#HappyBirthday to Y'all (in the #January16 #BirthdayCohort with #LinManuelMiranda @Lin_Manuel & @TheHorrorMaster #JohnCarpenter & ALL the #FamousBirthdays @Bing lists) on #FigNewtonDay @NewtonMAMayor | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates @YourTango @MySundayMass @CopelandNetwork
... or -on 'whichever of these holidays, awareness-dates &/or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'
Holidays Calendar explains our celebration of the #FigNewton 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 Fig Newton is a snack made of #Fig-paste that's |Sheathed in a Cookie/Burrito called a #Newton.
The word “Fig (\ #Figs #Figgy #FiggyPudding #Figgery #FigLeaf #FullFig)” is built on ancient words that mean ... Fig-Tree (words that evolve to mean 'an Insignificant Thing,' 'an Insulting Gesture), if not Dress, Condition, State of Preparedness, Equipment (probably an abbreviation of Figure, if not a reference to Adam-&-Eve's First Clothes).
The word "Newton (the cookie named after the town in Massachusetts)" is built on the words New Town (also the meaning of the surname & the given name).
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 Capricorn (on the cusp of Aquarius) ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Aaliya, Sade, Ronnie Milsap, John Carpenter, Ethel Merman, James May, George Pickett (Confederate Major-General), Susan Sontag (who wrote "Notes on 'Camp'"), Dizzy Dean
... 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!
Or maybe you'd like a reminder of 'where you've seen one of the ones we DO mention'; Ask in your comment!
I haven't gotten my Heart of the Nation calendar (which tells me which celebrations we (Catholics) are celebrating, and which color Vestments the clergy are wearing); so I look at my KCM 2022 Calendar, which tells us that today's the day to read Psalms 10-13 & Proverbs 2 (if we're sticking to the plan to read the whole Bible in a Year)
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