#HappyBirthday to Y'all (in the #November12 #BirthdayCohort with #BahaULlah of @Bahai & @RealDoctorMike & ALL #TheFamousPeople) on #Pneumonia Day @Stop_Pneumonia | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates @YourTango @MySundayMass
... or -on 'whichever of these holidays, awareness-dates &or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'
X explains Y 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 “|Pneumonia|” is built on ancient words that mean "|Inflammation of the #Pneumo- (|Lung ... related to words that mean Breathe, Float, Flow)."
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| The Stop Pneumonia Initiative---acting to stop pneumonia |
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 Scorpio ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Wallace Shawn ("Inconceivable!" ... that guy, in THE PRINCESS BRIDE), Rachel Dolezal (leader of the NAACP, despite not being ... whatever), baseball-player Sammy Sosa, founder of Bahá`i Faith Bahá'u'lláh, Charles Manson, Neil Young, Anne Hathaway, Ryan Gosling, Grace Kelly, Russell Westbrook, Tonya Harding (figure-skater AND boxer?), Nadia Comaneci, Steve Huffman (co-founder of reddit), Megan Mullally, Sun Yat Sen (Father of Modern China), sculptor Auguste Rodin, rapper Omarion, Women's Rights-Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lord Rayleigh (discoverer of the element Argon), Doctor Mike (Dr. Varshavski ... BEEoooWoop!) ...
... and many others (most of whom are at the 'Birthday-Cohort' link)---
Tell me about any of today's birthdays who're famous to you (and where we
should've heard of them).
Do I mention any you haven't heard-of? Ask me about them in the comments!
Do I mention any you haven't heard-of? Ask me about them in the comments!
My Heart of the Nation calendar says that we (Catholics) are celebrating St. Josephat, with the clergy wearing Red Vestments for the Memorial
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