The last member of the New York Giants (Willie Mays) and the last member of the Brooklyn Dodgers (Bob Aspromonte) both finished their playing careers with the New York Mets.
On 03 January 1965 Joe Willie Namath signed a contractfor the then-astounding salary of $400,000 with the New York Jets of the American Football League. Compare that to QB contracts of today, such as Aaron Rodgers’ $110 million contract for an average annual salary of $22 million.
A 2007 on-field interview of a drunken Joe Namath with ESPN’s Bonnie Bernstein during a Jets game became infamous for him saying “I couldn’t care less about the team strugg-a-ling” and “I really want to kiss you right now”. The incident did shame Joe into going into alcohol rehab.
In 1999, Lisa Edelstein (House M.D) played a College Basketball Analyst named Bonnie Bernstein on the ABC show Sports Night.
The show was written by Aaron Sorkin, who would go on to write The West Wing.
Lisa Edelstein and fellow Sports Night alums Felicity Huffman, Joshua Molina, Teri Polo, Timothy Davis-Reed, Ron Ostro and Jeff Mooring all had recurring roles on The West Wing.
Broadway legend Joshua Logan was from Texarkana, Arkansas, but was a born Texan. Everyone from Texarkana is a born Texan, because there is no hospital nor clinic in Texarkana Arkansas that has a maternity ward. Miller County, Arkansas, with 43,000 inhabitants, has no births. Proud Arkansans are quick to point out that defect in their lineage.
mea culpa.
Lisa played a character named Bobbi Bernstein.
The phrase “mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa” has appeared in the confession of sins in the Latin version of the Roman Catholic mass since sometime in the 16th century.
That was in 2003, and it was Suzy Kolber.
Nothing significant happened in the year 2003 BC. The last year in which nothing significant happened was 1445, according to this compendium of historical dates:
The last year-long drought of nothing happening came after Nov 28, 1444 - Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag.
The legend that King George III wrote in his diary “Nothing of importance happened today” on July 4, 1776 turns out to be a myth. It may have been inspired by King Louis XVI writing “Rien” in his own diary on July 14, 1789, the day of the storming of the Bastille, but he was only referring to an unsuccessful day of hunting.
After undoing centuries of the male before female rule in inheriting the monarchy, the first heir to the UK throne under the first-born rule was Prince George of Cambridge.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge did not bring the young Prince George with them on their current visit to the United States.
The Austin Cambridge was a popular car in the UK from 1954 - 69, produced as a counterpart to its sibling the Morris Oxford, which first appeared in 1913.
The FBI ranked Austin Texas as the second safest major city in the U.S. for the year 2012
The FBI is descended from the Bureau of Investigation, founded in 1908 by US Attorney General Charles Bonaparte, grandson of Emperor Napoleon’s brother Jerome.
When Eugenia Charles was elected prime minister of Dominica in 1980, she became the first woman elected as head of state in the Americas. She served for 15 years, the longest continuous term of any elected woman head of state in history. She precipitated the US invasion of Grenada, by asking President Reagan to intervene.
Christopher Columbus named the island of Dominica after the day of the week on which he spotted it. In Latin, Sunday is Dominica.
Christopher Columbus ’ name in Spanish is spelled Colon, but that is not the orogin if the words colony, colonial, or colonization. The similarity is coincidental. The Romans used the Latin word coloonia for people who were settling new lands. In modern Spanish, the word colonia refers to an urban district on the outskirts of city, similar to the English word suburb.
The Chevrolet Suburban was first introduced in 1936. Picture of a 1936 Chevy Suburban. The Suburban is currently in its 11th generation (since 2007).
George Washington was an 11th-generation descendant of William Bonville, who received several elevations for his able service to Kings Henry V and VI, becoming High Sheriff of Devon, Seneschal of Aquitaine, Governor of Exeter Castle, etc. He was summoned to Parliament as “Willelmo Bonville domino Bonville et de Chuton”, by which he is held to have become Lord Bonville. On 8 February 1461, although he’d switched to the Yorkist side in the War of the Roses the year before, he was nominated to the Order of the Garter. He kept personal guard over the person of King Henry VI (then a prisoner of the Yorkists) to ensure his safety during the Second Battle of St Albans.
The Lancastrians were victorious at that Battle and King Henry VI gained his freedom; he promised immunity to Bonville and his other guard, Sir Thomas Kyriel.
However the Queen, Margaret of Anjou, had a grudge against Bonville and ordered his immediate beheading. It is alleged that she put the men on trial and had her seven-year old son, Prince Edward, preside as judge. “Fair son”, Margaret inquired, “what death shall these knights die?” The boy allegedly replied that they were to have their heads cut off, an act which was swiftly carried out, despite the King’s pleas for mercy.