Sunday, January 7, 2024

Cimmerian \si-MEER-ee-uhn\, adjective:

1. Very dark; gloomy; deep.
2. Classical Mythology. Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a western people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.

Like gasconade, cimmerian was originally a toponym. It referred to the Cimmerii, an ancient nomadic people who live in Crimea, according to Herodotus.

catch the ones

• You and someone are having beef so you want to fist fight to settle out the differences.

Hey Dom if you have a problem you can catch the ones.

History

• Galilean moons: Jupiter's moons were first observed by Galileo; Simon Marius, however, named them — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, after the lovers of Zeus (1610)
• Fannie Farmer: published her first cookbook (1896)
• Marian Anderson: the contralto became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House (1955)
• Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot's regime was toppled when Vietnam took Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh (1979)
• Bill Clinton: impeachment trial began (1999)

Birthdays

• Joseph Bonaparte (Naples) 1768
• Millard S. Fillmore (U.S.) 1800
• Charles Laemmle 1867
• Adolph Zukor 1873
• Charles Péguy 1873
• Butterfly McQueen 1911
• Charles Addams 1912
• Vincent Gardenia 1922
• Jean-Pierre Rampal 1922
• Gerald Durrell 1925
• William Blatty 1928
• Terry Moore (Helen Koford) 1929
• Jack Greene 1930
• Douglas Kiker 1930
• Eldee Young 1936
• Lou Graham (golfer) 1938
• Danny Williams 1942
• Paul Revere (Paul Revere and The Raiders) 1942
• Leona Williams 1943
• Jan Wenner 1946
• Kenny Loggins 1948
• Marshall Chapman 1949
• Erin Gray 1952 

  
• Morris Titanic (NHL) 1953
• Katie Couric 1957
• David Lee Murphy 1958
• Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's) 1958
  Praga Khan 1959 (Lords of Acid)
• David Marciano 1960
• Craig Shipley 1963
• Nicholas Cage 1964
• Guy Hebert (NHL) 1967
• Doug E. Doug 1970
• Jeremy Renner 1971
• John Rich 1974
• Dustin Diamond 1977
  Lauren Cohan 1982 (The Walking Dead)
  Natalie Gulbis 1983 (Pro-Golfer / Model)
• Rhianna (Robin Hannah Louise Kenny) 1983 - Singer 
• Lindsy Fonseca 1987