Wednesday, November 23, 2022

mithridate \MITH-ri-deyt\, noun:

• A confection believed to contain an antidote to every poison.

Mithridate originates from the name of Mithridates VI, a legendary king who had an immunity to poisons

 

Adverblasting

• When a commercials audio is much louder than the program that you actually want to watch's audio.

Man, I was watching NCIS, and then I had to turn down my TV when the commercials came on because of damn adverblasting.

History 

• Battle of Chattanooga: huge battle at a railway junction began during the US Civil War, ending with a Union victory (1863)

  
• jukebox: the first coin-operated phonograph was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco (1889)
• Doctor Who: British sci-fi TV program about a doctor who time-travels in a TARDIS debuted; it is still running (1963)
• China: the People's Republic took over Taiwan's seat in the UN Security Council (1971)

Birthdays

• Franklin Pierce (U.S.) 1804
• William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) 1859
• Boris Karloff 1887
• Harpo Marx 1888
• Maurice Zolotow 1913
  
• Ellen Drew 1915
• Michael Gough 1917
• Jerry Bock 1928
• Betty Everett 1939
• Susan Anspach 1945
• Steve Landesberg 1945
• David Rappaport 1951
• Cyb and Patricia Barnstable 1951
  
• Boris Gebenchikov 1953
• Bruce Hornsby 1954
• John Henton 1960
• Maxwell Caulfield 1961
• Charlie Grover (Sponge) 1966
• Ken Block (Sister Hazel) 1966
• Kurupt (The Dogg Pound) 1972
• Kelly Brook 1980
• Destiny Hope "Miley Ray" Cyrus 1992