Sunday, September 05, 2021

Sunday, September 5, 2021

voluptuary \vuh-LUHP-choo-er-ee\, 
noun:
  1. A person devoted to luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites; a sensualist.
adjective:
  1. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by preoccupation with luxury and sensual pleasure.
Voluptuary derives from Latin voluptarius, "devoted to pleasure," from voluptas, "pleasure."
 
nerd-person 

  • The voice someone uses when explaining something technical or generally nerdy.
I always switch to the nerd-person when discussing the finer points of ewok economics
 
History
  • Peter the Great: the Russian czar levied a tax on beards (1698)
  • Continental Congress: delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) convened in Philadelphia to seek repeal of the British Intolerable Acts (1774)
  • Sam Houston: was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas (1836)
  • On the Road: Jack Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness novel, considered a defining work of the Beat Generation, was published (1957)
  • Munich Massacre: Palestinian terrorists of the Black September group murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics (1972)
Birthdays
  • Louis VIII (King of France) 1187
  • Louis XIV (King of France) 1638
  • Johann Christian Bach 1735
  • Jesse James 1847
  • Morris Carnovsky 1897
  • Arthur Charles Nielsen 1897
  • Florence Eldridge 1901
  • Darryl F. Zanuck 1902
  • Arthur Koestler 1905
  • John Cage 1912
  • Gail Kubik 1914
  • Jack Buetel 1917
  • Jack Valenti 1921
  • Bob Newhart 1929
  • Andrian G Nikolayev 1929
  • Robert Dennard 1932
  • Carol Lawrence 1935
  • John Ferguson 1938
  • William Devane 1939
  • Clay Regazzoni 1939
  • Susumu Tonegawa 1939
  • John Stewart (The Kingston Trio) 1939
  • Raquel Welch 1940
  • Eduardo Mata 1942
  • Steve Miller 1943
  • Al Stewart 1945
  • Buddy Miles 1946
  • Loudon Wainwright III 1946
  • Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946
  • Kathy Cronkite 1950
  • Cathy Lee Guisewaite 1950
  • Jamie Oldaker (The Tractors) 1951
  • Sandra Guiboard 1956
  • Kristian Alfonso 1964
  • Terry Ellis (En Vogue) 1966
  • Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine) 1968
  • Dweezil Zappa 1969
  • Tina Yothers 1973
  • Rose McGowan 1974
  • Andrew Ducote 1986

 

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