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Lesney was founded on 19 January 1947 as an industrial die-casting company by Leslie Smith (6 March 1918 - 26 May 2005) and Rodney Smith (26 August 1917 - 20 July 2013). The name "Lesney" was an acronym from both partners' (who were not related by blood) names. They had been school friends and served together in the Royal Navy during World War II.
A matchbox is a container or case made of cardboard, thin wood or metal on some models, and designed to be filled with matches. In short, is a box that contains safety matches made of wooden sticks or cardboard stripes. It commonly has a coarse striking surface on one edge for lighting the matches contained inside.
The Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (sometimes called the Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine or MENACE) was a mechanical computer made from 304 matchboxes designed and built by artificial intelligence researcher Donald Michie in 1961. It was designed to play human opponents in games of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) by ...
Wedding invitation. A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother ...
Redhead Matchbox. Redheads is an Australian brand of matches, originally manufactured by Bryant and May in Richmond, Victoria, but now manufactured in Sweden by Swedish Match. [1] It is Australia's top-selling match brand. [2] Matches were first produced in Australia in 1909. Initially they were made of white phosphorus. [3]
Phillumeny. Assorted matchboxes and match labels. Phillumeny (also known as phillumenism) is the hobby of collecting different match -related items: matchboxes, matchbox labels, matchbooks, matchcovers, matchsafes, etc. [1]
The song "Senses Working Overtime" by XTC contains the spoken phrases "England's Glory" and "A striking beauty", the latter being a slogan associated with "England's Glory" matches. The Macc Lads wrote a song called "England's Glory" referring to the matches. The Welsh band Stereophonics took the lyric 'It only takes one tree to make a thousand ...
Field hockey player Cassie Sumfest also got in on the "Love Island" joke, sharing a video of herself posing in her Team USA gear with her luggage. "ready to enter the Olympic Villa & let everyone ...