Porn and Movie

• To purge or purify.

• A tingling or numbness or a sharp, piercing pain shooting through the wrist as a direct result of engaging in pleasuring one's self while watching excessive porn.

• Hamilton was on the $5 bill: Lincoln on the $10 bill—the reverse of today’s $5 and $10 bills.

• Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)


• Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851)


• Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)


• IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)


• Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)


• Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)

• Linda O'Neil (38): actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.


• George IV (1762-1830): king of Great Britain


• Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929): poet who wrote "America the Beautiful"; plus, writers Robert Southey (1774-1843), Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954), Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) and Ann M. Martin (56)


• Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959): director of blockbusters like The Ten Commandments; plus, director John Derek (1926-1998)


• Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961): theoretical physicist, Schrödinger's equation


• Mark Knopfler (62): composer, guitarist, rock singer; also, jazzman Pat Metheny (57)


• Peter Krause (46): Nate Fisher in Six Feet Under and Adam Braverman in Parenthood; also, actors Cantinflas (1911-1993), George Hamilton (72), Bruce Greenwood (55), Michael Ian Black (40), Rebecca Gayheart (39), Casey Affleck (36), and Maggie Lawson and Dominique Swain (both 30)


• Pete Sampras (40): tennis champ; also baseball hall-of-famer Christy Mathewson (1880-1925)

• A wooded, uninhabited area.

• The 5% of a man's whiz missing the toilet, sprinkling over the toilet seat.

• Spain and Iceland, respectively.

• Ferdinand Magellan: set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe; of the five ships that set out under his command, only one — the Victoria — returned to Spain (1519)


• Smithsonian Institution: was created with $500,000 left by English scientist James Smithson (1846)


• Son of Sam: New York serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested (1977)


• Yuri Malenchenko: Ukrainian cosmonaut became the first person to be married in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas (2003)

• Herbert Hoover (1874-1964): 31st POTUS, believed in private enterprise


• Jorge Amado (1912-2001): novelist, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands; plus, writer Alfred Döblin (1878-1957)


• Ian Anderson (64): musician, Jethro Tull; also, singers Jimmy Dean (1928-2010), Eddie Fisher (83), Ronnie Spector (68), Patti Austin (61), Jon Farriss (50) and Aaron Hall (47)


• Antonio Banderas (51): actor/voice actor, The Mask of Zorro, Puss in Boots in the Shrek sequels; also, actors Rhonda Fleming (88), Kate O'Mara (72), James Reynolds (65), Daniel Hugh Kelly (59), Rosanna Arquette (52), Justin Theroux (40), Angie Harmon (39) and Ryan Eggold (27)


• Phoolan Devi (1963-2001): gang leader who became a member of India's Parliament

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1. Unfading; everlasting.

2. Of or like the amaranth flower.

3. Of purplish-red color.

• Subtly letting others now about how fantastic your life is while undercutting it with a bit of self-effacing humor or "woe is me" gloss.

• Corellia.

• Tower of Pisa: construction on the campanile began; it would take 200 years to complete, and the uneven settling of the foundation would cause it to lean (1173)


• Sistine Chapel: the private chapel of the popes was consecrated and its first mass was celebrated (1483)


• Webster-Ashburton Treaty: established much of the border between the US and Canada (1842)


• 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympiad (1936)


• Nagasaki: atom bomb called the Fat Man, dropped by the Bockscar, devastated a second Japanese city (1945)


• Singapore: seceded from and became independent of Malaysia (1965)


• Richard M. Nixon: officially left office as America's 37th president and the first one to resign; vice president Gerald Ford became president (1974)

• Jean Piaget (1896-1980): specialist in developmental psychology


• P.L. Travers (1899-1996): author, Mary Poppins; plus, writers Izaak Walton (1593-1683), John Dryden (1631 [O.S.]-1700), Gaston Paris (1839-1903) and Philip Larkin (1922-1985)


• Rod Laver (73): tennis great; athletes Ralph Houk (92), Bob Cousy (83), Ken Norton (68), Brett Hull (47), Deion Sanders (44) and Chamique Holdsclaw (34) were also born on this date


• Eric Bana (43): time-traveler Henry DeTamble in The Time Traveler's Wife; also, actors Robert Shaw (1927-1978), David Steinberg (69), Sam Elliott (67), Melanie Griffith (54), Amanda Bearse (53), Whitney Houston (48), Gillian Anderson (43), Jessica Capshaw (35) and Audrey Tatou (33)

• A vein, as of a leaf or the wing of an insect.

• When you buy a bag of chips thinking that it will be full of chips but when you open the bag it's barely full.

• Three—each with a different husband. The first was a son, Wade; the second, a daughter, Ella; the third, a daughter, Bonnie. The first two children were eliminated from the 1939 movie.

• Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
• Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
• Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
• Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
• Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the Soviet Union (1987)
• Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
• US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)

• Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-1594): soldier and poet, La Araucana
• Mata Hari (1876-1917): dancer/spy
• Louis Leakey (1903-1972): paleoanthropologist
• B.J. Thomas (69): country/pop singer, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; also, musicians Bruce Dickinson (53) and Marcus Roberts (48)
• Garrison Keillor (69): writer/host of A Prairie Home Companion
• David Duchovny (51): actor, The X-Files, Californication; also, performers Stan Freberg (85), Wayne Knight (56), Harold Perrineau (48) and Charlize Theron (36)
• Jimmy Wales (45): founder of Wikipedia
• Sidney Crosby (24): center for Pittsburgh Penguins; runners Abebe Bikila (1932-1973) and Alberto Salazar (53) share this birth date

1. Vigor; verve; pep.

2. Courage and aggressiveness.

3. Skill; know-how.

• When a woman officially declares a man to be in her 'friend zone'.

• The naval semaphore signals for “N” and “D”—shorthand for nuclear disarmament.

• Holy Roman Empire: came to an end with the abdication of Francis II (1806)
• Bolivia: declared independence from Spain (1825)
• electric chair: was first used as method of execution, on murderer William Kemmler at New York's Auburn Prison (1890)
• Gertrude Ederle: became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1926)
• Enola Gay: US bomber dropped an atomic weapon on Hiroshima, killing over 60,000 instantly; it was the first-ever use of nuclear warfare (1945)
• Voting Rights Act: was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson; it prohibited states from imposing racial discrimination at the polls based on literacy or financial ability (1965)
• Gerry Adams: the Sinn Féin president and British PM Tony Blair meet; it's the first time in 76 years that a British leader met with an IRA ally (1997)

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): Victorian age poet, "The Lady of Shalott"
• Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955): bacteriologist who discovered penicillin
• Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970): Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
• Andy Warhol (1928-1987): pop artist who had his "fifteen minutes of fame"
• Jeremy Ratchford (46): actor, Cold Case; also, actors Lucille Ball (1911-1989), Robert Mitchum (1917-1997), Peter Bonerz (73), Dorian Harewood (61), Catherine Hicks (60), Michelle Yeoh (49), Merrin Dungey (40), David Campbell (38), Vera Farmiga and Ever Carradine (both 37), Soleil Moon Frye (35), and Stepfanie Kramer (54)
• Geri Halliwell (39): the former Ginger Spice; musicians Charlie Haden (74), Pat MacDonald (59) and Patsy and Peggy Lynn (both 46) were also born on this date

• To pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.

• When the cooking time of food needs to be adjusted to account for a weaker or stronger microwave.

• “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

• federal income tax: was levied for the first time in the US; it aimed to help pay the bills for the Civil War and was rescinded in 1872 (1861)
• "Damn the torpedoes": famous order was given by Union Admiral David G. Farragut as he led his fleet at Mobile Bay during the Civil War (1864)
• Little Orphan Annie: Harold Gray's comic strip debuted (1924)
• Nelson Mandela: South African resistance leader and later president was arrested and jailed; his imprisonment lasted till 1990 (1962)
• Marilyn Monroe: was found dead after overdosing on sleeping pills (1962)
• Test Ban Treaty: the US, Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to prohibit nuclear weapon tests underwater, in the atmosphere and in outer space (1963)

• Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893): author of novels and short stories, "The Necklace"
• Harold Holt (1908-1967): Australian PM
• Neil Armstrong (81): first human to walk on the moon
• Erika Slezak (65): Victoria Lord on One Life to Live; other actors born on this date include Zakes Mokae (1934-2009), John Saxon (75), Loni Anderson (65), Holly Palance (61), Maureen McCormick (55) and Jonathan Silverman (45)
• Patrick Ewing (49): former NY Knicks basketball star
• Adam "MCA" Yauch (47): filmmaker who began as a rapper with the Beastie Boys

1. A realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
2. In vitalist philosophy, a vital agent or force directing growth and life.

• chilling cinematic moments when hungry sharks chomp on underwater aluminum cages, filled with divers, during TV news stories and so-called documentaries

• An earl’s wife is a countess; a marquis’s wife, a marchioness.

• 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)

• 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)

 

• Characterized by the singing of several notes to one syllable of text, for emotional impact, as in blues and other musical styles.

• When you try not to be rude texting while you are out with friends so you hide it by texting with the phone still in your bag. This is an attempt to trick people that you are with into not thinking you are rude when in fact it is so obvious when you are standing there with your bag open and your whole hand is in the bag, holding your phone, texting.

• Chico’s Bail Bonds.

• Slavery Abolition Act 1833: abolished slavery in Britain and Ireland
• WWI: erupted as Germany declared war on Russia (1914)
• Fulbright: scholarship program was signed into US law (1946)
• MTV: cable music station was launched with, aptly, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)

• Claudius (10 BCE-54 CE): 4th Roman emperor
• Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829): the naturalist credited with first use of the word "biology"
• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843): attorney who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Herman Melville (1819-1891): author of Moby Dick; plus, writer Anne Hébert (1916-2000)
• Dom DeLuise (1933-2009): actor and cookbook writer; actors Giancarlo Giannini (69) and John Carroll Lynch (48) share this birth date
• Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008): fashion designer, popularized pants for women
• Robert Cray (58): blues guitarist and singer; musicians Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), Michael Penn (53), Joe Elliot (52), Chuck D (51), Coolio (48) and Adam Duritz (47) also celebrate birthdays today

• To cheat (a house buyer) by raising the price, at the time a contract is to be signed, over the amount originally agreed upon.

• a person who never misses a chance to post a "R.I.P. insert name" status update in Facebook as soon as any celebrity dies.

• A person who voices opinions beyond his or her scope of knowledge.

• Baltimore: port town and industrial center was founded (1729)
• "La Marseillaise": the French national anthem was first sung in Paris (1792)
• In God We Trust: became the official motto of the US (1956)
• Kim Philby: the Soviet news service announced that the British intelligence officer and double agent had defected to the USSR (1963)
• Medicare: insurance program for senior citizens was signed into US law (1965)
• Jimmy Hoffa: the former Teamsters president disappeared in suburban Detroit; he has never been found, but he is presumed dead (1975)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act: "Corporate Responsibility Act" — that tightened control of financial reporting and reduced the potential for fraud — was signed into law by President George Bush (2002)

• Emily Brontë (1818-1848): the author of Wuthering Heights
• Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929): political economist who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" in his The Theory of the Leisure Class
• Henry Ford (1863-1947): inventor who popularized mass production with the Ford Motor Company
• Casey Stengel (1890-1975): manager of the NY Yankees who led them to five straight championships
• Henry Moore (1898-1986): sculptor of reclining figures
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (64): action-movie star who became governor of California
• Simon Baker (42): The Mentalist, Patrick Jane; also, actors Jean Reno (63), Ken Olin (57), Delta Burke (55), Laurence Fishburne (50), Lisa Kudrow (48), Vivica A. Fox (47), Terry Crews (43), Hilary Swank (37), Jaime Pressly (34) and Yvonne Strahovski (29)