Saturday, February 15, 2020

Saturday, February 15, 2020

galligaskins \gal-i-GAS-kinz\, noun:
1. leggings or gaiters, usually of leather.
2. loose hose or breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Galligaskins is of obscure origin, though it's often associated with the now-obsolete French word garguesques. It entered English in the 1570s. 

page clicker
  • An eBook that is exciting to read and hard to put down.
While reading Neil deGrass Tyson's Autobiography on my Amazon Kindle and his personal account of the events of September 11th 2001 I found the eBook to be a real page clicker as I became absorbed in the story.


History
  • USS Maine: exploded and sank in Havana harbor, helping to provoke the Spanish-American War (1898)
  • Decimal Day: the UK and Ireland switched their currencies to a decimal system (1971)
  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: the Soviet Union announced that all its troops had left Afghanistan, nine years after the invasion began (1989)
  • Canadian flag: red-and-white maple leaf banner was adopted (1965)
  • YouTube: video sharing website launched in the US (2005)
Birthdays
  • Galileo Galilei 1564 - Astronomer
  • John Sutter 1803
  • Cyrus McCormick (Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr.) 1809 - Inventor
  • Charles Tiffany 1812
  • Susan B. Anthony 1820 - American suffragist
  • Harold Arlen 1905
  • Cesar Romero 1907
  • Kevin McCarthy 1914
  • Hank Locklin 1918
  • Harvey Korman 1927
  • Graham Hill 1929
  • Claire Bloom 1931
  • Gerhard M. Sessler 1931
  • Adolfo (Adolfo Sardina) 1933
  • Susan Brownmiller 1935
  • Bill Bradley (Will Jr.) 1938
  • Brian Holland 1941 - Songwriter
  • Mick Avory (The Kinks) 1944
  • John Helliwell (Supertramp) 1945
  • Rusty Hamer 1947
  • David Brown (Santana) 1947
  • Sherry (Sharon) Jackson 1947
  • Marisa Berenson 1948
  • Jane Seymour 1951 - Actress ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman")
  • Melissa Manchester 1951 - Singer
  • Matt Groenig 1954 - Cartoonist ("The Simpsons")
  • Ali Campbell 1959 - Musician (UB40)
  • Mikey Craig 1960 - Musician (Culture Club)
  • Darrel Green 1960 - Football player
  • Chris Farley 1964
  • Michael Easton 1967
  • Emily May Young 1970
  • Renee O'Connor 1971
  • Jaromir Jagr 1972 - Hockey player
  • Brandon Boyd 1976
  • Ashley Lyn Cafagna 1983
  • Russell Martin - 1983 - Baseball player


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