writhen \ rith-uhn \ , adjective;
- Archaic . twisted.
Origin: Writhen has been in English since before 900. It is related to the Old English verb wrīthan meaning "to twist, wind" which in turn is a cognate with the Old Norse rītha meaning "to knit, twist."
deface
- To remove a 'friendship' from facebook due to having either accidentally adding him/her as a friend or actually adding them and reconsidering later.
"Yeah, there was this guy in my network who added me. I thought he looked OK, but his updates were really cramping my news feed, so I had to deface him."
"I went on a date with a girl I met a week before and like the day after our date she changed her status to 'in a relationship.' I defaced her."
History
- Edwin Drake: drilled America's first successful oil well near Titusville, PA
- Krakatoa: volcano erupted in the loudest explosion ever recorded; the resultant tsunami killed 36,000 (1883)
- Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in history ended after less than an hour when Zanzibar surrendered (1896)
- Kellogg-Briand Pact: multinational treaty signed in Paris outlawed war — about 11 years before the same nations took part in WWII (1928)
- Mariner 2: the US launched a space probe to Venus; it flew past the planet in December (1962)
- Mars: the red planet got up close and personal with Earth — only 55,758,006 km away (2003)
- George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770
- Margaret Hungerford 1850
- Theodore Dreiser 1871
- Charles Rolls 1877
- Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S.) 1908
- Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Theresa) 1910
- Martha Raye 1916
- Jimmy C. Newman 1927
- Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (South Africa) 1928
- Ira Levin 1929
- Carter Stanley 1935 - Musician (Stanley Brothers)
- J.D. Crowe 1937
- Tommy Sands 1937
- Daryl Dragon 1942 - Musician (The Captain and Tennille)
- Tuesday Weld 1943
- Tim Bogert 1944 - Musician (Vanilla Fudge)
- Marianne Sagebrecht 1945
- Harry Reems 1947
- Barbara Bach 1947
- Jeff Cook 1949 - Musician (Alabama)
- Buddy Bell 1951
- Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens 1952
- Willy DeVille 1953
- Alex Lifeson 1953 - Musician (Rush)
- Diana Scarwid 1955
- Glenn Matlock 1956 - Musician (Sex Pistols)
- Dean Delvin 1962
- Mike Johnson 1965 - Musician (Dinosaur Jr.)
- Bobo 1968 - Musician (Cypres Hill)
- Tony Kanal 1970 - Musician (No Doubt)
- Sarah Chalke 1976
- Jon Siebels 1979 - Musician (Eve)
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