Only two teams which predate the creation of the Super Bowl have never advanced to that game: the Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions.
Note that, in 1996, the Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore, and became the Ravens – as the Ravens, the franchise has won two Super Bowls. However, as part of a settlement with the city of Cleveland over the relocation, the NFL deemed that the Ravens would considered to be a “new” team, and the Browns’ franchise history and records would be attached to a new expansion team, also named the Browns, which began play in 1999/
Over the last 20 NFL seasons (2003 season through the 2022 season), the Cleveland Browns have the worst record in the NFL. In that span, the Browns have a record of 106-215-1. Surprisingly (to me, at least), the Raiders have the second-worst record at 115-206. Unsurprisingly, the Lions have the third-worst record at 117-203-2.
(The Raiders lost Super Bowl XXXVII, which was played in January of 2003. That’s one of the reasons why I was surprised at their record since then.)
In 1798, a ten-year-old boy named Seth Doan effectively saved the tiny town of Cleveland, Ohio by carrying food and water to his family and neighbors when they were sickened by malaria.
“Doan’s” (formerly referred to as “Doan’s Pills”) is a brand of over-the-counter pain reliever, containing the analgesic drug magnesium salicylate. Doan’s has long been marketed specifically as a treatment for back pain. Vintage Old 1970's Doan's Back Pain Relief Pills Commercial - YouTube
NBA great Shaquille O’Neal has endorsed Icy Hot Pain Relief for almost 20 years, although his first encounter with the product led to applying too much of it in the affected area— his upper thigh— and subsequently the ointment liquefied while he was playing, and when he sat down it ran to his crotch, resulting in him having to leave the bench to seek relief.
Shaquille O’Neal was the 1st overall draft pick in the 1992 NBA draft. He is one of eleven 1st overall draft picks to have also won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award. The eleven are:
1960 Oscar Robertson
1969 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (record six-time winner)
1974 Bill Walton
1979 Magic Johnson (three-time winner)
1984 Hakeem Olajuwon
1987 David Robinson
1992 Shaquille O’Neal
1996 Allen Iverson
1997 Tim Duncan (two-time winner)
2003 LeBron James (four-time winner)
2008 Derrick Rose (youngest winner)
Notable 1st overall draft picks include, with their draft year:
1958 Elgin Baylor
1968 Elvin (“the Big E”) Hayes
1970 Bob Lanier
1973 Doug Collins
1974 Bill Walton
1978 Mychal Thompson
1979 Magic Johnson
1982 James Worthy
1983 Ralph Sampson
1991 Larry Johnson
1996 Allen Iverson
2011 Kyrie Irving
2012 Anthony Davis
2014 Andrew Wiggins
Kwame Brown (2001), LeBron James (2003), and Dwight Howard (2004) were 1st overall NBA draft picks who were selected straight out of high school.
In 2004 Serbian rookie Darko Miličić became the youngest player to win an NBA Championship. Playing for the Detroit Pistons, his team defeated the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers in five games (out of seven) when he was just four days shy of his 19th birthday. Miličić was drafted after LeBron James and ahead of Dwayne Wade and Carmelo Anthony. He played nine years before retiring with career averages of 6.0 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. He is listed among the biggest busts in NBA draft history.
Nitpick: His first name is actually spelled Dwyane.
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The country of Yugoslavia came into being following World War I. Originally called the ‘Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes’, its first sovereign was Peter I of Serbia. The name was changed to the ‘Kingdom of Yugoslavia’ in 1929. Its capital was Belgrade, which is the current capital of the country of Serbia. Yugoslavia ceased to exist in 1992.
And then there was the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”, which was a 1992–2006 state union between Serbia and Montenegro. It was called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003. It comprised the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro until February 2003 when it became a political union, or a confederation, until Montenegro then seceded in June 2006. Serbia and Montenegro are now fully independent countries.
The Zastava Koral, also known as the Yugo, was a subcompact car, built and manufactured by Zastava Automobiles, a Yugoslavian (later Serbian) car company.
The Yugo was a shortened version of the Fiat 128, and was introduced in 1980. Though it was primarily sold in Eastern European countries, it was also exported to the West in the 1980s, including to the U.S., Canada, and the UK. Though the Yugo was popular and well-liked in Yugoslavia, in western countries, the car quickly became synonymous with poor quality and poor reliability.
Zastava also sold a car called the Florida. It was also known as the Yugo Florida or the Yugo Miami. Zastava manufactured the Florida from 1987 through 2008. It was a five-door hatchback designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro.
The Florida was the most advanced and independently engineered automobile produced by Zastava before it stopped producing civilian automobiles in 2008.
Zastava TERVO (short for “Zastava Terenska Vozila”) is a Serbian automotive and defense company, specialized in the production of all-terrain vehicles. Based in Kragujevac, it was formed in 2017 with all assets of Zastava Trucks including most of its employees. Main product of the company is Zastava NTV designed in cooperation with Military Technical Institute.
The Zastava NTV has been in operation since 2016, according to wiki. NTV is for Novo terensko vozilo, or New Terrain Vehicle. It runs on a Cummins 2.8L turbo diesel motor and has a top speed of 65 MPH. It has approach and departure angles of 35° each. It can negotiate longitudinal slopes of 60% and transverse slopes of 35%, and can ford at 2.3 ft deep in water.
The Cummins Engine Company was founded in Columbus, Indiana, in February of 1919, by mechanic Clessie Cummins and a banker by the name of William Irwin. After first achieving success with a diesel engine designed for railroad switch locomotives, the company became the industry leader during the building boom of the 1950s. In that decade, more than half of the heavy-duty truck market featured a Cummins engine. Today the company has operations in 197 countries and territories.
Matthew Harrison Brady, a thinly-disguised character based on William Jennings Bryan, orator and frequent Democratic candidate for President, is the principal antagonist in the play Inherit the Wind, based on the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.
A linac gantry is the armature that directs the angles from which radiation therapy is administered. The gantry typically rotates around the patient, and specifically around the target (or, tumor), for radiation to be delivered from many angles so as to minimize damage to the healthy tissue in front of, and behind, the target.
In this photo the gantry is the large arm at the top, extending out towards you the viewer, where the technician is reaching up towards.
Tracy actually played Henry Drummond, who of course was closely based on Darrow.
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Ralph Morse got some amazing photos of NASA’s Saturn V rocket ascending at the outset of the Apollo 11 mission on July 16, 1969, including retraction of the gantry. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins were aboard, of course, and on their way to space-exploration immortality.
In the early years of its existence, the cable channel MTV began each hour with a short promotional video, which incorporated film footage of the launch of Apollo 11’s Saturn V rocket, and photographs of an Apollo astronaut on the moon with the American flag, on which the MTV logo had been superimposed. MTV Top of The Hour Rocket Launch (1981) - YouTube
