Thursday, March 28, 2019

Thursday, March 28, 2019

sundry \SUHN-dree\, adjective:
  • various or diverse: sundry persons.
Sundry first appeared in English before the year 900. It is derived from the Old English syndrig meaning "separate," "apart," and "special." While sundi and sundrie were acceptable spellings between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, since then they have fallen out of use in favor of sundry.
 
prexhausted
  • Preemptively exhausted. When you are exhausted just by thinking about something.
It's March and I'm prexhausted by finals.
You want to go out dancing tonight? I'm prexhausted, sorry.
 
Trivia
What vitamin C–rich vegetable did miners pay for with gold during the 1897 Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush?
  • Potatoes, which they hoped would prevent scurvy.
History
  • Andrew Jackson: US president was censured by the Senate for his actions in the Bank War; the censure was later expunged from the record (1834)
  • Turkey: key cities changed names: Constantinople became Istanbul and Angora was tweaked to Ankara (1930)
  • Virginia Woolf: distinguished novelist, critic and essayist (A Room Of One's Own) committed suicide by drowning; she had been suffering from depression and bouts of mental illness for many years (1941)
  • Three Mile Island: the most serious nuclear accident in US history took place at a power station in Pennsylvania (1979)
Birthdays
  • Santi Raphael 1483
  • Paul Whiteman 1890
  • August Busch 1899
  • Rudolf Serkin 1903
  • Frank Lovejoy 1912
  • Jay Livingston 1915
  • Dirk Bogarde 1921
  • Thad Jones 1923
  • Freddie Bartholomew 1924
  • Eric Dixon 1930
  • Bill Anthony 1930
  • Charlie McCoy 1941 - Country musician
  • Mike Newell 1942 - Director
  • Conchata Ferrell 1943 - Actress
  • Ken Howard 1944 - Actor
  • Chuck Portz (The Turtles) 1945
  • Barry Miles 1947
  • Dianne Wiest 1948 - Actress ("Law and Order")
  • Milan Williams 1948 - Musician (Commodores)
  • Ronnie Ray Smith 1949
  • Reba McEntire 1955 - Actress, country singer
  • Tracey Needham 1967 - Actress
  • Max Perlich 1968 - Actor
  • Salt (Cheryl James) 1969 - Rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
  • Vince Vaughn 1969 - Actor
  • Brett Ratner 1969 - Actor
  • Mr. Cheeks 1971 - Rapper (Lost Boyz)
  • Ken L. 1973 - Actor
  • Annie Wershing 1977 - Actress ("24")
  • Julia Stiles 1981 - Actress
  • Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) 1986 - Musician



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