Did You Know #July20 is also #HappyBirthday to #GiseleBundchen @GiseleOfficial & #CarlosSantana @SantanaCarlos & the WHOLE #BirthdayCohort of #interNationalChessDay @NatlToday | @411Holidays @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass @MSNnews
National Today explains International #Chess Day 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 word “Chess” is built on ancient words that mean Check, Blow, |Rebuff, Defeat (the Sanskrit (original) name is छतुरन्ग (Chaturanga), meaning "Four Members of an Army (Elephants, Horses, Chariots, Foot-Soldiers)" ... preserved in Spanish ajedrez, Arabic شطرنج ((al) shat-ranj), Persian شترنج (chatrang) ...)
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 Cancer (on the cusp of Leo) ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Omar Epps, OXY-CLEAN salesman Billy Mays, Alexander the Great, Gisele Bündchen, Carlos Santana, Edmund Hillary (first person to climb Mt. Everest), Natalie Wood (Maria in 1961 film of WEST SIDE STORY), Chris Cornell (lead vocal/rhythm guitar for Soundgarden & Audioslave), Donna Dixon (Sonny Lumet on Bosom Buddies), Sandra Oh (Eve on KILLING EVE), Gregor Mendel (father of genetics), SNL-star Chloe Fineman, Puritan spiritual leader Anne Hutchinson (ancestor of the former White House aide with the cutting testimony? -to Starsky's partner?) ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some ... you can find the date at the birthday-cohort link)
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| the ETERNAL Horoscope-dates |
(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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