William Bligh was the Captain of the HMS Bounty, notorious for the 1789 mutiny against him in which the crew took over control of the ship and left Bligh and several loyal members of the crew on a small launch in the middle of the ocean. Bligh managed to navigate the boat over 3000 miles to Timor, where he reported the mutiny. Several years later, he was named Governor of New South Wales. In 1808, the colonists rose up against him and once more he was bound and deposed.
It looks like the artist painted 3 times. He was a German-American who painted while living in Germany. His second rendition ended up in New York, but to call it a copy is like saying the live version of Locomotive Breath is a copy of the studio version.
Its destruction is somehow fittingly ironic: the painting depicts the Minutemen on their way to attack Hessian mercenaries, an the first painting was destroyed when the Allies were attacking Germans.
The Dodgers joined the National League in 1890 in Brooklyn. That gives them 68 seasons playing in Brooklyn.
Robert Peary is generally credited with having been first to visit the North Pole, in 1909, but some modern research suggests he may have as much as 60 miles away. (Frederick Cook’s claim of having reached the Pole in 1908 is also disputed.)
The first undisputed claim to have actually stood at the North Pole goes to a Russian expedition by air that landed there in 1948.
The first undisputed visit to the North Pole by surface travel didn’t occur until 1968.
But they were the Robins for 17 years, and the Superbas until 1911, so there were only teams named the Brookly Dodgers from 1911-1912 and 1932-1957, a total of 27 years. The Montreal Expos lasted longer than that.
I’m going to guess that since Peary’s claim had been accepted as gospel for so long that there wasn’t a lot of in interest in re-doing what had already been done, accounting for almost six decades before there was a confirmed attainment by surface travel.
A telegraph cable was laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean three years before the start of the U.S. Civil War.
The first successful contact lens was invented in 1888.
Lighters were invented before matches.
They had lighters before 577 AD?
Cans were invented before can openers.
Buttons were invented before button holes.
The can opener was invented about 50 years later!
As MarvinKitFox pointed out, the first match was invented in 577 AD in China. Even the first modern chemical match was invented nearly two decades before the first lighter.
I’ve come back more than once to reread this, and every time, I think the Super Ba’s are like a regular Ba only better. 
And I have to fight the assumption that they lift and support.
I too had trouble reading that. “The Superballs? The Superbras?”
Cleon Jones of the Mets, and Hal Chase.
Leonardo da Vinci and Vlad Tepes (i.e., Dracula) were contemporaries.
Most people mispronounce the Brooklyn Superbas. It was pronounced “Superb-ahs.”
My submission to historical oddities is Roald Amundsen …
First to transverse the North West Passage in the Canadian Arctic …
First to the South Pole (by land) …
(Arguably) First to the North Pole (by air)
As far as that last claim, there is some contention … so I’ve included what’s posted on Wikipedia:
Tom Cruise is now older than Wilford Brimley was in “The Firm”.
There was a commercially available Fax service between Paris and Lyon…11 years before the invention of the telephone.
Considering the sport they played, the Batbas would have been a more appropriate team name.