phthisis \THAHY-sis\, noun:
1. A wasting away.Phthisis comes from the Greek root phthí which meant "to decay."
2. Pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.
ego waffles
- waffles made out of ego which are consumed by narcissistic people in order to sustain a delicate ego
Trivia
Anatomy-wise, what is the meaning of the slang term cankle?
- Fat ankle. A combination of the words calf and ankle, it is used when a person’s calf and ankle appear to be the same thickness.
History
- Atahualpa: last sovereign Incan emperor was garroted by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro, who thus defeated the Incan Empire and conquered Peru (1533)
- Shay's Rebellion: uprising began in Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays; farmers were protesting crushing debt and taxes (1786)
- Treaty of Nanking: marked the end of the First Opium War and the ceding of Hong Kong Island to Britain (1842)
- The Beatles: gave their last paid concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, now Monster Park (1966)
- Hurricane Katrina: the costliest natural disaster in US history made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, devastating cities, most notably New Orleans (2005)
Birthdays
- John Locke 1632
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809
- Preston Sturges 1898
- Barry Sullivan 1912
- Ingrid Bergman 1915
- George Montgomery 1916
- Isabel Sanford 1917
- Charles White 1920
- Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920
- Wendell Scott 1921
- Sir Richard Attenborough 1923
- Dinah Washington 1924
- Dick O'Neill 1928
- John McCain 1936 (RINO)
- Elliott Gould 1938
- William Friedkin 1939
- Ellen Geer 1941
- Robin Leach 1941
- Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground) 1942
- Deborah Van Valkenburgh 1952
- Mark Morris 1956
- Dan Truman (Diamond Rio) 1956
- Michael Joseph Jackson 1958
- Rebecca DeMornay1962
- Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) 1963
- Me'Shell NdegeOcello 1969
- Carl Martin (Shai) 1970
- Carla Gugino 1971
- A+ 1982
- Lea Michele 1986
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