Sammy Baugh played 16 seasons in the NFL, all with the Washington Redskins (now known as the Washington Football Team). Baugh was one of the league’s leading passers during his career, but he was a multi-talented player: he also led the NFL in punting average five times, and while playing defensive back, he led the league by making 11 interceptions in 1943.
When George Preston Marshall purchased an NFL franchise for Boston in 1932, they had a contract to play at Braves Field, home of the National League baseball team, and went by the same name – the Boston Braves . A year later, the team moved to Fenway Park and changed their name to “The Redskins.” Then, in 1937, the NFL approved the team’s relocation to Washington, D.C. – and the Washington Redskins were officially born.
Comment only — there was one season where he led the league in 3 categories: TD passes thrown, interceptions made (on defense), and average punting yardage. I think it’s safe to say that nobody will ever break that record.
Skunkdog’s trivia remains in play.
The Boston Braves won their one World Series in 1914, a team that became known as “the Miracle Braves.” In last place on the Fourth of July, the Braves went 68-19 over their last 87 games to win the pennant. The continued their winning in the World Series, sweeping the heavily-favored Philadelphia Athletics, with their $100,000 infield, 4-0.
Out of frustration and pressure from the Federal League, Connie Mack dismantled the A’s, selling off most of his great players.
The Federal League began in 1913 as a minor league for baseball, but in 1914 and 1915 they became a major league. For those two years there were three major leagues, the National League (founded 1876), the American League (1901), and the Federal League (1913).
Chicago’s Wrigley Field was built, not for the Cubs, but for the Chicago Whales of the Federal League.
In June of 1974, a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio installed the first bar code scanning equipment. The first product to be scanned using a UPC bar code was a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum. This pack of gum is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
Aviation is intertwined with Troy, Ohio’s history. The Weaver Aircraft Company, known as WACO, began in 1919. The company was the largest manufacturer of civil aircraft, used by explorers, salesman and the postal service, in the late 1920s and 1930s.
Troy weight is a system of units of mass that originated in 15th-century England, and is primarily used in the precious metals industry.
The Troy weights are:
— grain = 64.799 milligrams = 0.00228571 ounces
— pennyweight = 24 grains = 0.0548571 ounces
— troy ounce = 20 pennyweights = 1.09714 ounces
— troy pound = 12 troy ounces = 0.822857 pounds
Therefore
— the troy ounce weighs more than the avoirdupois ounce
— the troy pound weighs less than the avoirdupois pound
The troy ounce is believed to have originated in – and derived its name from – a French town called Troyes in the Middle Ages, as traveling merchants from around the globe would buy and sell goods in France’s trade markets, necessitating a standardized weight system that would made it easier to do business among people from various countries.
King Henry II of England adopted the troy weight system, which was widely used in Britain’s coinage system in the 1400s. In the early 1500s, the troy ounce was accepted as the official standard of measure for gold and silver in Britain, with the US adopting this measurement method as well in 1828.
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The French king Louis IX, one of the most celebrated rulers of his time who was later canonized as a saint, led two invasions into the Holy Land — the Seventh and Eight crusades — after vowing to God he would retake the territory if he was granted divine assistance in recovering from malaria. The legend was that the devout king later died of plague in 1270 while leading the Eighth Crusade, but a more recent analysis points to him dying of scurvy caused by his refusal to eat foreign food, instead dining almost exclusively on fish.
The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River. Traditionally, it is synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine. The term “Holy Land” usually refers to a territory roughly corresponding to the modern State of Israel, the Palestinian territories, western Jordan, and parts of southern Lebanon and southwestern Syria.
Muslims, Jews, Druze, followers of the Baháʼí Faith, and Christians regard it as holy.
In 63 BC Pompey the Great captured Jerusalem. Although the ruling dynasty, the Jewish Hasmonean Kings, survived, they became ‘puppet monarchs’ who relied on Rome for their power.
The ‘63 Porsche 356b cabriolet is a car near the end of its production run of ‘48 to ‘65. The 356 is Porsche’s first production car.
Production started in 1948 at Gmünd, Austria, where Porsche built approximately 50 cars. In 1950 the factory relocated to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and general production of the 356 continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911 made its September 1964 debut. Of the 76,000 originally produced, approximately half survive.
The original price in 1948 for the 356 coupe was $3,750. The 356 cabriolet cost $4,250.
On February 16, 1968, the first 911 call was made in Haleyville Alabama. But it wasn’t for an emergency. It was for show, with the Alabama speaker of the House placing the call and giving the Alabama Telephone Company bragging rights as the first telephone service provider to implement the new system, despite the fact that 911 was developed by AT&T.
After the last 356 was produced in 1965, Porsche’s next production car was the 911. The 911 began production in September 1964 and remains in continuous production to today. The one millionth 911 was manufactured in May 2017 and is in the company’s permanent collection.
In 356 AD, Emperor Constantius II exiled Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, for his anti-Arian theological views. It was one of five periods of exile for Athanasius, ordered by four different Emperors. Although he was Bishop of Alexandria for 45 years, 17 of those years were spent in exile.
Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, was born in July 356 BC.
In 1991 CE, the Republic of Macedonia declared its independence, as a successor state to the nation of Yugoslavia. However, the new nation wound up in a dispute over its name with the nation of Greece, as there is a region of Greece known as Macedonia, as well as there having been the ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedonia.
The dispute continued for decades, until an agreement was finally reached between the two countries, leading to the Republic of Macedonia changing its name to North Macedonia.
Yugoslavia was the host nation of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. It was the first Olympics to take place in the Balkans since the first Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896.
The Siege of Sarajevo, then capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, took place during the Bosnian War. The siege lasted from April of 1992 until February of 1996. Lasting 1,425 days, it was more than a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad. It was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.