Sunday, August 07, 2022

Sunday, August 7, 2022

mojo \MOH-joh\, noun:
1. Personal magnetism; charm.
2. The art or practice of casting magic spells; magic; voodoo.
3. An object, as an amulet or charm, that is believed to carry a magic spell.
4. Good luck or favor concerning an event or individual.
Mojo comes from moco, "witchcraft," a word in the Gullah dialect. The Gullah are African-Americans who now live in parts of South Carolina and Florida and preserved a greater amount of their African heritage. They speak a creole that uniquely incorporates a great deal of African grammar and loanwords.
 
mantor
  • A man to whom you as a man aspire towards. The Ideal man.
Tom Selleck is my mantor.
 
History
  • Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
  • Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
  • Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
  • Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the to the Soviet Union (1987)
  • Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
  • US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)
Birthdays
  • Nathaniel Greene 1742
  • Mata Hari 1876
  • Billie Burke 1884
  • Rudolf Bunche 1904
  • Warren Covington 1921
  • Felice Bryant 1925
  • Stan Freberg 1926
  • "The Amazing" James Randi 1928
  • Magic Slim 1937
  • Ron Holden 1939
  • Verna Bloom 1939
  • B.J. Thomas 1942
  • Garrison Keillor 1942
  • Lana Cantrell 1943
  • John Glover 1944
  • David Rasche 1944
  • Rodney Crowell 1950
  • Andy Fraser (Free) 1952
  • Caroline Aaron 1952
  • Wayne Knight 1955
  • Alberto Salazar 1958
  • Bruce Dickinson 1958 (Iron Maiden)
  • David Duchovny 1960 (X-Files)
  • DeLane Matthews 1961
  • Marcus Roberts 1963
  • Harold Perrineau 1963 - Actor ("Lost") 
  • Raul Malo (The Mavericks) 1965
  • Charlotte Lewis 1967
  • Sydney Penny 1971
  • Charlize Theron 1975 (Aeon Flux)
  • Sydney Crosby 1987
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Close encounters: the return of The X-Files | Sight & Sound | BFI
 
 
 
 
 

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