Saturday, November 7, 2026

 

lycanthrope, \LAHY-kuhn-throhp, lahy-KAN-throhp\, noun, 

1. a werewolf or alien spirit in the physical form of a bloodthirsty wolf. 
2. a person affected with lycanthropy. 

Origin: Lycanthrope comes from the Greek word lykánthrōpos meaning "wolf-man."

 

loup-garou \loo-ga-ROO\, noun:

• A werewolf; lycanthrope.

Loup-garou stems from the French word of the same spelling which also means werewolf. The word loup also means "wolf" in French. It entered English in the late 1500s.

 

pandurate \ PAN-duh-reyt, -der-it, -dyuh-reyt, -dyer-it \ , adjective; 

• shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf. 

Origin: Pandurate comes from the Latin pandūra , a three-stringed musical instrument popular in ancient times. 

brofie

• A selfie you take with your bros

Did you see the bromance in your boyfriend's brofie?

 

History

• Canadian Pacific Railway: transcontinental system was completed, linking Montreal with Port Moody, British Columbia (1885)
• Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin's forces overthrew Kerensky's government (1917)
• Blue law: overturned in Pennsylvania, permitting sports on Sunday (1933)
• Galloping Gertie: suspension bridge over the Tacoma Narrows collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter, killing a cocker spaniel and becoming a textbook engineering disaster case (1940)
• Richard Nixon: quit politics, saying "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" (1962); he was elected US President on the same date (1972)
• African-American civil rights movement: Carl B. Stokes became the first black mayor of a major US city, Cleveland (1967); Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor of a US state, Virginia (1989)

  
• Magic Johnson: LA Lakers basketball star announced he had AIDS and was retiring (1991)

Birthdays

• Madame Curie 1867
• Ed Dodd 1902
• Dean Jagger 1903
• Albert Camus 1913
• Billy Graham 1918
• Al Hirt 1922
• Dame Joan Sutherland 1926
• Barry Newman 1938
• Dee (Delectus) Clark 1938
• Johnny Rivers 1942
• Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) 1943
• Joe Niekro 1944
  
  
• Nick Gilder 1951
• Christopher Knight 1957
• Christopher Pallies (King Kong Bundy) 1957
• Keith Lockhart 1959
• Todd McKee 1963
• Dana Plato 1964
• Cathleen Raymond (aka Gabrielle Scream, Kathleen, Noelle) 1971 t3h pr0n
• Robin Rinck (NIN) 1971
• Jason London 1972
• Jeremy London 1972
• Kim Yun-jin (Yunjin Kim) 1973 - Actress ("Lost")