Friday, December 08, 2017

Friday, December 8, 2017

copse \kops\, noun:
  • A thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
Copse is derived from the Old French word copeiz meaning “a cut-over forest” which originates in the Latin word colpaticum meaning “having been cut.”
 
sleep drunk
  • When you're woken up from a nap and your mental state of confusion resembles that of a drunken state.
When that crazy bitch tried to crawl into bed with me, I was too sleep drunk to say no.

History
  • Immaculate Conception: the belief that the Virgin Mary was born free of sin was defined as a dogma by Pope Pius IX (1854)
  • World War II: the day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the US entered into WWII (1941)
  • CIS: the Commonwealth of Independent States was established instead of the USSR by Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (1991)
  • NAFTA: Canadian-Mexican-US trade pact was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton (1993)
Birthdays
  • Horace 65 B.C.
  • Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) 1542
  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson 1832
  • Diego Rivera 1886
  • James Thurber 1894
  • Lee J. Cobb 1911
  • Floyd Tillman 1914
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. 1925
  • Richard Fleischer 1926
  • Maximillian Schell 1930
  • Flip Wilson 1933
  • David Carradine 1936
  • James MacArthur 1937
  • Jerry Butler 1939
  • James Galway 1939
  • Bobby Elliot (The Hollies) 1942
  • Jim Morrison (Doors) 1943
  • John Rubenstein 1946
  • Greg Allman (Allman Brothers) 1947
  • Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant) 1949
  • Kim Basinger 1953
  • Warren Cuccurullo (Duran Duran) 1957
  • Phil Collen (Def Leppard) 1957 
  • Marty Raybon (The Raybon Brothers) 1959
  • Paul Rutherford (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) 1959
  • Marty Friedman (Megadeth) 1962
  • Malcolm Gets 1963
  • Teri Hatcher 1964
  • Sinead O'Connor 1966
  • Matthew Laborteaux 1966
  • Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) 1966
  • Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) 1972
  • Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) 1973
  • Dominic Monaghan (Dominic Bernard Patric Monaghan) 1976 - Actor ("Lost," "Lord of the Rings")
  • Ian Somerhalder 1978 - Actor ("Lost," "The Vampire Diaries")

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