Thursday, December 27, 2018

Thursday, December 27, 2018

apopemptic \ap-uh-PEMP-tik\, adjective:
1. Pertaining to leave-taking or departing; valedictory.
noun:
1. Obsolete. A farewell address; valedictory.
Rising to prominence in the middle 1700s, apopemptic derives from the Greek apopemptikós, pertaining to 'sending away.'
 
chief beef
  • issue of main concern regarding a given subject
My chief beef about "Black Swan"? I don't know how it relates to the immigrant experience.

History
  • anesthesia: was first used for childbirth (1845)
  • Peter Pan: play by J.M. Barrie debuted in London (1904)
  • Carry Nation: hatchet-wielding temperance activist smashed her first saloon (1900)
  • Radio City Music Hall: world's largest indoor theater staged its first show (1932)
  • World Bank: was formed to fund postwar reconstruction in Europe; later, the focus turned to developing third-world countries (1945)
  • Afghanistan: was seized by Soviet forces; president Hafizullah Amin, was overthrown, executed and replaced with Soviet-supported Babrak Karmal (1979)
  • Free Aceh Movement: Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disbanded their military wing, ending a 30-year armed struggle for independence, in accordance with a peace deal that came out of the 2004 tsunami (2005)
Birthdays
  • Johannes Kepler 1571
  • George Cayley 1773
  • Louis Pasteur 1822
  • Sydney Greenstreet 1879
  • Marlene Dietrich 1901
  • Anna Russell 1911
  • William H. Masters 1915
  • Oscar Levant 1916
  • Scotty Moore 1931
  • Walter Norris 1931
  • Lee Salk 1926
  • Inga Swenson 1932
  • Dave Marr 1933
  • Bernard Lanvin 1935
  • John Amos 1941
  • Leslie Maguire (Gerry and The Pacemakers) 1941
  • Pete Quaife (Kinks) 1943
  • Cokie Roberts 1943
  • Tracy Nelson 1944
  • Mickey Redmond 1947
  • Mick Jones (Foreigner) 1947
  • Gerard Depardieu 1948
  • Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons) 1950
  • Karla Bonoff 1952
  • Tovah Feldshuh 1952
  • David Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1952
  • Arthur Kent 1953
  • John Watts (Fischer-Z) 1954
  • Maryam D'Abo 1960
  • Youth (Killing Joke) 1961
  • Jeff Bryant (Ricochet) 1962
  • Eva La Rue 1966
  • Joan Marie "Chyna" Laurer 1969
  • Matt Slocum (Six Pence None The Richer) 1972
  • Wilson Cruz 1973
  • Olu 1973
  • Emilie de Ravin - Actress ("Roswell", "Lost")


 

 

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