#HappyBirthday to @MichaelKeaton & @Raquel_Welch & ... you? (the #September5 #BirthdayCohort) on #CharityDay | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass

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

Holidays Calendar explains The (U.N. observed) International Day of #Charity (and some factoids about charitable celebrities) 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 Charity (like #Charities #Charitable #CharitySchool #CharityCase) is built on ancient words that mean "to Like, Desire" (also an alternate translation of a Biblical word (which is also the source of the given-name Charity) that some translate as Generous- & Brotherly Love or High Esteem or Diligence).
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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 Virgo ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Dweezil Zappa, Freddie Mercury (of QUEEN), Michael Keaton, Raquel Welch, Bob Newhart, Jesse James, William Devane (on 24, Knots Landing, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Dark Knight Rises, etc.) ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some ... you can find the date at the birthday-cohort link)
Michael Keaton, Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries, I guess), Bob Newhart


(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 with the clergy wearing Green Vestments for the day (incidentally the anniversary of Mother Teresa's beatification, which is part of the reason today is the International Day of Charity)


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