Tuesday, August 10, 2021

peradventure \puhr-uhd-VEN-chuhr; pehr-\ , adverb:

1. [Archaic] Possibly; perhaps.

noun: 

1. Chance, uncertainty, or doubt.

Origin: Peradventure derives from Old French per aventure, "by chance," from per, "through" (from Latin) + aventure, "chance," ultimately from the past participle of Latin advenire, "to arrive," from ad-, "to; toward" + venire, "to come."

Cockroach Blocked

• When you find a cockroach in your apartment right before going to bed and your girlfriend is too freaked out to have sex.

"I swear to god, those damn cockroaches only show up on nights when I'm going to get some. Cockroach blocked again."

 

History

• Ferdinand Magellan: set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe; of the five ships that set out under his command, only one — the Victoria — returned to Spain (1519)
• Smithsonian Institution: was created with $500,000 left by English scientist James Smithson (1846)
• Son of Sam: New York serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested (1977)
• Yuri Malenchenko: Ukrainian cosmonaut became the first person to be married in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas (2003)

Birthdays

• Herbert Clark Hoover (U.S.) 1874
• Leo Fender 1909
• Jeff Corey 1914
• Al Alberts (Four Aces) 1922
  
• Rhonda Fleming 1923
• Claus Von Bulow 1926
• Jimmy Martin 1927
• Jimmy Dean 1928
• Eddie Fisher 1928
• Rocky Colavito 1933
• Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) 1940
• Ronnie Spector 1947
• Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 1947
• Patti Austin 1948
• Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) 1949
• Daniel Hugh Kelly 1952
• Rosanna Arquette 1959
• Antonio Banderas 1960
• John Farriss (INXS) 1961
• Julia Fordham 1962
• Aaron Hall 1964
• Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) 1967
• Todd Nichols (Toad The Wet Sprocket) 1967
• Michael Bivins 1968
• Angie Harmon 1972
• Nikki Bratcher (Divine) 1980