino (NRBQ) 1957
  • Per Gessle (Roxette) 1959
  • Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows) 1960
  • Jeffrey Bezos 1964
  • Rob Zombie (White Zombie) 1966
  • Vendela 1967
  • TBird (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1967
  • Raekwon 1970 (Wu Tang Clan)
  • Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish) 1973
  • Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) 1975
  • Alicia Angel (t3h pr0n) 1984
  • Andrew Lawrence 1988


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