Thursday, April 11, 2019

Thursday, April 11, 2019

pharaonic \fair-ey-ON-ik, far-\, adjective:
  1. (usually lowercase) impressively or overwhelmingly large, luxurious, etc.: a construction project of pharaonic proportions.
  2. (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
  3. (lowercase) cruelly oppressive; tyrannical: pharaonic tax laws.
Pharaonic's root can be traced back to the Egyptian pr-ʿo, literally meaning "great house." While the noun Pharaoh entered the language though Old English, English speakers didn’t use this particular adjectival form until the late eighteenth century.
 
Wise beyond beers
  • Being able to actually remember the philosophical shit you talked about while wasted the night before.
Damn I can't believe you remembered all that shit. You sir are wise beyond beers.

History
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to Elba (1814)
  • The Tramp: Charlie Chaplin's comic silent film was released (1915)
  • Jackie Robinson: broke the color barrier in major league baseball, appearing in his first exhibition game (1947)
  • 1968 Civil Rights Act: LBJ signed into law an act prohibiting discrimination in selling or renting housing
  • Uganda: Idi Amin's military regime was overthrown (1979)
Birthdays
  • Lizzie P. Bliss 1864 - Co-founder of New York City's Museum of Modern Art
  • Lou Holtz 1893 - Comedian, actor
  • Dean G. Acheson 1893
  • Percy Julian 1899 - Scientist
  • Dale Messick 1906 - Cartoonist ("Brenda Starr")
  • Paul Douglas 1907 - Actor
  • Jane Bolin 1908 - Attorney, first black woman to graduate from Yale School of Law, first black, female judge
  • John Levy 1912 - Jazz musician (George Shearing quintet)
  • Oleg Cassini 1913 - Fashion designer
  • Cameron Mitchell 1918
  • Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber 1918
  • Dorothy Shay 1921 - Singer, actress
  • Ralph Blaze 1922 - Guitarist (with Stan Kenton)
  • Ethel Kennedy (Skakel) 1928 - Wife of U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy
  • Johnny Sheffield 1931 - Actor
  • Joel Grey 1932 - Singer (Katz), dancer, actor ("Cabaret"), actress Jennifer Grey's father
  • Richard Berry 1935
  • Louise Lasser 1939 - Actress ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "Slither")
  • Ellen Goodman 1941 - Syndicated columnist
  • John Milius 1944 - Director, screenwriter
  • Joe Beauchamp 1944 - Football player
  • Meshach Taylor 1947 - Actor ("Designing Women")
  • Peter Riegert 1947 - Actor ("The Mask")
  • Bill Irwin 1950 - Actor ("Hot Shots!", "Popeye"), choreographer
  • Stever George 1951 - Football player
  • Sid Monge 1951 - Baseball player
  • Chris Difford 1954 - Musician (Squeeze)
  • Neville Staple 1956 - Musician (The Specials)
  • Jim Lauderdale 1957 - Country singer, songwriter
  • Daryl Simmons 1957 - Songwriter, producer
  • Stuart (William) Adamson 1958 - Musician (Big Country)
  • Lucky Vanous 1961 - Actor
  • Steve Azar 1964 - Country singer
  • Nigel Pulsford 1965 - Musician (Bush)
  • Lisa Stansfield 1966 - Singer, songwriter
  • Delroy Pearson 1970 - Musician (Five Star)
  • Dylan Keefe 1970 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
  • Jason Varitek 1972 - Baseball player
  • Tricia Helfer 1974
  • Mark Teixeira 1980 - Baseball player
    Alessandra Ambrosio - 1981
  • Joss Stone 1987 - Singer



 
  

 

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