Lynn Swann was one of the most graceful wide receivers in the game. While growing up he took dance lessons for fourteen years, mostly tap and jazz, and also some ballet.
Lynn was rare as a girls name before 1920, but by the 50s, it became more common among girls than boys. It is no longer in the top 1,000 given names for either gender. Lynn dropped out of the top 500 among girls in 1985, and among boys in 1973.
Former MLB center fielder Fred Lynn was the first player ever to win Rookie of the Year (ROY) and MVP in the same season. He did it with the Boston Red Sox in 1975. There has only been one other ROY and MVP season: right fielder Ichiro Suzuki with the Seattle Mariners in 2001.
Suzuki 鈴木 is the second most common surname in Japan, slightly behind Sato, the most common. Kurt Suzuki was the first American-born MLB player of Japanese ancestry.
During the 14th century, Lynn, a town in Norfolk, ranked as England’s most important port. It was considered as vital to England during the Middle Ages as Liverpool was during the Industrial Revolution.
The town was later named Bishop’s Lynn, and since the reign of Henry VIII, as King’s Lynn.
Looks to me like a ninja.
A novel music teaching method, begun in the mid-20th century and called “Talent Education” (才能教育 sainō kyōiku), was modeled after theories of natural language acquisition when it was observed that young children easily learned their native languages at very early ages, even for languages typically deemed difficult. It was believed that every child, if properly taught, was capable of a high level of musical achievement. It was also made clear that the goal of such musical education was to raise generations of children with “noble hearts” (as opposed to creating famous musical prodigies).
The new approach was pioneered with the violin, with the idea that preschool age children could learn to play the violin if the learning steps were small enough and the instrument was scaled down to fit their body.
The new approach was developed by Sinichi Suzuki (1898-1998, he lived 99 years), and it is called the Suzuki Method.
Comment: I learned the violin in elementary school (not preschool) in the 1960s using the Suzuki Method.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki is generally known as the person who introduced the western world to Buddhism, with a series of books beginning in 1923. In 1963, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace prize, at the age of 93.
There have been 870 individuals and 23 unique organizations that have received the Nobel Prize in total. Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes - the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.
Sinclair Lewis (1930) was the first U.S. author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Toni Morrison (1993) is the most recent.
Harry Sinclair formed Sinclair Oil in 1916 from the assets of 11 small petroleum companies. Sinclair grew to become the seventh largest oil company in the United States. An iconic large green apatosaurus (not brontosaurus) has been the logo for Sinclair Oil and for Sinclair gas stations. The public affectionately named him “Dino.”
I seem to remember my Dad telling me Fred Flintstone bought his gas at Sinclair when I was a kid, and that was why a little green dinosaur hung out at the gas station.
The iconic Citgo sign visible from inside Boston’s Fenway Park was changed to Citgo in 1965. It was originally a Cities Service gas sign, which was rebranded as Citgo in 1965. Early photographs of Fenway Park show the flying red horse, the logo of Mobilgas, at that location in the early years of the famous ballpark.
The Mobilgas sign at Fenway Park.
The Fens, sometimes called Back Bay Fens, is a parkland and urban wild in Boston that gives its name to the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood, and thereby to Fenway Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed, among many many others:
- NY NY: Central Park
- NY NY: Riverside Park, and Riverside Drive
- Queens NY: Forest Park
- Buffalo NY: the Buffalo parks system
- Niagara Falls NY: Niagara Falls State Park
- Saratoga Springs NY: Congress Park
- Washington DC: the US Capitol grounds
- Montreal QC: Mount Royal Park
- St. Catharines ON: Montebello Park
- West Hartford CT: Elizabeth Park
- several college campuses, including Yale, Tufts, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Wellesley, Trinity (Hartford), Cornell, Smith, and Washington University in STL MO.
Added: Olmsted Point in Yosemite National Park is named after him and his son, Frederick Law Olmsted, jr.
Olmstead is the nickname for a three volume collection of decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dealing with Canadian constitutional law. It was published by the federal Department of Justice in the 1950s, after the abolition of Canadian appeals to the JCPC. Olmstead was the Justice lawyer who edited the collection.
The California Department of Justice maintains a list of guns approved for sale in CA. All California residents must buy guns only listed at the CA DOJ site, http://certguns.doj.ca.gov/. There are currently 765 guns from 40 different manufacturers on this list.
The **Justice **League is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. It’s membership has changed many times over the years, but it’s initial seven members were Aquaman, Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern, the Martian Manhunter, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a movie released this year directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred. This movie is the first time Superman and Batman meet in a cinematic format. Before Gal Gadot was cast as Wonder Woman, Olga Kurylenko was considered for the role.
There has been a Attorney General of the United States since the earliest days of the republic, but he (now she) did not head a Department of Justice until one was created in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War.
The father of President William Howard Taft, Alphonso Taft from Vermont, was Attorney General in 1876-1877.
Not much is known about the early history of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, another Lancastrian commander; the chronicles mention little about him until the Battle of Losecoat Field. His father, the previous earl and a loyal Lancastrian, was executed for a failed plot to assassinate Edward IV. (Again, from today’s featured Wikipedia article.)