quean \kween\, noun:
1. An overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.2. A prostitute.3. British Dialect. A girl or young woman, especially a robust one
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Quean, predictably, is rooted in the same Old English word that queen comes from, the word cwen which meant woman.
Mechanic's Arm
- A mechanic's arm is what happens when you wank too much; one arm becomes more muscular than the other. Someone who lies on their back all day tightening nuts.
John: "Jaidon, you've probably got mechanic's arm from her Facebook photos".
Jaidon: "Ha ha, very funny."
Holiday
- Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure.
History
- Susan B. Anthony: the suffragist attempted to vote in the 1872 presidential election although women were not allowed to; she was fined $100 but refused to pay (1872)
- FDR: beat Wendell Wilkie to win an unprecedented third term as US president (1940)
- Ella Grasso: Connecticut woman became the first female to be elected governor of a US state without succeeding her husband (1974); Shirley Chisolm, the first black woman representative, was elected to Congress (1968)
- Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity (2006)
- Eugene Victor Debs 1855
- Will Durant 1885
- Alfred Neale 1891
- Raymond Loewy 1893
- Joel McCrea 1905
- Natalie Schafer 1912
- Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1912
- Vivien Leigh 1913
- John McGiver 1913
- Myron Floren 1918
- Ike Turner 1931
- Billy Sherrill 1936
- Chris Robinson 1938
- Elke Sommer 1940
- Art Garfunkel 1941
- Sam Shepard 1943
- Gram Parsons (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers) 1946
- Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits) 1947
- Armin Shimermin 1949
- Bill Walton 1952
- Jon-Erik Hexum 1958
- Robert Patrick 1958
- Bryan Adams 1959
- Tatum O'Neal 1963
- Andrea McArdle 1963
- Famke Janssen 1964
- Angelo Moore (Fishbone) 1965
- Mark Hunter (James) 1968
- Corin Nemec 1971
- Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) 1971
- Ryan Adams (Whiskeytown) 1974
- Heather Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
- Jennifer Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
- Jeremy Lelliott 1982
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