Monday, March 30, 2020

  

[Pictured: Katie Fey, aka Jenya D]

fey \FAY\, adjective:

1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.

2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.

3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.

4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.

5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.

Fey comes from Middle English feye, feie, from Old English fæge, "fated to die."

 

caveat \KAY-vee-at; KAV-ee-; KAH-vee-aht\, noun:

1. a warning or caution; admonition.
2. Law. a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a certain proceeding until the notifier is given a hearing: a caveat filed against the probate of a will.

Caveat comes from the Latin caveat, "let him beware," from cavere, "to beware." 

tree-book

• A book printed on dead trees, i.e. paper, as opposed to an e-book, which only exists electronically. Compare with snail mail.

Thomas: Hey, how do you like your new Kindle? 
Andrew: I don't know, I haven't used it yet. I'm still trying to finish all the tree-books I'm reading.

History

• anesthesia: was first used in an operation; a tumor was removed from a man's neck while he was under the effects of ether (1842)
• pencil: patent was awarded to Hymen Lipman for attaching an eraser to the end (1858); it was declared invalid by the US Supreme Court 17 years later because his invention was simply "an aggregation of separate elements"
• Seward's Folly: the US bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2m. — about 2 cents an acre (1867)
• 15th amendment: was declared in effect, giving black men the right to vote (1870)
• Jeopardy!: game show debuted on television (1964)
• Ronald Reagan: was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.; the US president was hit in the chest and seriously wounded, but recovered fully (1981)

Birthdays

• Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes 1746
• Anna Sewell 1820
• Vincent Van Gogh 1853
• Jo Davidson 1883
• Ted Heath 1900
• Frankie Laine 1913 - Singer
• Richard Dysart 1929 - Actor
• John Astin 1930 - Actor ("Addams Family")
• Rolf Harris 1930 - Singer
• Peter Marshall 1930 - Game show host ("Hollywood Squares")
• Warren Beatty 1937 - Actor
• Jerry Lucas 1940 - Basketball player
• Astrud Gilberto 1940
• Graeme Edge 1941 - Musician (Moody Blues)
• Bobby Wright 1942
• Ronnie Rice 1944 (New Colony 6)
• Eric Clapton 1945 - Musician
• Jim Dandy Mangrum 1948 - Musician (Black Oak Arkansas)
• Robbie Coltrane 1950 - Actor
• Dave Ball 1950 - Musician (Procol Harum)
• Re Styles 1950 - Musician (The Tubes)
• Lene Lovich 1954 - Singer

  
• Randy VanWarmer 1955 - Singer, songwriter
• Paul Reiser 1957 - Actor (Mad About You, ALIENS), comedian
• M.C. Hammer 1962 - Rapper
• Ian Ziering 1964 - Actor
• Tracy Chapman 1964 - Singer
• Donna D'Errico 1968 - actress, model. See more HERE
• Celine Dion 1968 - Singer
• Mark Consuelos 1970 - Actor
• Norah Jones 1979 - Musician
• Scott Moffatt 1983 - Singer, musician (The Moffats)
• Jevgenija Diordiychuk 1983 - model, Russian PMOY AKA: Yevgenia / Eugenia / Evgenia Diordiychuk, Jenya D, Shawnee, Katie Fey, Shawnee, Vanesa Gojgi. See more HERE 
  Misty Romano 1989

 

   

               

 

 

 

 

 

  

    

     

  

Jevgenija Diordijchuk (real name)

AKA: Yevgenia / Eugenia / Evgenia Diordiychuk, Jenya D, Shawnee, Katie Fey, Shawnee, Vanesa Gojgik