vesuvian \vuh-SOO-vee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Volcanic; of, pertaining to, or resembling Mount Vesuvius.
noun:
1. A type of match formerly used for lighting cigars; fusee.
Vesuvian derives from the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed the town of Pompeii.
Text out
- To weasel out of a prior engagement by text message. Not to be confused with text message breakup.
Man, I can't bear the thought of going to dinner with Jane again, so I think I am going to text out.
History
- Battle of Lepanto: victory of Christians over Ottoman Empire (1571)
- Cats: long-running musical based on T.S. Eliot's poems opened on Broadway (1982)
- Achille Lauro: Italian ship was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists; Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound passenger, was killed the next day (1985)
- gubernatorial recall: California governor Gray Davis was replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the state's first gubernatorial recall election (2003)
Birthdays
- James Whitcomb Riley 1853
- Niels Bohr 1885
- Henry Wallace 1888
- Andy Devine 1905
- Vaughn Monroe 1911
- Jo (Jonathan) Jones 1911
- Alfred Drake 1914
- June Allyson 1917
- Martha Stewart (Haworth) 1922
- Al Martino 1927
- R.D. Laing 1927
- Diana Lynn 1927
- Desmond Tutu (South Africa) 1931
- Imamu Amiri Baraka 1934
- Thomas Keneally 1935
- Charles Dutoit 1936
- Gary Bergman 1938
- Martin Murray (Honeycombs) 1941
- Oliver North 1943
- Kevin Godley (10cc, Godley & Creme) 1945
- David Hope (Kansas) 1949
- Kiernan Kane (The O'Kanes) 1949
- John Cougar Mellencamp 1951
- Jacques Richard 1952
- Vladimir Putin 1952 - Russian dictator
- Christopher Norris 1953
- Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) 1953
- Yo-Yo Ma 1955
- Michael W. Smith 1957
- Judy Landers 1958
- Simon Cowell 1959 - Judge on "American Idol"
- Dale Watson 1962
- Toni Braxton 1968
- Thom York (Radiohead) 1968
- Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy) 1969
- Nicole Air Parker 1970
- Charles Woodson 1976
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