Thursday, December 14, 2017

cleave \kleev\, verb:

1. To adhere closely; stick; cling.

2. To remain faithful.

3. To split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow, especially along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood.

4. To make by or as if by cutting.

5. To penetrate or pass through (air, water, etc.).

6. To cut off; sever.

7. To part or split, especially along a natural line of division.

8. To penetrate or advance by or as if by cutting.

Cleave is actually related to two separate but similar Old English words. Cleofan meant “to split,” while clifian meant “to adhere.” Today the same word carries both meanings.

stankin

• grotesque odor; unpleasurable scent

Keep on, Dey gon' find yo' body somewhere stankin'!

History 

• St. Lucia's flood: a broken dike in the Netherlands caused one of the worst floods in history; 50,000+ people were killed (1287)
• Alabama: The Yellowhammer State became America's 22nd state (1819)
• South Pole: was first visited by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his expedition (1911)
• Motown: record label that popularized the Motown Sound was formed in Detroit (1959)
• Apollo program: Eugene Cernan, as a member of Apollo 17, became the last man on the moon so far (1972)

Birthdays

• Nostradamus 1503
• Tycho Brahe 1546
• Roger Fry 1866
• George VI (Britain) 1895
• James Doolittle 1896
• Margaret Chase Smith 1897
• Bill Burke 1902
• Morey Amsterdam 1908
• Spike (Lindley Armstrong) Jones 1911
• Dan Dailey 1913
• Shirley Jackson 1919
• Clark Terry 1920
• Don Hewitt 1922
• Abbe Lane 1932
• George Furth 1932
• Charlie Rich 1932
• Lee Remick 1935
• Hal Williams 1938
• Frank St. Marseille (NHL) 1939 
• James Sutorius 1944
• Jane Birkin 1946
• Stan Smith 1946
• Patty Duke 1946
• Michael Ovitz 1946
• Jackie McCauley (Them) 1946
• Joyce Vincent-Wilson (Tony Orlando, Dawn) 1946
• Dee Wallace-Stone 1948
• Bill Buckner (MLB) 1949
• Cliff Williams (AC/DC) 1949 
• Tamara Daanz 1952
• Mike Scott (The Waterboys) 1958
• Peter "Spider" Stacy (The Pogues) 1958
• Cynthia Gibb 1963
• Brian Dalyrimple (Soul for Real) 1975
• Bridget Hall 1977
• Sophie Monk 1979
• Vanessa Anne Hudgens 1988 ...