Saturday August 31, 2024

lodestar \LOHD-stahr\, noun:

1. Something that serves as a guide or on which the attention is fixed.

2. A star that shows the way.

3. Polaris.

Lodestar comes from the Old English word lode which meant "way, course." The word has been used in navigation since the 1400s.

 

it's your birthday 

• A term of encouragement often used to drunkenly encourage equally intoxicated acquaintances. Rarely used on the subject of encouragement's actual birthdate. Commonly preceeded by "Go (name)" and occasionally followed by, "no it's not, go anyway" when spoken by those in the 8-13 year old age bracket (who are hopefully not drunk).

"Look, Susan's about to dance on the bar!"

"Go Susan, it's your birthday!"

 

Holiday

• International Bacon Day or Bacon Day is an unofficial observance held on the Saturday before Labor Day in the United States. (Labor Day is traditionally the first Monday of September). Bacon day celebrations typically include social gatherings during which participants create and consume dishes containing bacon, including bacon-themed breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts, and drinks 

 

 

History

• Malaya: became independent of the United Kingdom (1957); a few years later this federation of states became Malaysia
• Trinidad and Tobago: island nation of the southern Caribbean, birthplace of limbo, became independent of the United Kingdom (1962)
• Jack the Ripper: first victim was found with her throat cut in London's East End (1888)
• Princess Diana: was killed in a car crash along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and her driver as they attempted to evade paparazzi (1997)
• Baghdad bridge stampede: 1,000 pilgrims were killed when panic over a supposed suicide bomber caused a crush of people on the Al-Aaimmah bridge over the Tigris River (2005)

Birthdays

• Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012
• Maria Montessori 1870
• Wilhelmina (Netherlands) 1880
• Frederic March 1897
• Arthur Godfrey 1903
• William Saroyan 1908
• Sir Benrard Lovell 1914
• Daniel Schorr 1916
• Alan Jay Lerner 1918
• Richard Basehart 1919
• G.D. Spradlin 1920
• Buddy Hackett 1924
• James Coburn 1928
• Frank Robinson 1935
• Eldridge Cleaver 1935
• Warren Berlinger 1937
• Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) 1939
• Jack Thompson 1940
• Roger Dean 1944 - Artist
• Itzhak Perlman 1945
• Van Morrison (Them) 1945
• Richard Gere 1949
• Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions) 1952
• Anthony Thistlewaite (The Waterboys) 1955
• Gina Shock (The Go-Go's) 1957
• Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze) 1957
• Edwin Moses 1958
• Chris Whitley 1960
• Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1960
• Larry Waddell (Mint Condition) 1963
• Jeff Russo (Tonic) 1969
• Debbie Gibson 1970
• Tamara (Trina & Tamara) 1977
• Yara Martinez (Ms Lint from The Tick) 1979