FRIDAY THE 13TH!
triskaidekaphobia \ tris-kahy-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, tris-kuh- \ , noun;
- fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
flaxen \FLAK-suhn\, adjective:
1. Of the pale yellowish color of dressed flax or linen.2. Resembling flax.3. Pertaining to flax.4. Made of flax.
Flaxen, related to flax, is probably from Proto-Germanic base fleh-, meaning "to weave, plait."
Diarrhea of the Mouse
- Uncontrollable rambling via internet - email, blog, instant message, etc. Spin-off of the original phrase "diarrhea of the mouth."
The compulsive blogger, t3h Bax0jayz, suffered a severe case of diarrhea of the mouse.
Holiday
- Friday the 13th: No one really knows the origin of the superstition about Friday the 13th, although in Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, he suggested that it started with the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.
History
- universal time: the meridian of longitude of Greenwich, England, was established as the basis of calculating the world's time (1884)
- World Series: Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first baseball championship games (1903)
- Miracle of the Sun: according to reports, tens of thousands of people saw the sun cast colored lights and spin toward the earth near Fátima, Portugal (1917)
- Italy: switched sides in WWII and declared war on Nazi Germany (1943)
- Hosni Mubarak: the Egyptian vice president was elected president, one week after Anwar Sadat's assassination (1981); he was Egypt's longest-serving president
Birthdays
- Mary Ludwig 1754
- Rudolf Virchow 1821
- Wilbur Shaw 1902
- Herblock (Herbert Block) 1909
- Cornel Wilde 1915
- Burr Tillstrom 1917
- Laraine Day 1920
- Yves Montand 1921
- Lou Saban (NFL) 1921
- Nipsey Russell 1924
- Lenny Bruce 1925
- Frank D. Gilroy 1925
- Margaret Thatcher (Britain) 1925
- Eddie Yost (MLB) 1926
- Shirley Caesar 1928
- Eddie Mathews (MLB) 1931
- Cliff Gorman 1936
- Melinda Dillon 1939
- Paul Simon 1941
- Pamela Tiffin 1942
- Jerry Jones 1943
- Robert Lamm (The Big Thing, Chicago) 1944
- Karen Akers 1945
- Demond Wilson 1946
- Lacy J. Dalton 1946
- Sammy Hagar 1947
- John Lone 1952
- Beverly Johnson 1952
- Marie Osmond 1959
- John Wiggins 1962
- Jerry Rice (NFL) 1962
- Kelly Preston 1962
- T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymah 1962
- Kate Walsh 1967
- Rhett Akins 1969
- Nancy Kerrigan 1969
- Tisha Campbell 1970
- Sacha Baron Cohen 1971
- Jan Van Sichem Jr. (K's Choice) 1972
- Katia Winter 1983
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1989
- Tiffany Trump 1993
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