Friday, January 26, 2018

Friday, January 26, 2018

mettle \MET-l\, noun:
1. Courage and fortitude.
2. Disposition or temperament.
Mettle was used interchangeably with the material metal until the early 1700s. Mettle continued to be used in the figurative sense of "stuff of which a person is made" even as the spellings diverged.
Haters Gonna Hate

  • A phrase that represents ones complete and total disregard of another's negative comment towards the original person.
*Guy 1 is walking down the street and passes Guy 2*
Guy 2: Why are you so ugly?
Guy 1: Haters Gonna Hate. 
*Keeps on walking*




 Dude 1: Hey Fatty!
Dude 2: Haters Gonna Hate

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History
  • Vicente Yáñez Pinzón discovered Brazil (1500)
  • Rum Rebellion: armed takeover of New South Wales, Australia (1808)
  • Cullinan Diamond: was discovered in the Premier Mine, South Africa; it is the largest gem-quality diamond ever found and the stones that were cut and polished from it are now part of the British crown jewels (1905)
  • Republic Day of India: India's constitution took effect two and a half years after independence (1950)
  • Lotus 1-2-3: the popular spreadsheet software for the IBM PC was released (1983)
  • Phantom of the Opera: opened on Broadway; it is now the longest-running Broadway musical (1988)
Birthdays
  • Douglas MacArthur 1880
  • Stephane Grappelli 1908
  • Cora Baird 1912
  • William Prince 1913
  • James Van Heusen 1913
  • William Hopper 1915
  • Derek Bond 1919
  • Page Cavanaugh (Page Cavanaugh Trio) 1922
  • Anne Jeffreys 1923
  • Paul Newman 1925
  • Joan Leslie 1925
  • Roger Vadim 1928
  • Jules Feiffer 1929
  • Mary Murphy 1931
  • Claude Gray (The Tall Texan) 1932
  • Huey "Piano" Smith 1934
  • Bob Uecker 1935
  • Scott Glenn 1942
  • Jean Knight 1943
  • Angela Davis 1944
  • Gene Siskel 1946
  • David Strathairn 1949
  • David Briggs (The Little River Band) 1951
  • Lucinda Williams 1953 - Singer
  • Eddie Van Halen 1957 - Guitar player (Van Halen)
  • Ellen DeGeneres 1958 - Actress-comedian.
  • Norman Hassan (UB40) 1958 - Musician
  • Tom Keifer 1961 - Musician (Cinderella) 
  • Wayne Gretzky 1961 - Hockey hall-of-famer.
  • Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!) 1963
  • Jazzie B. (Soul II Soul) 1963
  • Kirk Franklin 1970
    LeeAnna Vamp 1987


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