#HappyBirthday to Y'all (in the #December7 #BirthdayCohort with @NicholasHoult & #ChaseyLain @RealChasey & ALL the @FamousBirthdays) on #NationalPearlHarborRemembranceDay | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates @YourTango @MySundayMass

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

Holidays Calendar explains National #PearlHarbor Remembrance Day in a report linked through 'that name' below; but first I want to understand that name better. And I find you understand names 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 lagoon was named Pearl Harbor (Hawaiian Wai Momi "Pearl Waters") because of the many #Pearl-producing Oysters that lived in the #Harbor. 
The word “Pearl (\ #Pearly #Pearls #PearlsBeforeSwine #Pearled #Pearling (tho I don't know why those aren't #Bepearled & #Bepearling (like 'Bejeweled')))” (Nacreous Mass formed in the Shell of a Bivalve Mollusk as a result of Irritation caused by a foreign body) is built on ... a lot of suggestions; from ancient words that mean "|Ham, |Haunch, |Gammon" (from the shape of the shell) to ancient words that mean "|Pear, |Globule" (based on the shape of the stone), to the ancient root of "|Margarite" (influencing the name |Margaret).

The word "Harbor (\ #Harbors #Harbored #Harboring #Harbour)" is built on words that mean "Army, Host (Harry) + Protection, Shelter (Hide)" (modeled on words that mean Room, Lodgings, |Quarters).

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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' ...

This Day's Birthday-Cohort

Astrologically, their sign is Sagittarius ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Larry Bird, Noam Chomsky, Tom Waits, Patrice O'Neal, Ravishing Rick Rude, John Bennett Ramsey (the FATHER of JonBeneacute;t), Nicholas Hoult (Kelsey Grammer's 'replacement' 😏 as Hank McCoy (The Beast) in X-MEN:-FIRST CLASS -et al.), the sung-about Chasey Lain


... and many others (most of whom are at the 'Birthday-Cohort' link)---

you might comment telling why we should recognize a special one I missed ...

Or maybe you'd like a reminder of 'where you've seen one of the ones we DO mention'; Ask in your comment!

My Heart of the Nation calendar says that we (Catholics) are celebrating St. Ambrose with the clergy wearing White Vestments for the Memorial


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