Wednesday, December 6, 2017

weald \weeld\, noun:

1. Wooded or uncultivated country.

2. A region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.

Related to the word wild, weald comes from the Old English word weald meaning “forest.”

 

Monitor Shopping

• To look at all the things on a retail site without making a purchase. You can look but you can't buy.

A: Ay, whatcha doing?

B: Monitor shopping on Asos.

A: Had to pay rent?

B: Yup.

History

• Encyclopædia Britannica: first "number," or pamphlet, was offered for sale in Edinburgh for sixpence (1768)
• Halifax: a French munitions vessel exploded, killing about 1,800 people, injuring some 9,000 more (one-fifth of the population), and destroying the northern part of Nova Scotia's capital (1917)
• Irish Free State: precursor to today's Republic of Ireland was formed (1922)
• Ulysses: a United States judge ruled that James Joyce's novel, in which characters correspond to Homeric figures, was not obscene (1933)
• Mars Global Surveyor: NASA released pictures of the red planet that seemed to show the recent presence of water (2006)

Birthdays

• Henry VI (England) 1421
  
• William S. Hart 1870
• Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886
• Osbert Sitwell 1892
• Ira Gershwin 1896
• Alfred Eisenstadt 1898
• Agnes Moorehead 1906
• Dave Brubeck 1920
• Wally Cox 1924
• David Ossman 1936
• Helen Cornelius 1941
• Len Barry 1942
• Jonathan King 1944
• James Naughton 1945
• Tom Hulce 1953
• Kin Shriner 1953
• Wil Shriner 1953
• JoBeth Williams 1953
• Miles Chapin 1954
• Chris Stamey (dB's) 1954
• Tish Hinojosa 1955
• Steven Wright 1955
• Rick Buckler (The Jam) 1955
• Bill Lloyd (Foster and Lloyd) 1955
• Randy Rhoads 1956
• Peter Buck (R.E.M.) 1956
• Janine Turner 1962
• Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl) 1962
• Ulf Ekberg (Ace of Base) 1970
• Ryan White 1971
• Lindsay Price 1976 (actress)