Homer Simpson, voiced by Dan Castellaneta (pictured), is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons. Homer is the boorish father of the Simpson family and as the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. With his wife, Marge, he has three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Homer embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, overweight, incompetent, clumsy, lazy and ignorant; however, he is also fiercely devoted to his family. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. After appearing on The Tracey Ullman Show for three years, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox, which debuted December 17, 1989. Homer is one of the most influential fictional characters on television and has inspired an entire line of merchandise. His catchphrase, the annoyed grunt "d'oh!", has been included in several dictionaries. Castellaneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and a special achievement Annie Award for voicing Homer. In 2000, Homer, along with the rest of his family, was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
920:
Romanos I became co-Byzantine Emperor with the underage Constantine VII. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_I
1819:
The Republic of Gran Colombia in South America was established, with Simón Bolívar as its first president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Colombia
1862:
American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._11_%281862%29
1903:
In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
1918:
Protesting government policies concerning political representation, unemployment and taxation, about 1,000 demonstrators marched on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, where they burnt an effigy of the Administrator of the Northern Territory John Gilruth and demanded his resignation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Rebellion
1944:
Nazi German troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmedy_massacre
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don't look a gift horse in the mouth (proverb): A phrase referring to unappreciatively questioning of a gift or handout too closely http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don%27t_look_a_gift_horse_in_the_mouth
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
''Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,
For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all,
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!" --John Greenleaf Whittier http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier
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