Friday, January 23, 2026

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terminus \TUR-muh-nuhs\, noun: 

1. the end or extremity of anything.
2. either end of a railroad line.
3. British. the station or the town at the end of a railway or bus route.
4. the point toward which anything tends; goal or end.

Terminus comes from the Latin word of the same spelling which meant "boundary, limit, end."

Do I smell popcorn?

• Phrase uttered when you have passed a particularly pungent bubble of gas that you are so proud of you want everyone to take a deep whiff.

We all knew we were in trouble when Amber asked, "Do I smell popcorn?" we just didn't know that it was lethal.

 

History

• Shaanxi Earthquake: deadliest earthquake in recorded history shook central and eastern China, killing more than 800,000 (1556)
  

  
• Election Day: date for national elections was set by US Congress as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November (1845)
• Elizabeth Blackwell: became the first female physician in the US, graduating first in her class from Geneva Medical College (1849)
• Roots: the mini-series based on Alex Haley's epic novel began on ABC (1977)
• Daniel Pearl: reporter for The Wall Street Journal was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan; he was killed less than a month later (2002)

Birthdays

• John Hancock 1737
• Edouard Manet 1832
• Joseph Nathan Kane 1899
• Randolph Scott 1903
• Dan Duryea 1907
• David Duncan 1916
• Ernie Kovacs 1919
• Ray Abrams 1920
• Marty Paich 1925
• Jeanne Moreau 1928
• Ken Errair (The Four Freshmen) 1928
• Chita Rivera 1933
• Lou Antonio 1934
• Eugene Church 1938
• Johnny Russel 1940
• Gil Gerard 1943
• Rutger Hauer 1944
• Jerry Lawson (The Persuasions) 1944
• Anita Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1948
• Richard Dean Anderson (MacGuyver) 1950
• Bill Cunningham (The Box Tops) 1950
• Danny Federici (E Street Band) 1950
  David Patrick Kelly 1951 (The Crow, The Warriors)
  
• Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) 1953
• Princess Caroline of Monaco 1957
• Anita Baker 1958
• Earl Falconer (UB40) 1959
• Gail O'Grady 1963
• Mariska Hargitay 1964
• Marc Nelson 1971
• Tiffany-Amber Thiessen 1974
  Tito Ortiz (MMA) 1975