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| Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
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| Keith Urban (l.) and Brad Paisley |
Answer of the DayWho is the youngest artist ever to be nominated for CMA Entertainer of the Year? That would be nineteen-year-old Taylor Swift, among the nominees for the association's top prize this year. Just two years ago she won the CMA Horizon Award for Best New Artist. This year, she's up for four awards. If you're a country music lover, tonight's a big night — the CMA Awards air live from Nashville at 8 PM ET on ABC. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host the event, which will have performances by all this year's nominees for Entertainer of the Year: Paisley, Swift, Kenny Chesney, George Strait and Keith Urban. Paisley, the front-runner for tonight's prizes, was nominated for a total of seven awards. The first person to win CMA Entertainer of the Year, when it was first presented in 1967, was Eddy Arnold. Kenny Chesney was Entertainer of the Year in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Quote"Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is."
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Today in History
- Mayflower Compact: was signed by the 41 free male Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, setting up the basis of the Plymouth colony government (1620)
- The Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11: freak temperature highs and lows were recorded across the US, many in the same cities (1911)
- Tomb of the Unknowns: the first unknown soldier in this tomb was interred in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery (1921)
- U.S. Route 66: "the Main Street of America," stretching from Chicago to California, was established (1926)
- New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior: an unknown warrior was interred in this Wellington tomb; the warrior died on the Somme during WWI and his tomb now reads, "An Unknown New Zealand Warrior/ He Toa Matangaro No Aotearoa" (2004)
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Today's Birthdays
- Paracelsus (1493-1541): physician and alchemist
- George Patton (1885-1945): US Army general
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007): sci-fi author, Slaughterhouse-Five; authors who share this birth date include Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Howard Fast (1914-2003) and Carlos Fuentes (81)
- Jonathan Winters (84): madcap comedian
- Fuzzy Zoeller (58): champion golfer
- Leonardo DiCaprio (35): actor and environmentalist, The Aviator, Revolutionary Road; also, actors Stanley Tucci (49), Demi Moore (47), Calista Flockhart (45), David DeLuise (38), Adam Beach (37)
Word of the Dayxylem
Part of a plant's vascular system that conveys water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant and furnishes mechanical support. Xylem constitutes the major part of a mature woody stem or root and the wood of a tree, and consists of specialized water-conducting tissues made up mostly of several types of narrow, elongate, hollow cells.
X-rays were discovered by William Röntgen 114 years ago this week — so-called because they were previously unknown to him. In their honor, let's examine a week's worth of words that start with x (yes, there are others besides xylophone).
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