Friday, February 22, 2013

TGIF! Friday, February 22, 2013

kinchin \kin-chin\, noun:
  • a child.
Derived from the German kindchen, kinchin is a diminutive form of kind meaning "child." Kindchen entered the lexicon in the last decade of the 1600s.
Instagram Friendly
  • Used to describe a location, typically a restaurant, where there is either good cellular coverage or free wi-fi and adequate lighting to properly capture food porn photos and upload them to Instagram.
Mike is really addicted to food porn photos, he'll only go to Instagram Friendly restaurants now.
Trivia
Where in the U.S. is the only statue of George Washington for which America’s first president actually posed?
  • In Richmond, Virginia, in the state capitol. The life-size marble statue was carved by noted French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon after he took detailed measurements of Washington’s body, and made a life mask of his face and a plaster bust of his head. The statue was installed in the capitol rotunda in 1796.
Holiday
  • George Washington's Birthday
History
  • Transcontinental Treaty: Spain ceded Florida to the US (1819)
  • Woolworth's store: general-store clerk Frank Woolworth opened his first five-and-dime, in Utica, NY (1879)
  • Daytona 500: NASCAR's most important race was first held in Daytona Beach, Florida; Lee Petty came in first, driving at 135.52 mph (213.22 kmph) (1959)
  • 1978 - Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen were arrested in New York and charged with drug possession.
  • Miracle on Ice: the US beat the Soviet Union at ice hockey in a major upset at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York (1980)
  • 1989 - Milli Vanilli won a Grammy for Best New Artist. It was admitted later that they were not the vocalists on the album.
  • 1993 - Radiohead's first album, "Pablo Honey", was released.
  • Securitas depot robbery: a group of men pulled off Britain's biggest crime in terms of cash stolen — £53 million (2006)
Birthdays
  • George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States.
  • Johann Nikolaus Forkel 1749
  • Rembrandt Peale 1778
  • Frederic-Francois Chopin 1810
  • James Russell Lowell 1819
  • Robert Baden-Powell 1857
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892
  • Luis Bunuel 1900
  • Robert Young 1907
  • Sheldon Leonard 1907
  • John Mills 1908
  • Robert Wadlow 1918
  • Bud Yorkin 1926
  • Paul Dooley 1928
  • Edward M. Kennedy 1932 - got away with murder
  • Ernie K-Doe 1936
  • Bobby Hendricks 1938
  • Jonathan Demme 1944
  • Oliver (Swofford) 1945
  • John Ashton 1948
  • Ellen Greene 1950
  • Julie Walters 1950
  • Julius Erving II 1950
  • Miou-Miou (Sylvette Hery) 1950
  • Amy Alcott 1956
  • Kyle MacLachlan 1959
  • Steve Irwin 1962 - The Crocodile Hunter
  • Jeri Ryan 1968
  • Jose Solano 1971
  • Lea Salonga 1971
  • Michael Chang 1972
  • Scott "Flip" Phillips (Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips) 1973 - Drummer (Creed)
  • Drew Barrymore 1975 - Actress
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