The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 until 1963, most famously as the home of the New York baseball Giants.
The original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876 and demolished in 1889, was built for the sport of polo. Bounded on the south and north by 110th and 112th Streets and on the east and west by Fifth and Sixth (Lenox) Avenues, just north of Central Park, it was converted to a baseball stadium when leased by the New York Metropolitans in 1880.
The last sporting event at the Polo Grounds was a football game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills on December 14, 1963.
In 1909, the first modern night baseball game was played at Cincinnati’s Palace of the Fans, where five steel light towers had been installed for the sporting event. The game, between teams from two local Elks lodges, drew about 3,000 curious fans, including some members of the Reds, who remained after their afternoon contest. In the fall of 1911, Palace of the Fans’ stands burned down, and the Reds set about building Crosley Field on the same spot. Crosley Field then became the site of the first major league night game, 26 years later.
The first modern night game between two MLB teams was at Crosley Field in 1935, on the 24th of May. The Cincinnati Reds ballparks according to the club’s official site were/are:
1869-1870: Union Grounds
1876-1879: Avenue Grounds
1894-1901: League Park
1902-1922: Palace of the Fans
1912-1970: Crosley Field
1970-2002: Riverfront Stadium
2003-(now): Great American Ball Park
The center field stands at Riverfront Stadium were demolished to make way for the construction of Great American Ball Park on an overlapping site, while the team continued to play there (it was then called Cinergy Field). The lowermost seat sections were movable to reconfigure the field for the Cincinnati Bengals football team.
The name “Bengal” can be traced back at leat 3,000 years, as the name of the region and its peoples in south Asia. It survives today in the name of West Bengal State in India, and Bandladesh. The Bengali Language ranks seventh in the world, with over a half billion speakers. Ouside India, the word is most commonly recognized with reference to the Bengal Tiger, hence the name of the Cincinnati Bengals footballl team.
Two current NFL teams have never (ever) won a league championship:
Cincinnati Bengals
Atlanta Falcons
The above have never won a Super Bowl, of course, and neither have the below but these have won a league championship of some sort:
Minnesota Vikings: 1969 NFL
Buffalo Bills: 1965 AFL
San Diego Chargers: 1963 AFL
Tennessee Titans: 1961 AFL, as the Houston Oilers
Philadelphia Eagles: 1960 NFL
Arizona Cardinals: 1947 NFL, as the Chicago Cardinals
Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. The series began on September 9, 2009, and has been collected into 18 volumes as of December 2015. It is set in a world where humanity lives inside cities surrounded by enormous walls; a defense against the Titans, gigantic humanoids that eat humans seemingly without reason.
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is the only natural satellite known to have a stable atmosphere, and it is the only object other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
The surface of the ocean is one of several parts of the pelagic zone, referred to as “epipelagic”, in which sunlight penetrates. Beneath the pelagic zone, there is the benthic zone, the actual seabed occupied by non-swimming creatures, and the demersal zone, home to swimming organisms that depend on the seabed.
The average depth of our oceans is 12,400’. On 01 June 2009, flight Air France 447, an Airbus A330 flight frm Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. It was found almost two years later at a depth of 13,000’, so, at roughly near the average ocean depth.
Lafayette, California is about 25 miles east of San Francisco. In 2012 its household median income was $150,000 which was more than 2X the statewide average, and almost 3X the nationwide average.
In Lafayette, CA it is against the law to spit on the ground within 5 feet of another person.
Porpoise Spit was the name of the fictional Queensland town in the classic Australian film *Muriel’s Wedding, *starring Toni Collette. Location filming was done in Coolangatta.
The new republic of Ghana adopted the name of the old Ghana Empire, in the western Sahel, which never expanded as far south as the present-day Ghana. After about 15 centuries of dominance in West Africa, the Ghana Empire had become fully Islamic by the 12th centiury.