Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

atelier \at-l-YAY\, noun:
  • A workshop; a studio.
Origin: Atelier comes from French, from Old French astelier, "carpenter's shop," from astele, "splinter," from Late Latin astella, alteration of Latin astula, itself an alteration of assula, "a shaving, a chip," diminutive of assis, "board."

instagram bae
  • someone who likes all your Instagram pictures and gives you shoutouts and acts like Yall a couple over instagram.
Dang who this girl liking all ya pics on IG?

That's my Instagram Bae

History
  • x-rays: discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen was announced; though their exact nature was unknown to him (hence the name), the achievement won him the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1896)
  • minimum wage: Henry Ford instituted the first minimum wage; he paid his employees at least $5 a day (1914)
  • Fair Deal: newly reelected president Harry S. Truman coined the phrase to refer to a 21-point program he sent to Congress in 1945, focusing on civil rights and social welfare (1949)
  • Prague Spring: a brief period of reform began in Czechoslovakia; it ended later in the year with a Soviet invasion (1968)
  • Eris: largest dwarf planet was discovered (2005)
Birthdays
  • Stephen Decatur 1779
  • Edmund Ruffin 1794
  • Jeannette Piccard 1895
  • George Reeves 1914
  • Al Blozis 1919
  • Erica Morini 1919
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont 1911
  • Sam Phillips 1920
  • Buddy Young 1926
  • W.D. Snodgrass 1926
  • Fred Glover 1928
  • Walter 'Fritz' Mondale 1928
  • Robert Duvall 1930
  • Alvin Ailey 1931
  • Chuck Noll 1932
  • Johnny Adams 1932
  • Francois d'Aulan 1932
  • Earl Battey 1935
  • Lindsay Crosby 1938
  • Chuck McKinley 1941
  • Wayne Rutledge 1942
  • Sam Wyche 1945
  • Diane Keaton 1946
  • Ted Lange 1947
  • George "Funky" Brown (Kool and the Gang) 1949
  • Chris Stein (Blondie) 1950
  • Pamela Sue Martin 1953
  • Clancy Brown 1959
  • Suzy Amis 1961
  • Iris Dement 1961
  • Jeff Fassero 1963
  • Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) 1967
  • Joe Juneau 1968
  • Marilyn Manson 1970
  • Kylie Bax 1975
  • January Jones 1978

 

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