Thursday, February 16, 2023

Thursday, February 16, 2023

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 (2/16/23)
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

 
 
 
 

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