The Green Bay Packers are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, starting play in 1919. They are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games are played at Lambeau Field, named after Coach Earl “Curly” Lambeau.
Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $500 ($6,800 today) for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor, and the Packer name remains to this day.
It is believed that when humans evolved into an erect species without fur, original straight hair was replaced by curly hair to better protect the top of the head from UV light from the overhead sun in tropical climates.
The Cowper’s Gland, or Bulbourethral gland, is either of two pea-shaped glands in males at the beginning of the internal portion of the penis; they add fluids to semen during the process of ejaculation and their secretions also neutralize the acidity in the urethra from remnants of urine resting in the urethra. The Cowper’s glands are located beneath the prostate gland.
Clergy of the Episcopal Church (the American offshoot of the Church of England) could only be males until the church changed its rules in 1976. Now there are many female Episcopal clergy, include Katherine Jefferts Schori, who just concluded her term as Presiding Bishop (the equivalent of an archbishop in other Anglican churches).
The Johannes Gutenberg Bible, a copy of the Latin Vulgate, was printed in the 1450s. 48 copies are known to exist today. Of those 48, 12 are printed on vellum. The rest are paper. Of those 12, only 4 are complete copies of the Old and New Testament, and Apocrypha. Of those 4 complete vellum copies, only 2 are in the United States. 1 is in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the other is in the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. Henry E. Huntington was the nephew of Collis Porter Huntington who, along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, were the “Big Four” of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in the fall of 1885. Earlier that year, the CPR had played a major role in the suppression of the North-West Rebellion by shipping troops out from eastern Canada.
The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey is one of the longest running marine biological monitoring programmes in the world. Started in 1931 by Sir Alister Hardy, the CPR has provided marine scientists with their only measure of plankton communities on a pan-oceanic scale. Nearly 500 phyto- and zooplankton taxa have been identified on CPR samples since 1948.
Effective CPR that is provided by a random bystander immediately after someone has sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival…
…however, only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander.
Chief Wilson, of the 1912 Pittsburgh Pirates, still holds the record for the most triples hit in a baseball season, with 36. Few players since then have hit even half that many. There are few accounts, but it is suspected that Wilson never stopped at second, and invariably headed for third on an extra base hit. He hit only 19 doubles that year, and if thrown out at third, would be credited with a double. Two years later, Detroit’s Sam Crawford might have employed a similar strategy, hitting a next-best 26 triples, and only 22 doubles.
Justice Bertha Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Scotland, she had a soft Scottish burr as she asked her probing questions. After her retirement, she revealed that some of her brethren on the Bench refused to speak to her except on court business, presumably because they disapproved of a woman “taking a man’s job” on the SCC.
Salmon P. Chase, Republican of Ohio, appointed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to lead the U.S. Supreme Court, was the first “Chief Justice of the United States.” All of his successors have held that title; all of his predecessors were designated “Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
When it opened in 1937, the first person to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel to Manhattan was Omero Catan. He was also the first to cross the George Washington Bridge when it opened in 1931, the first to use the 8th avenue subway when it opened the next year, and the first to skate in Rockefeller Plaza in 1936.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Bowdoin College professor when he took a leave of absence to join the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry, leading it to glory on Little Round Top at the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. He won the Medal of Honor. After the Civil War he served as Governor of Maine, then returned to Bowdoin, eventually becoming its president and teaching every subject in the curriculum except mathematics.
John Studebaker, who was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, got his start in industry when he went to California during the gold rush. He found most mining jobs already filled, so he started making wheelbarrows for the mine workers. Studebaker remained a major producer of automobiles through the first half of the 20th century.