daven \DAH-vuhn\, verb:
- to pray.
Daven entered English in the mid-nineteenth century from Yiddish.
Link Diving
- The act of clicking further and further from your original subject of research. Commonly related to the popular website Wikipedia.com
I started out reading about Big Foot on Wikipedia, but two hours later of link diving later and I knew all about The Spring Heeled Jack of London.
Trivia
Which element is the best conductor of both electricity and heat?
- Silver.
History
- Pocahontas: Algonquian princess married English colonist John Rolfe, a tobacco planter (1614)
- veto: was used by a US president for 1st time — by George Washington; it was another half century before Congress first overrode a presidential veto (1792)
- manual alphabet: Anne Sullivan breaks through to Helen Keller when she spells "water" into her hand (1887)
- Akashi Kaikyō Bridge: Japanese "Pearl Bridge" opened; it links Kobe to Awaji Island and, at 1,991 meters or 6,532 feet, is the world's longest suspension bridge (1998)
Birthdays
- Thomas Hobbes 1588
- Elihu Yale 1649
- Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash)
- Robert Smalls 1839
- Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery)
- Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy 1900 - Actor ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]")
- Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) 1901 - Actor ("Ghost Story", "Being There")
- Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis 1908 - Actress ("Dangerous", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?")
- Jagjivan Ram 1908 - Political leader in India
- Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower")
- Arthur Hailey 1920 - Author (Airport, The Final Diagnosis)
- Robert Q. Lewis 1921 - Comedian, TV quiz show panelist ("What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth")
- Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle) 1922 - Singer ("Ivory Tower"), actress ("My Little Margie")
- Stan Levey 1925 - Drummer (in band with Charlie Parker), composer
- Roger Corman 1926 - Director
- Tony Williams 1928 - Singer (Platters)
- Nigel Hawthorne 1929 - Actor ("Richard III", "Demolition")
- Cowboy Jack Clement 1931
- Billy Bland 1932 - Singer
- Frank Gorshin 1934 - Impressionist, actor ("Batman", "The Great Imposter")
- Stanley Turrentine 1934 - Saxophone player
- Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Ronnie White - Singer (The Miracles)
- Tommy Cash 1940 - Songwriter, country singer, brother of Johnny Cash
- David LaFlamme 1941
- Michael Moriarty 1941 - Actor ("Windmills of the Gods")
- Peter Greenaway 1942 - Director, writer
- Allan Clark 1942 - Singer (The Hollies)
- Maxwell Gail 1943 - Actor ("Barney Miller")
Crispin St. Peters 1944- Dave Holland 1944 - Musician (Judas Priest)
- Doug Favell 1945 - Hockey player
- Jane Asher 1946 - Actress
- Dr. Judith A. Resnik 1949 - Electric engineer, astronaut
- Agnetha Faltskog 1950 - Singer (ABBA)
- Marv Bateman 1950 - Football player
- Rennie (Renaldo Antonio Porte) Stennett 1951 - Baseball player
- Brad Van Pelt 1951 - Football player
Mitch Pileggi 1952 - actor, The X-Files- Peter Greenway 1952
- Peter Case 1954 - Musician (Plimsouls)
- Stan Ridgeway 1954 - Musician (Wall of Voodoo)
- Mike McCready 1966 - Musician (Pearl Jam)
- Troy Gentry 1967 - Country singer
- Paula Cole 1968 - Singer
- Krista Allen 1971 - hottie
- Pharrel Williams 1973 - Rapper
