The 1962 AFL Championship game was the longest in US pro football history, with the Dallas Texans defeating the Houston Oilers 20-17 in two overtimes and a total game time of 77:54. The next year, the Texans, unable to compete with the Dallas Cowboys despite far more success, moved to Kansas City to become the Chiefs.
Air Force One both landed and took off from Love Field in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One by U.S. District Judge Sarah Hughes.
John F. Kennedy’s younger brother Edward (Ted) was expelled from Harvard College in 1951 for paying another student to take his Spanish final.
Bill Murray was expelled from Regis College in Denver, Colorado in 1971 after being caught in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport trying to smuggle 9 pounds of marijuana from Canada.
(His Wikipedia entry makes it sound like he dropped out first and then atttempted the smuggling, but most sources agree the arrest led to his expulsion. But even if the former is true, the word “college” makes this a valid play if nothing)
Bob Dylan’s Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 was about (and probably recorded under the influence of) marijuana. The association with the numbers 12 and 35 is unclear. Dylan supposedly claimed that a mother and daughter aged 35 and 12 walked into his studio one rainy day. Others insist that the product 12*35 = 420 is the key. :smack:
Song lyric by Simon and Garfunkel:
I knew a man, his brain was so small,
He couldn’t think of nothing at all.
He’s not the same as you and me.
He doesn’t dig poetry. He’s so unhip that
When you say Dylan, he thinks you’re talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was.
The man ain’t got no culture,
But it’s alright, ma,
Everybody must get stoned.
The oldest record for an athletic event (or, rather, fad) is for flagpole sitting, where Simon Stylites, who spent 37 years on a pillar in the fifth century.
In the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece, athletes would work out and compete naked. :eek:
Because they competed naked, Greek footracers would pierce the foreskin and thread a small cord through the piercing and wrapped around their waist to keep their penis from flapping during the race.
The echidna has a four-headed penis.
Echidna was half woman and half snake and gave birth to many of the monsters in Greek mythology. She was the flesh-eating daughter of Gaia and Tartarus.
The term sarcophagus comes from the Greek for “flesh eater.”
In the Book of Revelation, one of the references to Jesus is that he is “the Alpha and the Omega”, the first and the last letters in the Greek alphabet; figuratively, that he encompasses all, he is the beginning and the end.
In astronomy, the brightest star in a constellation is referred to as alpha + the Latin genitive of the constellation’s name, e.g., alpha Orionis. Second brightest is beta, third is gamma, and so on. When the letters of the Greek alphabet are exhausted, numbers are used instead.
Phi Beta Kappa, founded at William & Mary in 1776 is the first fraternal organization to use Greek letter to identify itself. ΦΒΚ (PBK) represent the first letters of their motto: Philosophia Biou Kybernētēs (Learning/Philosophy is the Guide of Life).
Pi Sigma Alpha (ΠΣΑ), the national honor society of the US Political Science Association, was founded in 1920 at the University of Texas for the purpose of bringing together students and faculty interested in the study of government and politics.
Union College in Schenectady is known as the “mother of fraternities” because six national fraternities were founded there: Kappa Alpha (1825), Sigma Phi (1827), Delta Phi (1827), Psi Upsilon (1833), Chi Psi (1841), and Theta Delta Chi (1847). Kappa Alpha Society* is the oldest undergraduate fraternity that is still in existence today.
*Not to be confused with the Kappa Alpha Order.
Sigma is the symbol of the icon used to sum in Excel, which makes more sense than the fact the default beginning of time for Excel is January 1, 1930.*
*Anyone who’s tried making a list of dates prior to 20th century knows what I’m talking about.
Upper case sigma is the mathematical symbol for Sum (as in Excel), and lower case sigma is the mathematical symbol for Standard Deviation.
Sigma 7 was the name given to the spacecraft piloted by Wally Schirra in the third orbital mission of the Project Mercury space program.