The University of California at Davis is the only school in the University of California system that has an equestrian polo team.
Water polo was originated as a form of rugby played in rivers and lakes in England and Scotland. William Wilson is the person who developed the rules of water polo in the nineteenth century. Prince William was the captain of his water polo team at St Andrew’s University.Water polo was considered a brutal game for women, until they start playing it in the 1950s. Water polo was introduced in the Olympics in 1990. The first time women water polo was included at the Olympics was in year 2000.
Water polo was an Olympic sport long before 1990.
One famous contest was Hungary v USSR, 1956.
The USSR had recently invaded Hungary and suppressed the recent anti-Communist revolution there.
It is said the pool where the game was played became red with blood, and several of the players were
certainly bloodied
Sorry that was a typo on my part. It should have said 1900 :smack: Trivia fail
Among the oft-quoted lines from William Ernest Henley’s poem “Invictus” is “My head is bloody, but unbowed.” Nelson Mandela found great comfort in the poem during his long years of political imprisonment on Robben Island.
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Coney Island (which is only a peninsula, not an island) was named for the rabbits who used to live there in large numbers.
Joey Chesnut is the new champion of the Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest, staged every July 4 on Coney Island, having beaten the records of the former star, Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi. Not to mention bringing the championship of eating back to its proper home country. 
In The West Wing episode “Debate Night”, Leo McGarry has to deal with the Kundunese ambassador while the president’s preparing for the debate. The Sultan of Kundu is trying to commit genocide against an entire tribe of people.
The ambassador says that he understands President Bartlet’s desire to avoid war on the eve of an election, and Leo starts laughing. “You really think the president’s worried that if we invaded Kundu, he would lose votes in this country? To sweep all 50 states, the president would only have to do two things: Blow the Sultan’s brains out in the middle of Times Square and then walk across the street to Nathan’s and buy a hot dog!”
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs was founded by a Polish immigrant, Nathan Handwerker. He started his business in 1916 with a small hot dog stand in Coney Island, New York. He sold hot dogs that were based on a recipe developed by his wife, Ida.
Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated Charles Evans Hughes when he ran for reelection in 1916. The story goes that Hughes turned in early, confident of having won, but then the California returns came in. A reporter called the Hughes residence seeking comment, to be told by a butler, “The President has retired for the evening.” The reporter replied, “Yeah, well, when he wakes up, tell him he ain’t President no more.”
In 1937 Howard Hughes, flying his Hughes H-1 Racer, set the transcontinental airspeed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles CA to Newark NJ in 7 hours, 28 minutes. His average ground speed over the flight was 322mph.
Howard the Duck was a surrealistic comic book by Steve Gerber, which showed the adventures of Howard – from a parallel dimension of ducks – in Cleveland in our world, running up against weird characters like the Kidney Lady, Dr. Bong, and Kiss (the rock group). The comic book was extremely well regarded, spawning a daily strip, and copies of Howard the Duck #1 were going for $80 in their heyday.
Then, George Lucas made a movie. . . .
In George Lucas’s movie Star Wars - James Earl Jones - who did the voice of Darth Vader was paid $7,000.
The Earl of Grantham is a key figure in the TV drama Downton Abbey. There were historic earls of Grantham, but that particular noble title is now defunct.
King James went into a never-explained panic upon the 24 June 1604 death of the Earl of Oxford, arresting Henry Wriothesley Earl Southampton and seizing his papers.
In that same year, Supernova 1604, also known as Kepler’s Supernova, Kepler’s Nova or Kepler’s Star, was a supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the most recent supernova to have been unquestionably observed by the naked eye in our own galaxy, occurring no farther than 6 kiloparsecs or about 20,000 light-years from Earth.
Visible to the naked eye, Kepler’s Star was brighter at its peak than any other star in the night sky, and all the planets other than Venus, with apparent magnitude −2.5. It was visible during the day for over three weeks.
The supernova was first observed in northern Italy on October 9, 1604. Johannes Kepler began observing it in Prague on October 17. It was named after Kepler because his observations tracked the object for an entire year.
Some cultures have called the Milky Way “the backbone of night.”
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At our Solar System’s location in the Milky Way Galaxy, we rotate around the galaxy’s center roughly once every 200 million years.
The chocolate bar called the Milky Way Bar in the US is sold as the Mars Bar in other countries. The non-US Milky Way bar is very similar to the US-version Three Musketeers bar.