Monday, March 27, 2023

Monday, March 27, 2023

equivocate \ih-KWIV-uh-kayt\, intransitive verb:
  • To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite.
To equivocate is literally to call equally one thing or the other: It comes from Medieval Latin aequivocare, from the Latin aequus, equal + vocare, to call (from Latin vox, voice).
 
chelonian \ki-LOH-nee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Belonging or pertaining to the order Chelonia, comprising the turtles.
noun:
1. A turtle.
Chelonian comes from the Greek word for turtle, chelṓn.
 
Defensive Eating
  • Strategically consuming food for the sole purpose of preventing others from getting it.
Mattâs mother-in-law unexpectedly arrived with a delicious dinner immediately after Matt finished a 12-inch sub. In order to prevent his wife from getting the surprise meal, he used defensive eating to consume the additional food.
 
History
  • Telephone: the first long-distance call was made from Boston to New York (1884)
  • Nikita Khrushchev: became prime minister of the Soviet Union (1958)
  • Good Friday Earthquake: North America's most powerful earthquake struck Alaska, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale; it killed over 100 and triggered devastating tsunamis (1964)
  • Tenerife crash: the world's worst aviation disaster took place when two 747 airliners collided on Tenerife, Canary Islands (1977)
  • Viagra: was approved by the FDA for erectile dysfunction (1998)
Birthdays
  • Louis XVII 1785
  • Alfred Vigny 1797
  • Nathaniel Currier 1813
  • William Conrad Rontgen 1845
  • Sir Henry Royce 1863
  • Patty Smith Hill 1868
  • Edward Steichen 1879
  • Thorne Smith 1892
  • Gloria Swanson 1899
  • James Callaghan 1912 - British prime minister
  • Snooky Lanson 1914
  • Richard Denning 1914
  • Robert "Junior" Lockwood 1915 - Blues guitarist
  • Richard Hayman 1920
  • Sarah Vaughan 1924
  • Harold Nicholas 1924
  • Anthony Lewis 1927 - Newspaper columnist
  • Burt Collins 1931
  • David Janssen 1931
  • Arthur Mitchell 1934 - Dance company director
  • Julian Glover 1935 - Actor
  • Jerry Lacy 1936 - Actor
  • Judy Carne 1939
  • Cale Yarborough 1939
  • Austin Pendleton 1940 - Actor
  • Michael York 1942 - Actor
  • Tom Sullivan 1947
  • Tony Banks 1950 - Musician (Genesis)
  • Maria Schneider 1952 - Actress
  • Annemarie Moser-Proell 1953
  • Andrew Farris 1959 - Musician (INXS)
  • Xuxa (Maria da Graça Meneghel) 1963 - Singer, actress
  • Quentin Tarantino 1963 - hack director
  • Derrick McKenzie 1964 - Musician (Jamiroquai)
  • Talisa Soto 1967 - Actress
  • Pauley Perrette 1969 - Actress
  • Mariah Carey 1970 - Singer
  • Elizabeth Mitchell (Elizabeth Joanna Robertson) 1970 - Actress ("Lost", "V")
  • Brendan Hill 1970 - Musician (Blues Travelers)
  • Nathan Fillion 1971 - Actore ("Firefly")
  • Fergie (Stacy Ann Ferguson) 1975 - Singer (Black Eyed Peas)
  • Emily Ann Lloyd 1983 - Actress
  • Brenda Song 1988 - Actress
  • Taylor Atelian 1995 - Actress ("According to Jim")



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