Tuesday, November 13, 2018

glean \GLEEN\, verb:

1. To learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly.
2. To gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers.
3. To gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.

Glean traces its origin back through Latin to the Celtic glan, "clean, pure." The sense "to learn or gather slowly" appears in English before the sense of "to gather grain left by the reapers."

Red Pen Police 

• People who preoccupy themselves with correcting the spelling and grammar of others - normally out of some self-esteem issue or desire to prove some value from their otherwise useless thirty-grand education.

-- Lengthy, intelligent facebook status meant to prompt discussion --

Comment: You're* 
Reply: UH OH RED PEN POLICE 
Reply: Uh oh red pen police.*

History

• Saint Brice's Day Massacre: King Ethelred of England ordered the murder of all Danes in his country (1002)
  
• death & taxes: Benjamin Franklin listed life's two certainties in a letter (1789)
• Holland Tunnel: the world's first long, mechanically-ventilated, underwater tunnel opened between New York and New Jersey (1927)
• Fantasia: animated musical Disney film premiered (1940)
• Bhola cyclone: the 20th century's greatest natural disaster killed hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh (1970 )
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial: "the Wall," designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC (1982)

Birthdays 

• Edwin Booth 1833
• Robert Louis Stevenson 1850
• Louis Brandeis 1856
• Alexander Scourby 1913
• Nathaniel Benchley 1915
• Jack Elam 1916
• Oskar Werner 1922
• Clyde McPhatter (Drifters) 1933
• Joonas Kokkonen 1921
• Madeleine Sherwood 1922
• Linda Christian 1924
• Richard Mulligan 1932
• Garry Marshall 1934
• Jean Seberg 1938
• Dack (Norman) Rambo 1941
• Ray Wylie Hubbard 1946
• Joe Mantegna 1947
• Whoopi Goldberg 1949
• Chris Noth 1957
• Tracy Scoggins 1959
• Caroline Goodall 1959
• Vinny Testaverde 1963
• Walter Kibby (Fishbone) 1964
• Jimmy Kimmel 1967
• Steve Zahn 1968
• Gerard Butler 1969 (The 300 Guy)