#HappyBirthday to Y'all (in the #October10 #BirthdayCohort with #WendiMcLendonCovey @wendimclendonco & #JuliaSweeney @JIsbackintown & ... You?) on #Maroons Day @PubHolidays | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass
... or -on 'whichever of these holidays, awareness-dates &or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'
Public Holidays explains Suriname's "Maroons 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 “Maroons” is built on the Spanish for #Fugitive.
The word "Fugitive" is built on ancient words that mean "to Flee" (Fleeting/Brief).
That's also the root of the verb #Maroon ... sort of. The notion of 'being |Exiled in the |Wilderness (or #Marooned)' is built on ancient words that mean Thicket or Mountain-area.
And the color comes from the name of a Sweet |Chestnut tree of the same color.
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 Libra ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Chris Penn, David Lee Roth, Wendi McLendon-Covey (whom I almost didn't recognize without the Beverly Goldberg 'mane' 😏), Tanya Tucker, Ben Vereen, California governor Gavin Newsom, Brett Favre, Mario Lopez, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Thelonious Monk, Ed Wood, Giuseppe Verdi, Helen Haes, Julia Sweeney, Amber Scott (singing daughter of Peter (Pan!) Panning in Hook) ...
(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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