Thursday, February 16, 2017

factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\, noun:

• A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.

Factotum is from Medieval Latin, from Latin fac totum, "do everything," from facere, "to do" + totus, "all."

going ham

• a derivative of the word mayhem

v.

• meaning to raise mayhem

Shelley hit me in the balls and ran, I'm going ham the next time i see her.

Holiday

• Washington's Birthday (2/16/15)

History

• Tutankhamen's tomb: Egyptian king's burial chamber was opened, mesmerizing the world with the wealth inside; among the treasures found were a gold throne, a gold sarcophagus and the king's mummified body (1923)
• nylon: the high-strength synthetic polymer was patented by industrial chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1937)
• Fidel Castro: became leader of Cuba after ousting Fulgencio Batista; he stepped down in 2008 due to ill health, and his brother Raúl took office (1959)
• 911: Alabama's speaker of the house placed the first call on the US emergency telephone system, in Haleyville (1968)

Birthdays

• Henry Adams 1838
• Robert Flaherty 1884
• Van Wyck Brooks 1886
• Katharine Cornell 1898
• Chester Morris 1901
• Wayne King (The Waltz King) 1901
• Edgar Bergen 1903
• Hugh Beaumont 1909
• Jimmy Wakely 1914
• Bill Doggett 1916
• Patty Marie Andrews 1918 - Singer (The Andrews Sisters)
• Jean Behra 1921
• Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe 1921
• Otis Blackwell 1932
• Gretchen Wyler 1932
• Sonny Bono 1935 - Singer (Sonny and Cher)
• Barry Primus 1938
• Herbie & Harold Kalin (The Kalin Twins) 1939
• Jeremy Bulloch 1946 - Actor (Boba Fett)
• Pete Postlethwaite 1946 - Actor
• William Katt 1951 - Actor
• Margaux Hemingway 1955
• James Ingram 1956 - Singer
• LeVar Burton 1957 - Actor
• Ice-T 1958 - Rapper
• Lisa Loring 1958 - Actress
• John McEnroe 1959 - Tennis player
• Andy Taylor 1961 - Musician (Duran Duran)
• Jerome Bettis 1972 - Football player
• Ahman Green 1977 - Football player
• Sam Salter 1978 - Singer