#HappyBirthday to @Zendaya & @GloriaEstefan & ... you? (the #September1 #BirthdayCohort) on #NoRhymeNorReasonDay @NationalDayCal | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass

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... -or on 'whichever of these holidays & or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'

National Day Calendar explains--in a report linked through 'that word' below--that today we celebrate 'words that don't #rhyme with any other words' (i.e. #Refractory #Rhymes, words that poets tend to avoid as they seem to knock all the Rhyme & Reason out of their otherwise-lyrical verse); 

... 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)
(you probably don't want to look at this long-enough to notice, it's the cropped mid-section of a
drawing of a panda (with a subliminal message about 'how endangered the pandas are))
The word “Rhyme” is built on ancient words that mean "to Flow" (related to |Rhythm, Number (Reason, Count)). #Rhyming #Rhymed #Rhymes #RhymeOrReason #NoRhymeNorReason #RhymeScheme #RhymeRoyal #RhymingDictionary #RhymingSlang #OffRhyme #OttavaRima #Rime 
The word “Refractory” (which actually means something like "Refusing to Obey") is built on ancient words that mean "to Break Back" #Refractorily #Refractoriness #Refraction #Refract
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And if you know anymore, you're welcome to try them out in the comments below!
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 Virgo ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Scott Speedman (the unifying crossbreed (Vampire AND Werewolf (a.k.a. Lycan) of UNDERWORLD?), basketball-star Tim Hardaway, martial-artist Billy Blanks, Zendaya (-Maree Stoermer Coleman), Barry Gibb (of The Beegees), Dr. Phil McGraw (Ph.D. ... technically a "doctor," but I don't see him prepping for your surgery😏), Lily Tomlin, 

...boxer Rocky Marciano (not 'The Italian Stallion,' but "The Brockton Blockbuster"), lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Gloria Estefan, Conway Twitty, Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan), Coyote Peterson, 

... Johann Pachelbel (composer of the famous Canon in D, the first place I heard 'the chord-progression of most popular music'), James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (founder of the New York Herald) ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some more ... 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)

My Heart of the Nation calendar says that we (Catholics) are celebrating Mass with the clergy wearing Green Vestments.


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