Today's Highlights:
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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| Logging on to Facebook |
Spotlight: How were people in touch with each other before Facebook? What did they do? Write an email? How passé. The social networking site, which was founded in 2004, is now the No. 6 Internet site and the No. 1 site for posting photos. There are more than 60 million registered users of the site. Last year, Yahoo! offered $1 billion to buy Facebook, but the executive team turned it down. Happy birthday to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who turns 24 today.
Quote: "I'm surprised at how much Facebook.com has burrowed itself into real life along with instant messaging, text messaging and e-mail... It's another reason to be on the Net."
Question of the Day: What college did Mark Zuckerberg graduate from?The question is "what college did Mark Zuckerberg attend, but not graduate from?" And the answer would be that Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of the same school that Bill Gates dropped out of: Harvard. More
Word of the day: viviparousGiving birth to living young which develop within the maternal body.
Usage: Most mammals are viviparous.
It was Mother's Day this week in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and elsewhere around the globe. We dedicate this week's words to our mothers — those who gave birth to us, those who raised us and those who love us through thick and thin.
Today's History:
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| The Cast of 'Seinfeld' |
- Louis XIV: became king of France at age 4 (1643)
- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: to handle the shortage of male soldiers in WWII, Congress created a new unit that enlisted women for auxiliary noncombat duty (1942)
- Israel: the Jewish state was proclaimed independent; Egypt, Transjordan (later Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq declared war on it immediately (1948)
- Seinfeld: final episode aired, with some 76 million viewers watching (1998)
Today's Birthdays:
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| Amber Tamblyn |
- Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788): painter of landscapes and portraits
- David Byrne (56): singer with the Talking Heads; musicians Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) and Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) were also born on this date
- Robert Zemeckis (56): director/producer, Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Beowulf; George Lucas (64), Tim Roth (47) and Sofia Coppola (37) are all filmmakers who share this birth date
- Amber Tamblyn (25): star of Joan of Arcadia; actor Cate Blanchett (39) was also born today
