Baltimore Ravens defensive safety Bernard Pollard played all but one play of Super Bowl XLVII with six broken ribs.
Edgar Allan Poe became instantly famous for his poem “The Raven”, though he was paid only $9 for its publication.
Poe’s short story *Ligeia *describes the title character has having “raven-black” hair.
The protagonists in the short story, “The Nine Mile Walk,” solve a murder from one overheard sentence: “A nine mile walk is no joke, especially in the rain.”
Nine Mile Beach is a popular bathing spot near Belmont, about 20 km south of Newcastle.
Edgar Allan Poe and August Belmont are among the ghosts allegedly encountered on the Ghosts of New York Company’s East Village tour.
The Great East Window of York Minster contains the greatest expanse of mediaeval stained glass in the world.
York Minister lost the fight to be the re-burial site for Richard III’s remains, which will be re-interred next March at Leicester Cathedral.
The York Dukes lost their playoff game to Elkhorn, 27-23, last night, ending their hopes of winning the Nebraska high school football championship. They finished he season with a record of 7-3. York is 144 km. from Elkhorn high school, wihc is in Omaha.
In the mid-19th century, workers from Scotland came to Yorkshire, England in search of work in cotton and woolen mills and brought with them several different varieties of small terriers. The breeding of the popular Yorkshire terrier was accomplished by these Scottish workers.
Scottish National Party, which advocates secession from the UK was formed in…London.
A revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS is hitting London’s Palladium Theatre on December 6, 2014. Now and Forever, indeed.
Odysseus and Diomedes stole the palladium from Troy. Deprived of its protection, Troy later fell to the Greeks.
Sierra Leone issued the first palladium coins in 1966. The current value of Palladium is $789 per ounce, about 65.6% of the value of gold. Palladium has industrial use in the catalytic converters of motor vehicles.
The Dick Van Dyke Show ran from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966.
Jerry Van Dyke turned down the role of Gilligan on Gilligan’s Island because he thought it was “the worst thing” he had ever read. In addition, he was offered to join the cast of The Andy Griffith Show in 1965, when Don Knotts left the show, but he declined. Instead, he chose to do My Mother the Car (1965).
Theodore Roosevelt watched his mother die from typhoid fever then went upstairs in his home to watch his wife die from child birth an hour later. The future president was 25 years old, and wrote in his diary “The light has gone out of my life”.
Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama are the only two Presidents of the United States to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Theodore Roosevelt is the only President to have won the Medal of Honor.
The hymn Gloria, laus et honor (“All glory, laud and honour”) was written by Theodulf of Orléans in 820. It’s an old favourite and we sang it this morning for the feast of Christ the King.
A glory is an optical phenomenon that resembles a halo about the shadow of the observer’s head. The scientific explanation is still the subject of debates and research.