Paper currency first came into use in ancient China, when merchants found that they were unable to continue to carry all of their money, all coins, because they were simply too heavy. In the 600s, the first circulating paper money came into use due to a copper shortage that made it impossible to mint new coins.
In 1943, due to wartime copper shortages, the US Mint made pennies out of steel.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowls.
The super bowl of the Arecibo Observatory, at 305 meters in diameter, is the largest focusing dish on Earth.
New Orleans has hosted the most Super Bowls, with 7.
Andrew Jackson’s forces won a decisive victory over British forces at the Battle of New Orleans in 1814. Ironically, the war had already been concluded by the Treaty of Ghent.
Johnny Horton’s song, The Battle of New Orleans was released in 1959. Horton was killed in 1960 in a head-on crash with a drunk driver. At the time, he was married to Billie Jean Jones, the widow of Hank Williams, Sr.
The Battle of New Orleans was a 1959 #1 hit on both the pop and country charts in for Johnny Horton and won him a Grammy for Best Country & Western Recording. In 1953, Horton had married Billie Jean Jones, widow of Hank Williams; in 1960 he was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver.
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Horton the elephant hatched an egg that had been abandoned by a lazy mother bird named Mayzie.
Horton Plaza is a shopping mall in San Diego’s “Gaslamp Quarter”.
San Diego’s Balboa Park has a theater modeled on William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Rocky Balboa is the boxer played by Sylvester Stallone in 6 movies from 1976 to 2006. Stallone was the writer of the first film, which won 3 Oscars.
The Mission San Diego de Alcala was the southernmost stop on El Camino Real, aka the Mission Trail, in California.
Father Junipero Serra, the founder of the Mission San Diego de Alcala, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988
Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega.
John Travolta played Vincent Vega in the movie Pulp Fiction.
Vincent Van Gogh was played by Kirk Douglas in “Lust for Life.”
The Iggy Pop tune “Lust for Life” was used in a cruise line commercial.
So was Kathy Lee Gifford’s “If They Could See Me Now”.
Kathy Lee Crosby played a non-powered Wonder Woman in a 1974 TV movie.