At the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933–1934, Sinclair sponsored a dinosaur exhibit meant to point out the putative correlation between the formation of petroleum deposits and the time of dinosaurs, now a largely discredited misconception. The exhibit included a two-ton animated model of a brontosaurus.
World’s Fairs are now called "Expo"s starting with Expo 67 in Montreal.
“Expo” was chosen by Montreal because it works in both English and French.
It was part of the celebration of Canada’s centennial.
(I was there!)
In 1958, the Speaker of the Canadian Senate, Senator Mark Drouin, suggested during his speech at the Brussels Exhibition that Canada should host a World Exhibition to celebrate its centennial in 1967, and this gave birth to the idea of Montréal hosting Expo 67. Expo 67 is considered to be the most successful World’s Fair of the 20th century.
(And I was there too!)
The Montreal Expos were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal, Quebec. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They played in the National League (NL) East Division from 1969 until 2004. Following the 2004 season, the franchise relocated to Washington, D.C., and became the Washington Nationals.
Jackie Robinson’s first gamed as a black player in organized baseball was in Monteal, playing for the minor league Montreal Royals, a year before joining the Brooklyn Dodger in 1947. Fifty years later, a similar landmark would be reached in Canada, when Violet Palmer became the first female to officiate a major professional sports league game, an NBA game in Vancouver.
The children’s book In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson was written by Bette Bao Lord. It is a fictionalized version of her family’s immigration story, focusing on a young girl, Shirley Temple Wong, who moves to Brooklyn in the late 1940s and becomes a baseball fan.
British amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey’s older brother was His Grace the Duke of Denver, accused of murder in Dorothy L. Sayers’s 1926 novel Clouds of Witness.
In non-canonical writings, Sayers indicated that she believed that the Viscount St. George, the Duke’s son and heir, was killed in WWII and Lord Peter would succeed to the dukedom.
A duchy is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess. Other than Cornwall and Lancaster, British royal dukedoms are titular and do not include land holdings. Non-royal dukedoms are associated with ducal property, but this is meant as the duke’s private property, with no other feudal privileges attached.
Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula of the island of Great Britain. The furthest south-western point of the island (Land’s End) and the southernmost point (Lizard Point) are both located in Cornwall.
John O’Groats in Scotland is the northernmost point of Great Britain.
In “The Nine Tailors”, a Wimsey murder involving church bells, one of the bells is inscribed:
"From Land’s End to John O’Groats,
There is no bell that can better my note."
Edgar Allen Poe was wounded for writing “The Bells,” and murdered for writing “The Raven.” A note found by the latter crime scene said “NEVERMORE that, you shitting poet.”
Crap! I thought this was the false trivia thread!
In play: Phil Ochs released a musical version of Poe’s The Bells/.
“Whispering Bells” was the second-greatest hit of the Del-Vikings, best known for their doo-wop classic “Come Go With Me”. The group originally met while serving in the US Air Force, and was notable for getting radio air time despite being racially integrated.
In Super Bowl XI. the Minnesota Vikings became the first team to lose 4 Super Bowls.
In Super Bowl XXIV, the Denver Broncos became the second team to lose 4 Super Bowls.
In Super Bowl XXVIII, the Buffalo Bills became the third team to lose 4 Super Bowls.
In Super Bowl XLVI, the New England Patriots became the fourth team to lose 4 Super Bowls.
In Super Bowl XLVIII, the Denver Broncos became the first team to lose 5 Super Bowls. They have the most losses. Those other teams have the second most.
The only quarterback other than Tom Brady to take the Patriots to the Super Bowl was Tony Eason, in SB XX against Corch Ditka, Da Fridge, and da resta Da Bears.
In Super Bowl XX, for the Patriots, Tony Eason went 0/6 in passes completed and attempted. Steve Grogan was 17/30. The only other Patriots player to attempt passes in any Super Bowl, besides them and Brady, is Drew Bledsoe.
The Patriots coach that year, the only one other than Bill Belichick to take the Pats to the Super Bowl, was Ray Perkins, who was best known as John Unitas’ most reliable receiver with their great Baltimore Colts teams.
You meant Raymond Berry, not Ray Perkins in SB 20. And then Bill Parcells coached them in SB 31.