Tom Brady just won his fourth Super Bowl. He is the third starting quarterback to win four Super Bowls. The other two are Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana. There have been seven starting quarterbacks to win back-to-back Super Bowls. In order they are: Bart Starr, Bob Griese, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana, Troy Aikman, John Elway, and Tom Brady. Bradshaw did it twice. Only two starting quarterbacks have won three Super Bowls in four years: Troy Aikman and Tom Brady. Two starting quarterbacks have started three consecutive Super Bowls: Bob Griese and Jim Kelly. Kelly is the only starting quarterback to start four consecutive Super Bowls. John Elway is the only starting quarterback to have lost back-to-back Super Bowls and also to have won back-to-back Super Bowls.
At the 2012 World Lawn Bowls Championships held in Adelaide, the singles and fours were won by Australia, with the pairs and triples going to Scotland.
A bronze statue of Queen Adelaide (Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline)) stands in the foyer of the Town Hall in Adelaide, South Australia.
William, Duke of Clarence, never expected to become king and did not marry, preferring his mistress, actress Dorothea Jordan, instead. He was the father of at least 10 of her 14 children. She died before he became king (though they were already separated) and he married the much younger Adelaide to have legitimate issue; they had two daughters, but both died in infancy so the throne went to his niece Victoria. David Cameron is a direct descendant of William IV and “Mrs.” Jordan.
Before he became king, William of Clarence was in financial difficulties. He sent a letter to Mrs Jordan, hinting that he would have to cut back on her allowance.
She responded by sending him a playbill from a theatre, with the phrase “No refunds after rise of curtain” circled.
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She responded by sending him a playbill from a theatre, with the phrase “No refunds after rise of curtain” circled.
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An in-joke in It’s a Wonderful Life- Jimmy Stewart’s character George Bailey runs past the Bijou Theater which is playing Bells of St. Mary’s, a movie featuring Henry Travers in a major role; Travers played the angel Clarence Odbury in IaWL.
The Travers Stakes at Saratoga Springs, NY, is the oldest stakes race in the US, first run in 1864.
Despite his key role in helping win the Battle of Saratoga for the Continental Army, no monument there now mentions Benedict Arnold by name, due to his later treachery.
Saratoga is a residential south-eastern suburb of the Central Coast region of NSW.
The area was first exploited by European settlers for citrus orchards; in recent years, however, housing development has transformed most of Saratoga into an outer residential suburb of Gosford. It is bordered on three sides by water.
The USS Saratoga and Lexington, both named after key battles of the American Revolution, were the first large aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy. They were originally intended to be battlecruisers.
In the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Pirates of Penzance, Major-General Stanley refers to the well-known work The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Creasy when he boasts that he is able to:
Major-General Stanley, although a key character in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, is never given a first name.
William Gilbert was knighted on 15 July 1907 in recognition of his contributions to drama.
Several years later, on 29 May 1911, Gilbert was giving a swimming lesson to two young women in the lake of his house at Grim’s Dyke. One of the women get into difficulty and Gilbert went to her aid, causing him to die of a heart attack.
The inscription on Gilbert’s memorial on the south wall of the Thames Embankment in London reads: “His Foe was Folly, and his Weapon Wit”.
When actress Melissa Gilbert was 31 she gave birth to a boy. She and her husband, actor Bruce Boxleitner, named their son Michael, after actor and Little House on the Prairie co-star Michael Landon. Landon had died of pancreatic cancer four years prior.
Robert I, King of the Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329, was nicknamed “the Bruce” from his father, Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale.
His daughter Marjorie married Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland. Their son Robert II was the first Scots king of the House of Stewart.
Actor James Stewart was born in Pennsylvania. The same actor James Stewart was born in Indiana. He was actually born in the town of Indiana, Pennsylvania. It is near Pittsburgh.
When her husband’s brother in law King James IV of Scotland (from the House of Stewart) was killed at the Battle of Flodden the queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, was a few miles south in full maternity armor. She was acting as regent for her husband, Henry VIII, who was on campaign in France. She sent Henry a piece of James Stewart’s bloody shirt. The child she was carrying would, sadly for her, be one of her several stillbirths.
When Republican politicians in post-Civil War America reminded voters of the Democratic Party’s role in secession and rebellion, it was said to be “waving the bloody shirt.” On the Presidential level, at least, it largely worked; no Democrat was elected President between 1864 and 1912 other than Grover Cleveland of New York.
For a long time in the UK, the word “bloody” and “bleeding” as an intensifier has a taboo status akin to an obscenity. It was something of a scandal when in Pygmalion, Shaw had Eliza say “Not bloody likely.” No one is entirely sure why, and the speculation about it being a reference to menstrual blood has been refuted.
The Roman poet Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, tells the story of the Cypriot sculptor Pygmalion who carved a woman out of ivory and then proceeded to fall in love with his statue. He made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite and, on returning home, found that the statue had come to life.