Wednesday, November 8, 2023

atempora [ey-tem-per-uh l, ey-tem-pruh l] adjective

• free from limitations of time.

ORIGIN: The first syllable of the English adjective atemporal “not subject to time, timeless” is formed from an, a-, the Greek prefix of negation, absence, or privation (called in the grammar books the “alpha privative”). The Greek forms derive from a reduced form of Proto-Indo-European ne “not,” the same source as Sanskrit an-, a- (the identity of the Greek and Sanskrit forms is one of the features linking Greek and Sanskrit), the Germanic (English) prefix un- and Latin in- (and its assimilated forms il-, im-, ir-). Atemporal entered English in the 19th century.

posse

• your crew, your hommies, a group of friends, people who may or may not have your back

me an' my posse gonna hang tonite

History

• Louvre: the former royal French palace opened as a museum; it is now the most-visited art museum in the world (1793)
• x-rays: were discovered by William Röntgen; he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics for this achievement (1895)
• Three Gorges Dam: the Yangtze, China's largest river, was diverted in a massive ongoing construction project (1997)

Birthdays

• Bram Stoker 1847
  
• Margaret Mitchell 1900
• Norman Lloyd 1914
• June Havoc 1916
• Gene Saks 1921
• Dr. Christian Barnard 1922
• Jack S. Kilby 1923
• Joe Flynn 1924
• Patti Page 1927
• Chris Connor 1927
• Morley Safer 1931
• Esther Rolle 1933
• Alain Delon 1935
• Bonnie Bramlett (Delanry & Bonnie) 1944
• Roy Wood (ELO, Wizzard) 1946
• Minne Riperton 1948
• Bonnie Raitt 1949
• Mary Hart 1951
• Christie Hefner 1952
• Alfre Woodard 1953
  
• Rickie Lee Jones 1954
• Porl Thompson (Cure) 1958
• Leif Garrett 1961
• Parker Posey 1968
• Courtney Thorne-Smith 1968
• Roxana Zal 1969
• Jimmy Chaney (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1969
• Diana King 1970
• Tara Reid 1975
• Azura Skye 1980