Saturday, June 5, 2021

abstemious \ab-STEE-mee-uhs\, adjective: 

1. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent.
2. Sparingly used or consumed; used with temperance or moderation.
3. Marked by or spent in abstinence.

Abstemious comes from Latin abstemius, from ab-, abs-, "away from" + the root of temetum, "intoxicating drink."

 

SOML 

• Story of my life, used to tell someone that an occurance has happened to them frequently.

lolz1: ur so ghey omfg2: oh shoot stfu errbudy be rejectin my azz

 

History

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier: took the first successful balloon flight (1783)
• gold standard: was abandoned by the United States (1933)

  
• Marshall Plan: Secretary of State George Marshall outlined his aid program for Europe in a speech at Harvard (1947)
• Six-Day War: began; Israel was victorious against Egypt, Syria and Jordan; Jerusalem was reunited (1967)
• Robert Kennedy: US presidential candidate was shot by Sirhan Sirhan; he died the next day (1968)
• AIDS: first cases were reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; they were five people in Los Angeles (1981)

Birthdays

• Adam Smith 1723 - Author

  
• "Pancho" Villa (Francisco Villa, José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) - Mexican Revolutionary general
• John Maynard Keynes 1883 - Economist
• William Boyd (William Lawrence Boyd) 1895 - Actor
• Dennis Gabor 1900 - Electrical engineer, inventor of holography
• Eddie Joost 1916 - Baseball player
• "Specs" Powell (Gordon "Specs" Powell) 1922 - Drummer
• Bill Hayes (William "Bill" Foster Hayes III) 1925 - Actor
• Tony Richardson (Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson) 1928 - Director, producer
• Robert Lansing (Robert Howell Brown) 1929 - Actor

  
• Jacques Demy 1931 - Filmmaker
• Pete Jolly 1932 - Musician
• Bill Moyers 1934 - Broadcast journalist
• Spalding Gray 1941 - Actor, playwright, screenwriter
• Floyd Butler 1941 - Musician (Fifth Dimension)
• Don Reid 1945 - Musician (The Statler Brothers)
• Fred Stone 1946 - Musician (Sly & The Family Stone)
• Gail Davies 1948 - Country singer
• Ken Follet 1949 - author
• Laurie Anderson 1950 - Singer
• Wayne Wood 1951 - Hockey player
• Marva Jean Brooks 1954 - Wife of Muddy Waters
• Michael Henry Nicko "Boomer" McBrain 1954 - Drummer (Iron Maiden)
• Kenny G. 1956 - Musician
• Richard Butler 1956 - Musician (Psychedelic Furs)
• Karen Sillas 1965 - Actress
• Ron Livingston 1967 - Actor ("Band of Brothers," "Office Space")
• Brian McKnight 1969 - Singer
• Mark Wahlberg 1971 - Actor, singer (Marky Mark)
• Chad Allen 1974 - Singer
• P-Nut 1974 - Musician (311)
• Torry Holt 1976 - Football player
• Liza Weil 1977 - Actress ("The Gilmore Girls")
• Pete Wentz 1979 - Musician (Fall Out Boy)
• Seb Lefebvre 1981 - Musician (Simple Plan)