The Dewey Decimal number for “Return of the Straight Dope” is 031.02.
Rather than the decimal counting system, many languages of Papua New Guinea use a septemvigesimal system of counting (i.e. base 27) in which numbers are associated with a body-part tally-system, typically starting at the little finger of one hand, continuing across the body and face, and ending at the little finger of the other hand. Eight languages, including Oksapmin and Telefol use a base of 27 names of parts.
The fire that destroyed the ancient Palace of Westminster, where Parliament sat, was started by the burning of several centuries worth of tally sticks from the Exchequer in the furnaces of the Palace.
The annual Westminster Kennel Club show is held at Madison Square Garden in NYC.
Voltaire’s Candide ends with the famous line mais il faut cultiver notre jardin (“we must cultivate our garden”), which, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocates a more practical philosophy of life.
Leonard Nimoy’s final tweet read “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”
The old Boston Garden, torn down in 1998 and replaced by the Fleet Center (now the TD Garden), was originally named the Boston Madison Square Garden. It was famous for its wooden parquet flooring for basketball games, which was a revered part of Boston Celtics lore.
On 05 April 1968 singer James Brown gave a notable and impromptu performance in Boston Garden. That was the day after Martin Luther King, jr was assassinated.
The majority of the seats in TD Garden would have been outside the walls of the old Garden, whose site is now a forsaken parking lot next door.
Boston Garden was the first arena to host the Stanley Cup Final and NBA Finals at the same time in 1957. It occurred again in 1958 and 1974.
The Toronto Maple Leafs, once one of the leading hockey teams in Canada, has not won the Stanley Cup since 1967, the Centennial year.
All indications are they may not be in contention until 2067, the Bicentennial Year.
Pamela Anderson of “Baywatch” and similar booby-bouncing dreck was Canada’s Centennial Baby, the first child born in Canada on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Confederation. Her first break in show biz was at a BC Lions game in her home of Vancouver, where she was shown on the BC Place stadium video wearing a tight-fitting Labatt’s T-shirt to the crowd’s roaring approval.
Last season, the BC Lions had a “guaranteed win” night when Saskatchewan came to play. The Lions management said that if they didn’t win, everyone in the stands would get a free ticket to another game in the regular season.
It was an expensive promotion, as Saskatchewan won, 20-16, and the Lions were on the hook for 33,196 free tickets.
Off-game: I’m having trouble with the suggestion that Pam Anderson was the first baby born in Canada on July 1, 1967, if only because she was born in BC, which is the last time zone in Canada.
Even if she was born at 12.01 am on July 1, BC time, that would have been 1.01 am in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 2.01 am in Manitoba, 3.01 am in Ontario and Quebec, 4.01 am in the Maritimes, and 4.31 am in Newfoundland. That’s ample time for at least one baby to have been born somewhere in Canada on July 1 before her.
I appreciate that this statement is in her wiki bio, with a link to a reputable news source, [cough] Fox, but I think it may be a fact that was true for her local town, or maybe BC, but hard to believe for all of Canada.
Mmmm … boobies …
Oh, wait, back to the game: One of the two newest clubs in Major League Soccer is the Orlando City Lions, who sold out the Citrus Bowl for their home opener against the other MLS expansion side, New York City Football Club. Orlando City played in the top minor league in the US, the USL, for several years before the owners gained admittance into the top league. NYCFC was founded directly as an MLS franchise by its owners, England’s Manchester City football club. The game ended in a 1-1 draw as Orlando hero Kaka, once the top player in the world with AC Milan and Real Madrid, scored on a penalty kick in extra time.
Four current NFL teams have never appeared in a Super Bowl, including franchise relocations and renaming: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1964) and Lions (1957) had won NFL championship games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl.
Of the nine franchises in the CFL, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have the longest Grey Cup drought, having last won the Cup in 1990.
Every year, the Saskatchewan Roughriders do their best to assist their eastern neighbour to extend this record. 
The most recent MLB World Series in which neither team had won a championship in 30+ seasons was in 2010 when the San Francisco Giants (55 season drought) defeated the Texas Rangers (49 season drought - since their franchise began) 4 games to 1.
A long-told tale of the Texas Rangers law-enforcement agency is that the mayor of a small town telegraphed the Rangers, asking for a squad to be sent to put down a riot. The mayor greeted the train when it arrived from Austin, and a single Ranger stepped out. “Where are the rest of your men?” the mayor asked.
“You only have one riot, don’t you?” the officer replied.
The “riot act” was an actual law in the UK that required that crowds disperse immediately of face arrest. The law had to actually be read to the crowd, hence “reading the riot act.” The actual text was “Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King!”
In one case, the act was rendered void because the sheriff reading it left out the last four words.
The Riot Act has been carried forward in Canada as s. 67 of the Criminal Code, which includes the current wording of the proclamation which is to be read to the mob.
If the rioters do not disperse within 30 minutes of the reading of the proclamation, they are potentially guilty of an indictable offence carrying life imprisonment as a maximum sentence.
Oops. Meant to add the link to the wording of the proclamation: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-22.html