February 21, 2008
Volume 11 No 34
Stupid Quote Of Quotes Of The
The Day
Day
On Great Reasons To Become
President:
f you ask me, I’d like to become the
first female president. That would be
really cool. . . . The first thing I would
do is redecorate [the White House]. It
doesn’t look very cozy.
Embarrassment is what the defender is left
with afterwards.
Alonzo Mourning got Boomed On by Vince
Carter.
.K. Rowling:
J
"It takes a great deal of courage
to stand up to your enemies, but even
more to stand up to your friends."
I
Unknown:
singer/actress Jennifer Lopez
“A friend is someone who will help you
move. A real friend is someone who will
help you move a body.”
Solomon Short:
A Word A Day
w
eald (weeld) noun
A woodland.
[From Old English weald (forest).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus.
“The only winner in the War of 1812 was
Tchaikovsky.”
"I loved the weald and the buzzards circling
in the sky." Philippa Gregory; The Other
Boleyn Girl; Touchstone; 2003.
John F. Kennedy:
This week's theme: short words.
“Liberty without learning is always in peril;
DILBERT-OF-THE-DAY
learning without liberty is always in vain.”
Useless Facts
Of The Day
U
seless facts:
Urban Word Of
The Day

King Alfonso of Spain (18861931), was so tone-deaf that
he had one man in his employ known
as the Anthem Man. This man's duty
was to tell the king to stand up
whenever the Spanish national
anthem was played, because the
monarch couldn't recognize it.
Published: 3/6/2016 10:34 AM
B
oomed on
In a game of basketball when a
defender attempts to stop a dunk
and fails. This often occurs to an
unaware defender or to a defender that
finds out at the last moment and can do
nothing to stop what is about to occur.
*Happy Birthday*
------------------------1925 Al Fann OH, actor (He's the Mayor) [83]
1927 Patricia Benoit actress (Mr Peepers) [81]
1934 Rue McClanahan OK, actress (Maude) [74]
1937 Gary Lockwood actor (2001, Lieutenant)[71]
1943 David Geffen NY, record producer [65]
1944 Kitty Winn DC, actress (Beacon Hill) [64]
1946 Anthony Daniels actor (Star Wars) [62]
1946 Tricia Nixon Cox Dick Nixon's daughter [62]
1946 Tyne Daly WI, actress (Cagney & Lacey)[62]
1946 Alan Rickman actor (Die Hard) [62]
1947 Olympia J Snowe (Rep-R-ME, 1979- ) [61]
1949 Jerry Harrison keyboard (Talking Heads)[59]
1953 Christine Ebersole actr (SNL, Tootsie) [55]
1953 William L Petersen actor (CSI) [55]
1955 Kelsey Grammer actor (Frasier) [53]
1958 Jack Coleman PA, actor (Dynasty) [50]
1958 Jake Steinfeld exercise (Body by Jake) [50]
1958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter country singer [50]
1961 Christopher Atkins NY, actor (Dallas) [47]
1966 Bronwen Booth actress (Glory & Honor)[42]
1975 Troy Slaten act(Parker Lewis Can't Lose)[33]
1979 Jennifer Love Hewitt actr (Party of Five)[29]
1986 Charlotte Church singer
[22]
1987 Ellen Page actress (X-Men: Last Stand)[21]
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Stuff-Of-The-Day Newsletter
History Of The
Day
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431 England begins trial against
Joan of Arc
1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through
Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117
1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US
President to visit China
1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd
NHL game without being shut-out
1583 Groningen Netherlands begins
using Gregorian calendar
1975 John Lennon's "Rock 'n' Roll" album
is released
1598 Boris Godunov crowned tsar
1975 John Mitchell, H R Haldeman & John
D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 years
1613 Michael Romanov, son of the
Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1792 Congress passes Presidential
Succession Act
1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe,
murderer of 13 women, captured
1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition"
premieres
Gadget Of The
Day
S
ommelier's Wine Chiller
Electronic wine
chiller is a musthave for wine
enthusiasts!
optimal temperature.
It’s like have a
sommelier in your
kitchen! Order your
electric sommelier’s
wine chiller today and
serve favorite
vintages the way they
were meant to be
enjoyed.
1804 1st locomotive,
Richard Trevithick's, runs
for 1st time, in Wales
1842 1st known sewing
machine patented in US,
John Greenough,
Washington DC
1858 Edwin T Holmes
installs 1st electric burglar
alarm (Boston MA)
Choose the table top
wine chiller with the
sleek design.
Forget the ice bucket.
Today’s well-stocked
1887 Oregon becomes 1st
kitchen deserves an
US state to make Labor
electronic wine chiller!
Day a holiday
Simply select your
wine from the
1902 Dr Harvey Cushing,
database of 26 wines
1st US brain surgeon, does
and our chiller
his 1st brain operation
Orion's Horsehead Nebula
automatically brings
1911 Gustav Mahler
your bottle to the
conducts his last concerto
Explanation: The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as
recommended
the dark indentation to the red emission nebula seen just below and left of center in the this
(Berceuse élégique)
temperature to bring
photograph. The brightest star on the left is located in the belt of the familiar constellation Orion.
1917 British Mendi sinks off The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the
out the best possible
Isle of Wight, 627 die
palette, bouquet, and
bright red emission nebula. Like clouds in Earth's atmosphere, this cosmic cloud has assumed a
recognizable shape by chance. After many thousands of years, the internal motions of the cloud will wine-drinking
1917 Train near Chirurcha alter its appearance. The emission nebula's red color is caused by electrons recombining with
experience.
Romania catches fire &
protons to form hydrogen atoms. Also visible in the picture are blue reflection nebulae that
explodes; 100s die
preferentially reflect the blue light from nearby stars.
Electronic wine chiller
cools or warms 26
1922 Airship Rome
types of red, white, and champagne
explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree
wines.
die
Ladies Golf Classic
1878 1st telephone
directory (with 50 names)
issued (New Haven CT)
1922 Great Britain grants Egypt
independence
1931 Alka Seltzer introduced
1931 Chicago White Sox & New York
Giants play 1st exhibition night game
1932 Camera exposure meter patented,
WN Goodwin
1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure
skating triple jump in competition
1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael
Wilding)
1953 F Crick & J Watson discover structure
of DNA-molecule
1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on
"American Bandstand"
http://www.stuffoftheday.com/
1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined
$20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to
classes at Western Middle School
1988 During a live TV broadcast,
televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52)
admitted to visiting a prostitute, then
announced he would be leaving his
ministry for an unspecified length of
time.
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1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins
Olympics gold medal in women's fig
skating
1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman
to fly in a tornado
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