The San Francisco Giants won World Series Championships in 2010, 2012, and 2014.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won their last World Series Championship decades ago, several decades ago, in 1988.
In the 2017 World Series the Los Angeles Dodgers lost a tight and closely-fought battle, in 7 games, to the Houston Astros.
Faithful is a book co-written by Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan. It chronicles exchanges between King and O’Nan about the Red Sox’s 2004 season, beginning with an e-mail in summer 2003, and throughout the 2004 season, from Spring Training to the 100th World Series, which they won for the first time since 1918!
1918 was the beginning of the Spanish Flu, and the end of the First World War. The flu killed at least five times as many people as did the war.
Despite the success of the instrumental version by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, the song Spanish Flea originally had some pretty cool lyrics.
Spanish fly is an emerald-green beetle, found mainly in Southern Europe. It and other such species were used in preparations offered by traditional apothecaries, as it secrets a chemical known as Cantharidin, which in small doses is called Spanish Fly and is considered an aphrodisiac. In larger quantities is it a burn agent and poison.
Samuel Tilley was an apothecary, a premier of New Brunswick, and a Father of Confederation.
He is credited with suggesting that Canada be called a “Dominion” after the British government rejected John A. Macdonald’s proposal that Canada be termed a “Kingdom”. (The Brits were wary of Macdonald’s proposal because they thought it would upset the Yankees. Damn Yankees. 
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The term “Dominion” is used in the Psalms and is the origin of Canada’s national motto, “A mari usque ad mare” - " and they shall have dominion ‘from sea unto sea’."
Dylan Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published, including “And death shall have no dominion”. The title comes from St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans, 6:9.
Dylan is a Welsh name. It means “son of the sea.”
The Welsh heraldic symbol, a red dragon, is not represented on the coat of arms of the British monarch. Instead, the three golden lions of England are represented twice, the red lion of Scotland once (except in Scotland, where it appears twice), and the golden harp of Ireland once.
Over 600 pubs in the UK are named Red Lion.
Only one boy in 400 shares the most common given name, Sarawut, in Thailand. No other name is shared by more than one in 800 boys. Of surnames, 81% are unique, so the chances that two Thais will have the same name are very close to zero. Girls names are duplicated a little more often, with one in 200 named Ploy’
The Kingdom of Thailand, which officially changed its name from the Kingdom of Siam in 1939, is the 20th-most-populous country in the world, with about 69 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bangkok, which has a population of over 8 million people.
One Night In Bangkok is a song sung by Murray Head that went to #3 on the US charts in 1985. It was originally from the album and subsequent musical “Chess”.
Murray State University (MSU) is a four-year public university located in Murray, Kentucky. Located in front of Pogue Library on the Murray State campus is a tree with many pairs of shoes nailed to the trunk. The tradition is that if a couple gets married after meeting at Murray State, they return to the Quad and each one nails a shoe to the “Shoe Tree.” If the couple has a baby, the baby’s shoes are then sometimes also nailed to the tree
James Stewart, Second Earl of Moray, was murdered in 1592 by a group under the command of George Gordon, Sixth Earl of Huntly. The murder, commemorated in the folk ballad “The Bonny Earl of Murray”, was a result of a power struggle of the two leading families in the Northeast of Scotland. Essayist Sylvia Wright’s mishearing of the ballad’s 4th line, “they have slain the Earl o’Murray / and laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen”, led to the use of the term “mondegreen” for misheard lyrics.
James Stewart was an up-and-coming British actor of the 1940s. To prevent confusion with a well-known Hollywood actor of the time, he adopted the name Stewart Granger professionally.
On AMC’s current and active list of The 50 Greatest Actors of All Time, James Stewart ranks 4th behind Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, and Tom Hanks. In the USAF, Stewart rose to the rank of Brigadier General to become the highest-ranking actor in military history.
Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda won an extremely well deserved Emmy for their song Z"Bigger" which was performed by Neil Patrick Harris to open the 2013 Tony Awards ceremony, and included the following rap in the middle:
At the end of the day we are gathered together to honor the best and the brightest.
And tomorrow the fashion police will report on your dress and who wore it the tightest.
If you win, have the time of your life.
Tell your manager, dad, and your mom, “Thanks.”
Say hi to your kids and your husband or wife.
Maybe just for the hell of it, Tom Hanks!
Nothing is bigger and better than seeing a veteran get an ovation or seeing a brilliant beginner freak out on a win for their first nomination.
There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere sitting there, living for Tony performances singin’ and flippin’ along with the Pippins and Wickeds and Kinkys, Matildas and Mormonses.
So we might reassure that kid and do something to spur that kid.
Cause I promise you all of us up here tonight.
We were that kid.
Bob Fosse was the only director to win a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy in the same year (1973). He won two Tonys (direction and choreography) for Pippin, an Oscar for Cabaret and an Emmy for “Liza with a Z.”
Roy Scheider, perhaps best known for his role as Chief Brody in Jaws, played a driven, Bob Fosse-like Broadway powerhouse in the 1979 movie All That Jazz. He died in Little Rock, Ark. in Feb. 2008 while receiving cancer treatment.