#DidYouKnow that #CoastGuardDay (on #August4) is also #HappyBirthday to the star whom @MeghanMarkleOrg follow & to @BarackObama & that WHOLE #BirthdayCohort ?? | @MILITARYdotcom @the_USO @411Holidays @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass
... or Happy 'whichever of these holidays & or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'
Military.com explains the U.S. Coast Guard's founding in a report linked through 'that word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The U.S. Coast Guard was founded primarily to Enforce Trade-Laws and to Prevent Smuggling at the #Coast (though they do so much more).
The word “Coast” is built on ancient words that mean |Rib (from back when that Bone was regarded as an entire Side of the body ... leading to the word's use to describe an entire |Slope on a Hill or -Mountain, and the practice of Sliding Down that slope).
#Coasted #Coasting #Coasts #JustCoast #TheCoastIsClear #SetItOnCoast #ClearTheCoast #CoastingThrough #Coastal #Costal #Costa #Coaster #Coastline #Costard
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I sometimes get a little 'thrill' from realizing that I have the same birthday as several famous people, and enough other people get that thrill from seeing their birthday-cohort (both the currently-famous & the probably-not-yet famous) that I figure it's worth doing 'one of these entries for every birthday' ...
Today's Birthday-Cohort
Astrologically, their sign is Leo ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: sorta-princess Meghan Markle, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth I), President Barack Obama (sure, people say "ex-President"; but I think 'Bar' still represents "the American Dream!"), Louis Armstrong, Billy Bob Thornton, Greta Gerwig (she's worked in a lot of Hollywood, but I ... I've probably never seen her in anything, and mistook her name for Greta Thunberg), Richard Belzer (Detective in HOMICIDE: Life on the Street & LAW & ORDER: Special Victims Unit), Louis Vuitton, FOX NEWS political correspondent Bret Baier, Jeff Gordon, Michael Gelman (producer of Live with Kelly and Ryan ... though I remember him from back when it was ... with Regis (Philbin) and Kathie Lee (Gifford)), Don S. Davis (General Hammond, STARGATE SG-1) ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some ... you can find the date at the birthday-cohort link)
(and--if you or someone you know about has a birthday today
--please mention them (and how you know them or -know
about them) in the comments, thanks)
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