Friday, November 15, 2024

cahoots \kuh-HOOT\, noun:

• In partnership; in league.

Cahoots enters English in the United States in the 1800s, possibly derived from the French cahute, "cabin, hut," but others trace it to the roots of the English word cohort.

 
typerventilating

• sending messages through instant messaging in a rapidly sequential intervals.

I could barely follow the conversation; she was typerventilating like a madwoman!

 
Trivia

What passenger airline was the first to put a jet into regular passenger service?

• Aeroflot, the Russian airline, in 1956.

History

• Pikes Peak: explorer Zebulon Pike first spotted the 14,000-foot (4,267 m.) Colorado mountain that eventually bore his name (1806)
• March to the Sea: Union commander Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began his attack "into the very bowels of the Confederacy" during the American Civil War (1864)
• Brazil: became a republic when its emperor, Pedro II, was deposed (1889)
• Wendy's: the first branch of the fast food chain was opened by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio (1969)
• Moratorium to end the war in Vietnam: up to an estimated half-million protesters marched peacefully on Washington, DC (1969)

Birthdays

• William Pitt the Elder 1708 - Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Gerhart Hauptmann 1862
• Georgia O'Keeffe 1887
• Joseph Wapner 1919
• Ed Asner 1929
• Whitman Mayo 1930
• Petula Clark 1932
• Jack Burns 1933
• Joanna Barnes 1934
• Barry McGuire 1937
• Sam Waterston 1940
• Daniel Barenboim 1942 - Israeli pianist and conductor
• Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945
• Mitch Easter 1954
• Beverly D'Angelo 1954
• Kevin Eubanks 1957
• E-40 1967
• ODB (Wu Tang Clan) 1968
• Jack Ingram 1970
• Chad Robert Kroeger 1974 - Singer/Guitarist (Nickelback)