AL 288-1 , commonly known as Lucy, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis . In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh , which means “you are marvelous” in Amharic. Lucy was discovered in 1974.
“Lucy” was given her name by the paleoanthropoloigst team which discovered the bones in 1974; at the end of the day in which the bones were first discovered, the team celebrated at their camp, and the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” was played repeatedly on a cassette tape player, leading the team to adopt the name for their find.
“Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was widely criticized and even banned because of the supposed reference to the psychedelic drug LSD. However, John Lennon insisted that the song was actually inspired by a painting that his three-year-old son Julian had made of Lucy O’Donnell, his classmate at Heath House nursery school.
Lucy Vodden (née O’Donnell), who was the inspiration for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” died in 2009 at the young age of 46, after a long battle with the autoimmune disease lupus. She had been a classmate of Julian Lennon’s when they were very young and in nursery school.
Julian had been informed of her illness, and he renewed their friendship before her death.
Out of play: Here is the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds picture.
In play: 46 BC was 445 days long. This was so that the Julian calendar could come into effect the next January 1.
Left-handed baseball pitcher Kirk Rueter (“REE-ter”) played for the San Francisco Giants from 1996 to 2005. He is honored on the San Francisco Giants Wall of Fame at Oracle Park. When he pitched for the Giants, Rueter wore jersey number 46, as did another San Francisco Giants Wall of Famer, left-handed pitcher Gary Lavelle.
Paul Reuter, the founder of the Reuters News Agency, worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aachen’s Reuters House.
The Forty-Eighters were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe. In the German states, the Forty-Eighters favored unification of the German people, a more democratic government, and guarantees of human rights.
San Francisco 49’ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has two Super Bowl rings even though he has never won one. He earned them as Tom Brady’s backup on the New England Patriots.
Jimmy Garoppolo earned two rings, for Super Bowls XLIX and LI, when the Seattle Seahawks made the terrible end-of-game mistake by not handing the ball to Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch and instead Russell Wilson threw an ill-advised pick to rookie cornerback Malcolm Butler.
At that moment, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll yelled, “OH NO!”, and it’s one of my favorite quick videos:
Garoppolo’s second ring came when the Atlanta Falcons choked, big time, and choked away a 28-3 lead midway through the third quarter.
They also serve, who only stand and wait. … John Milton
-“BB”-
The oldest starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl is Tom Brady, who, at age 43, led the Tampa Bay Bucs to a victory over the Chiefs in Super Bowl 55 in February of 2021. The youngest starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl is Ben Roethlisberger, who was 23 years old when his Steelers defeated the Seahawks in Super Bowl 40 in February of 2006.
Both Brady and Roethlisberger retired after last season.
Out of play: don’t you mean the Stealers along with the refs?
In play: On November 4, 1979 the Seahawks had the worst offensive performance ever by a NFL team. A total of 1 first down and -7 total yards of offence.
Out of play: I watched that game on TV with my grandfather.
The Seattle Seahawks’ logo is a stylized seahawk (osprey) head, in the style of the art of the Kwakwakaʼwakw, an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest.
The Bell Boeing Osprey, V-22, is an American military multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities. The Osprey went very far over budget during its development and several of them crashed, leading to a Time magazine cover story about its troubled history. At one point the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and his wife (I always felt sorry for her for being dragged along) flew on an Osprey to show that it was safe.
The US military operates 194 golf courses at home and abroad. The quality of military golf courses can differ dramatically, ranging from the sprawling 54-hole championship complex outside Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, DC, to a couple of holes plopped in the highlands of Mosul, Iraq. The terrain is further varied. The military operates its golf courses in volcanoes, surrounded by landmines, and just outside the notorious detention center in Guantanamo Bay. It also boasts the “World’s Most Dangerous Golf Course“—a single par 3 just below the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.
Comment, not a play.
And they’ll likely make Canton in 5 years together.
Mosul, Iraq, gave its name to muslin, a sheer, delicate cotton fabric that was first manufactured in that city. In 1298 CE, Marco Polo described the cloth in his book The Travels . He said it was made in Mosul; it was prized for its beauty and its manufacture spread throughout the region.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Bengal emerged as the foremost muslin exporter in the world, with Dhaka as capital of the worldwide muslin trade. The fabric became popular in Europe, especially after the French Revolution, with the heavy brocades in vogue before the Revolution replaced by sheer, flowing muslin gowns.
Not in play: This means, of course, that it won’t be long before someone dubs it as ‘cultural appropriation’ and they will be forced to replace it with something else.
In play: The white tigers used by magicians Siegfried and Roy, one of which mauled Roy Horn during a performance in October 2003, are a variant of the Bengal tiger.
-“BB”-
The English horn aka the cor anglais was played in some takes of the Beatles’ Penny Lane. The final version, however, used a pocket trumpet.