Wednesday, September 8, 2021

refulgent \rih-FUL-juhnt\, adjective:

• Shining brightly; radiant; brilliant; resplendent.

Refulgent comes from the present participle of Latin refulgere, "to flash back, to shine brightly," from re-, "back" + fulgere, "to shine."

 

NIB 

• New in Box, meaning brand new and never used

I saw a few NIB items up on ebay last night.

 

History

• St. Augustine: the oldest permanent European settlement in the US was founded (1565)
• Galveston Hurricane: made landfall; it was the deadliest natural disaster to strike the US to date (1900)
  

  
• Miss America: the annual pageant was first held in Atlantic City; 16-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington DC was the first to be crowned (1921)
• Siege of Leningrad: nearly 2.5-year blockade of the city by the Germans in WWII began (1941)
• Star Trek: TV series recounting the adventures of the starship Enterprise premiered (1966)
• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: opened in Washington, DC, with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass (1971)
• Watergate: US president Gerald Ford granted his predecessor, Richard Nixon, a full pardon for "crimes he committed or may have committed" (1974)

Birthdays

• Richard the Lionhearted (England) 1157
• Antonin Dvorak 1841
• Jimmie Rodgers 1897
• Claude Pepper 1900
  
• Hillary Brooke 1914
• Sid Caesar 1922
• Peter Sellers 1925
• Harlan Howard 1927
• Patsy Cline 1932
• Willie Tyler 1940
• Alan Feinstein 1941
• Christopher Connelly 1941
• Dante Drowty (Dante and The Evergreens) 1941
• Brian Cole (The Association) 1942
• Ron McKernan (Grateful Dead) 1945
• Ben Orr (Benjamin Orzechowski) (The Cars) 1947
• Ann Beattie 1947
• Will Lee 1952
• Heather Thomas 1957
• Michael Lardie (Great White) 1958
• David Steele (English Beat, Fine Young Cannibals) 1960
• Marc Gordon (Levert) 1964
• Brooke Burke 1971
• David Arquette 1971
• Larenz Tate 1975
• P!nk (Alecia Beth Moore Hart) 1979 - Singer
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1981
     
  
  
   
  
  
  

 

A funny story. During the 80s I had several Heather Thomas posters in my bedroom. I had a friend who insisted that he had the issue of Playboy in which she was nude. I asked to see it a couple times but he never produced it. Now with t3h int3rw3bz I have found NO EVIDENCE that she ever did such a spread. Moral of the story? Never lie. You never know when the truth might come out.

              

These are some of my fav pics of her.