Sunday, February 10, 2019

filch \filch\, verb:

• To steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.

Filch is of unknown origin. It may be related to the name for a kind of hook that could be used to steal small items from kitchen windows. It also may have come from the Middle English word filchen meaning "to attack (in a body), take as booty."

 

Don't forget to bring a towel 

• An amazing thing to randomly say. Possibly a reference to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which explains that having a towel with you means you're a together guy equipped with a tool with an abundance of uses.

Ford: Arthur, Don't forget to bring a towel. 

 

Trivia

How many seas around the world are named for colors?

• Four: the Black Sea, the Red Sea, the White Sea, and the Yellow Sea .

History

 

• Canada: was ceded by France to Britain when the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War (1763)
• Queen Victoria: wed Prince Albert; when Albert died in 1861, Victoria went into a period of mourning that only ended 50 years later, when she died

  
• "All the News That's Fit to Print": first appeared on page 1 of The New York Times; the slogan was coined by owner Adolph S. Ochs (1897)
• 1934 - The first imperforated, ungummed sheets of postage stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in New York City. "Chattanooga Choo Choo": earned bandleader Glenn Miller the first gold record for sales of over 1 million (1942)
• 1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S.
  ZZ Top played their first show together (1970)
• Deep Blue: computer won its first game against world chess champ Garry Kasparov (1996)

Birthdays 

• Charles Lamb 1775

  
• William Allen White 1868
• Boris Pasternak 1890
• Jimmy Durante 1893
• Maurice Harold Macmillan 1894 - British Prime Minister from 1957-1963
• Bertolt Brecht 1898 - Dramatist, poet
• Dame Judith Anderson 1898
• Lon Chaney, Jr. 1905
• Larry Adler 1914
• Allie Reynolds 1919
• Neva Patterson 1922
• Leontyne Price 1927
• Jerry Goldsmith 1929
• Robert Wagner 1930
• James E. West 1931
• Don Wilson (The Ventures) 1937
• Roberta Flack 1939
• Jimmy Merchant (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) 1940
• Ral Donner 1943
• Frances Moore Lapp 1944
• Mark Spitz 1950
• Greg Norman 1955
• Kathleen Beller 1955
• Lionel Cartwright 1960
• George Stephanopoulos 1961
• Cliff Burton 1962 - Musician (Metallica)
• Laura Dern 1967
• Dude Mowrey 1972
• Elizabeth Banks (Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell) 1974 - Actress
• Chloë Grace Moretz 1997