Tuesday, August 13, 2019

dreck \drek\, noun: 

1. worthless trash; junk.
2. excrement; dung.

Dreck entered English in the 1920s from the Yiddish word drek, which comes from the German word Dreck meaning "filth."

 
Friend surge

• Adding a large number of friends or followers on social media in the hours after returning home from summer camp.

After returning home from camp, Anna experienced a Friend surge, gaining 32 followers on Instagram in one afternoon.

Trivia

What 1950s-era car featured a speedometer that glowed when a preset speed was reached?

• The ill-fated Ford Edsel, in 1958.

History

• Mexico City: city then known as Tenochtitlán fell to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, along with the entire Aztec Empire (1521)

  
• taxicabs: first appeared on the streets of New York City (1907)
• Bambi: the animated Disney movie opened at Radio City Music Hall (1942)
• Echo 1: the first balloon satellite was launched, allowing the first two-way phone conversation via satellite (1960)
• Berlin: was divided by barbed wire, which soon became the Berlin Wall (1961)

Birthdays

• William Caxton 1422
• Lucy Stone 1818
• Annie Oakley 1860
• Bert Lahr 1895
• Alfred Hitchcock 1899
• Regis Toomey 1902
• "Buddy" Charles Rogers 1904
• Gene Raymond 1908
• Ben Hogan 1912
• Rex Humbard 1919
  
• George Shearing 1919
• Neville Brand 1920
• Fidel Castro 1926
• Pat Harrington 1929
• Don Ho 1930
• Joycelyn Elders 1933
• Son Seals 1942
• Kevin Tighe 1944
• Gretchen Corbett 1947
• Kathleen Battle 1948
• Bobby Clarke 1949
• Cliff Fish (Paper Lace) 1949
• Dan Fogelberg 1951
• Feargal Sharkey (Undertones) 1958
• Danny Bonaduce 1959
• Quinn Cummings 1967
• Andy Griggs 1973
• Vicca 1974 - t3h pr0n