Tuesday, December 13, 2022

prosopography \pros-uh-POG-ruh-fee\, noun:

1. A description of a person's appearance, career, personality, etc.

2. A study of a collection of persons or characters, esp. their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.

Prosopography ultimately originates in the combination of the Greek roots prosopon, "face, or person," and graphia, "writing of."

 

emberrorist

• a radical who employs the potential to embarass others as a political weapon. Contrary to terrorist who uses fear.

Wikileaks and those involved with leaking inconsequential but potentially embarrassing communications are political emberrorists.

 

History

• Francis Drake: British explorer set out on a three-year circumnavigation of the globe, looting Spanish ships as he sailed (1577)

  
• New Zealand: was sighted for the first time by a European, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman (1642)
• Susan B. Anthony dollar: the US Mint began stamping out the first US coin to honor a woman, suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1978)
• United States presidential election of 2000: Democratic candidate Al Gore conceded the race to President Bush 36 days after Election Day
• Saddam Hussein: Iraqi dictator was captured hiding in a spider hole near Tikrit (2003)

Birthdays

• Dick Van Dyke 1925
• Christopher Plummer 1929

• Buck White 1930
• Robert Prosky 1930
• Richard Zanuck 1934
• John Davidson 1941
• Ted Nugent 1948
• Ron Getman (The Tractors) 1948
• Jeff Baxter (The Doobie Brothers) 1948
• Randy Owen (Alabama) 1949
• Tom Veralain (Television) 1949
• Wendy Malick 1950
• Robert Lindsay 1951
• Steve Forbert 1954
• John Anderson 1954
• Steve Buscemi 1957
• Marianne Gravatte 1959: Playboy Playmate of the Year 1983
• John Whitaker 1959
• Dana Strum (Slaughter) 1959
• Deborah Driggs 1963: Playboy Playmate of the Month March 1990
• Jamie Foxx 1967
• Amy Lee 1981: Singer
• Chelsea Hertford 1981
• Taylor Swift 1989