The very first Super Bowl, Super Bowl I, was played on January 15, 1967. Super Bowl XXXIV was played on January 30, 2000. Since Super Bowl XXXVI, every Super Bowl has been played in February, on the first Sunday of the month.
The Roman month Februarius (from which we get our month February) was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual *Februa *held on February 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman calendar.
Correction: Since Super Bowl XXXVIII (not XXXIV), every Super Bowl has been played in February, on the first Sunday of the month.
The first Super Bowl played in February was Super Bowl XXXVI on 03 February 2002. The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams 20-17 thanks to Adam Vinatieri’s late field goal. For Super Bowls I-XXXVII, all were played in January except for Super Bowl XXXVI.
King Louis IX of France, who later became Saint Louis, was famous both for his domestic accomplishments and for his Crusades against Islam. At one point he was captured and paid a ransom of 400,000 livres tournois – a huge sum. He eventually died in Tunis, of dysentery.
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… excepting of course His Majesty.
The Los Angeles Rams lost Super Bowl XIV to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-19. After moving to St. Louis, the Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV, 23-16 over the Tennessee Titans.
In many ancient Indo-European cultures, including the Vedic Aryans and the proto-Iranians of Sintashta, rams were sacrificed for the priest function, horses for the warrior function, and cattle or sheep for the economic function. In other Indo-European cultures other animals might be substituted – for example cattle for the warrior function when horses were not available, with pigs or sheep for the economic function – but the tripartite nature of ritual sacrifices was generally maintained.
The Denver Broncos (horse) will be playing in their eighth Super Bowl today. They so far have won two, and lost five. For quarterbacks in their five losses, Craig Morton lost the first one, and then John Elway lost the next four. John Elway is currently the General Manager and Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Broncos.
n 2014, the **Morton **Salt Girl was voted into the Advertising Week Walk of Fame on Madison Avenue in New York City; it is the first girl icon to be inducted.
The Morton Sale slogan “When it rains it pours”, with the girl with an umbrellas, was based on the tendency of salt to clump together into lumps in humid weather, which was a household annoyance overcome by Morton’s processing. So when it rained, the salt still poured from the container. This was done by adding magnesium carbonate to the salt, begun in 1911.
The President of the United States in 1911 was William Howard Taft, Republican of Ohio. The following year, seeking reelection, he would be defeated by both Woodrow Wilson, Democrat of New Jersey, and Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive of New York, the worst showing by an incumbent President in a three-way race in U.S. history.
William Howard Taft was the only US Solictor General and Governor General (of the Philippines) to become US President.
William Howard Taft is the only person to have presided over both the executive and judicial branches of the United States federal government.
The city of Taft, California, was renamed for President William Howard Taft, after it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt. Its original name was Moron, a word that did not yet have connotations it has today, but it was thought confusingly similar to Morro Bay, so a new name was sought. The only American city named for a president who served after Taft is Coolidge, Arizona.
President Calvin Coolidge’s wife Grace had a pet raccoon. She also had a dog, who featured in her glamorous official White House portrait: Grace Coolidge - Wikipedia
Cartoonist Bill Watterson was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, whose suburban Midwestern United States setting was part of the inspiration for Calvin and Hobbes. when he was in the 4th grade he wrote a letter to Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz. Schulz wrote back, much to Watterson’s surprise, and it made a big impression on him.
Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679), was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy. He is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy and political science.
In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy.
There is a Very Small Array inferometer telescople located at the South Pole. In 2001 The team of astronomers there announced the most detailed measurements of the power spectrum of the Cosmic microwave background. These results contained the first detection of the 2nd and 3rd acoustic peaks in the CMB, which were important evidence for inflation theory.
The South Pole Highway is an almost 1,000-mile-long road in Antarctica that links the United States’s McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station at the geographic south pole, the southernmost place on earth. It was constructed by leveling snow and filling in crevasses, but is not paved; flags mark its route.
The Scotties are the Canadian Women’s Curling championship, held every spring. The tournament takes its name from its major sponsor, the Scott paper towel company. The winning team goes on to represent Canada in the Curling World Cup, which will be held this year in Swift Current Saskatchewan.