counterblast \koun-ter-blast\, noun:
- An unrestrained and vigorously powerful response to an attacking statement.
Counterblast, predictably, comes from the roots "counter" and "blast." It came into common English usage in the 1560s. The prefix counter- originates in the Latin word contrā which meant "against, to return." Blast, on the other hand, originates in Old English, from the word blǽst, which meant "to blow."
Reminder Storm
- When everyone sitting around you in an office has the same appointment and you hear everyoneâs cell phone reminder for that appointment go off at the approximately the same time.
I was walking by finance when a reminder storm hit.
History
- Granada: last Moorish stronghold in Spain, led by Muhammad XI, surrendered to Roman Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I (1492)
- Vulcan: the "discovery" of a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury was announced by French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier; it proved to be nonexistent (1860)
- Russo-Japanese War: ended with Russian General Stoessel's letter of surrender to Japan's General Nogi (1905)
- 55 mph limit: Congress and President Richard Nixon set a national speed limit to conserve gasoline following the 1973 oil crisis (1974)
Soleimani: Iranian terror general of Hezbollah was killed with some of his evil cohorts at a Baghdad Airport by way of drone attack ordered by President Donal Trump.
Birthdays
- Nathaniel Bacon 1647
- Philip Freneau 1752
- Martha Thomas 1857
- Sally Rand 1904
- James Melton 1904
- Sir Michael Tippett 1905
- Vera Zorina (Eva Hartwig) 1917
- Isaac Asimov 1920
- Renata Tebaldi 1922
- Anna Lee 1923
- Jason Evers 1927
- Gino Marchetti 1927
- Julius LaRosa 1930
- Roger Miller 1936
- Jim Bakker 1939
- Donald B. Keck 1941
- Christopher Durang 1949
- Chick Churchill (Ten Years After) 1949
- Wendy Phillips 1952
- Joanna Pacula 1957
- Gabrielle Carteris 1961
- Todd Haynes 1961
- Tia Carrere 1967
- Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968
- Christy Turlington 1969
- Taye Diggs 1971
- Paz Vega 1976
- Kate Bosworth 1983
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