Tuesday, August 2, 2011
entelechy \en-TEL-uh-kee\, noun:
- A realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
- In vitalist philosophy, a vital agent or force directing growth and life.
Entelechy is built from the Greek roots telos "goal" andech "to have."
shark porn
- chilling cinematic moments when hungry sharks chomp on underwater aluminum cages, filled with divers, during TV news stories and so-called documentaries
I saw a show where a thirteen foot great white shark tried to eat some cage divers near Guadalupe Island. It's nothing more than 'shark porn'.
Trivia
In Great Britain, where a duke’s wife is known as a duchess, what is the title of an earl’s wife? How about a marquis’s wife?
- An earl’s wife is a countess; a marquis’s wife, a marchioness.
History
Declaration of Independence
: members of the Continental Congress began putting their John Hancocks on "The Unanimous Declaration of the 13 United States of America" (1776)
- Marihuana Tax Act: US law doused marijuana use, sale and possession with sheer legal intricacy (1937)
- PT-109: a torpedo boat pathetically commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy was sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer (1943)
- Gulf of Tonkin: the Pentagon reported attacks on US ships by North Vietnamese; the incident led to a Congressional resolution and expansion of the war effort (1964)
- Kuwait: was invaded by Iraq, triggering the Gulf War five months later (1990)
Birthdays
Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825): architect/city planner who designed Washington, DC- Wes Craven (72): director, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream; director Kevin Smith (41) was also born on this date
- Isabel Allende (69): novelist, The House of the Spirits; novelists Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) and James Baldwin (1924-1987) shared this birth date
- Mary-Louise Parker (47): Weeds' Nancy Botwin; also, actors Peter O'Toole (79), Max Wright (68), Joanna Cassidy (66), Kathryn Harrold (61), Butch Patrick (58), Victoria Jackson (52), Cynthia Stevenson (49), Sam Worthington (35), Edward Furlong (34) and Hallie Kate Eisenberg (19)
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