Quiz: What professional sport is nicknamed “ The Beautiful Game”? (hint: not in the U.S.)

Yesterday’s Question answered below: What does it mean to have a holistic approach to something?
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History for 4/14/2024
Birthdays: King Phillip III of Spain, Christian Huygens, Arnold Toynbee, Sir John Gielgud, Menachem Schneerson- the Grand Rabbi of Chabad, Papa Doc Duvalier- Haitian dictator 1907, Robert Doisneau, Rod Steiger, Loretta Lynn, Morton Sobotnick, Frank Serpico, Pete Rose, Julie Christie, Kenneth Mars, Anthony Michael Hall, Steve Martin is 73, Sarah Michelle Geller is 46, Adrien Brody is 50. Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo

69AD- Battle of Bedriacum- After the death of Nero, several Roman generals turned their legions around and marched to Rome. In this battle General Otho was killed by the Gaulic Legions of Aulus Vitellius. He would soon be killed by Vespasian and his son Titus.

73A.D. MASADA- After the great Jewish revolt against Rome was crushed by Titus and Jerusalem destroyed, two legions remained behind to do mopping up. A group of zealots, Essene rabbis and their families held out in a mountaintop stronghold for two years in an epic siege.
The night before the Zealots realized the Roman siege engines were about to breach their walls. They resolved to not be taken alive. This day soldiers of the Tenth Legion Felix broke into the quiet works. They found 960 corpses. The Jews had preferred mass suicide to slavery. They killed their families, and then themselves.
Contrary to modern sensibilities, the Romans were not horrified by the ghastly scene. Greco-Roman ethics considered suicide a rational way out of a bad situation. They expressed grudging admiration of their Jewish foes. The reason we know anything about this incident was because a Jewish turncoat named Flavius Josephus wrote about it in his history. The Masada fortress was discovered by archaeologists in 1947.

1471- Battle of Barnet- During the chaos of the English War of the Roses, the Earl of Warwick became a power player in the shifting sides. He was nicknamed The Kingmaker. He finally overplayed his hand. This day Warwick the Kingmaker was killed in battle by King Edward IV.
The angry king had Warwick’s dead carcass brought to London and displayed naked on the steps of St, Paul’s Cathedral.

1543- Explorer Bartolomeo Ferrelo returned to Spain with news of a big new harbor he discovered on the Pacific coast of California that he named for his patron, Saint Francis- San Francisco Bay.

1758- RHINOMANIA- In India, Clara the Rhinoceros was adopted as a baby by two Dutch tradesmen, after hunters killed her mother. Despite her fierce-looking appearance, she was quite tame and gentle. In 1741 they brought Clara to Europe. No one had ever seen a live Rhinoceros, and she quickly became famous. They toured Clara through the capitols of Europe. She met Frederick the Great, Maria Theresa, Louis XV and Madame de la Pompadour and King George II. Painters and artisans made images of her, and King Louis XV named a new battleship the Rhinoceros. This day she died in graceful retirement at age 20 in Lambeth Palace, London.

1777- During the American Revolution, British loyalist counterfeiters with a printing press on board the HMS Phoenix stationed in New York Harbor, began to make phony Continental money to undermine the Yankee economy. The Continental dollar became so worthless that “Not worth a Continental” was a favorite phrase.

1789- George Washington learned that he had been elected first president of the United States. He had just been turned down for a bank loan. The electors told him he had won overwhelmingly over John Adams and John Hancock.
The first election also produced the first sore-losers. John Hancock, who was the leader of Congress all through the Revolution, and had that really big signature, was so disgusted he lost, that when Washington paid an official visit to his home state of Massachusetts, Hancock snubbed him. John Adams was annoyed about being only Vice President of a country he felt he invented, under a man he felt he created. He was the one who first suggested the big Virginian with the bad teeth lead the army.
John Adams hoped his position of Vice President would evolve powers not unlike an English Prime Minister, the real power, with the President just a ceremonial figurehead. But Washington's annoyance with Adams ensured he, and consequentially all future vice presidents, would have little or nothing to do.

1828- The first edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary published. In the 70.000 entries Webster made it a political point to separate American English from the King’s English by substituting Spanish roots for words in the place of Norman French roots. This is when “Colour” became “Color”, Theatre and Centre became Theater and Center, and Cheque became Check.

1865- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATED- Well known actor John Wilkes Booth shot the President in the back of the head as he watched the play "Our American Cousin". Lincoln had seen the play several times and knew most of the lines by heart. Booth also knew the play, and timed his shot to the loudest laughline in the script. Booth leapt onto the stage and shouting something. It may have been” Sic Semper Tyrannus-And thus with Tyrants” the motto of the State of Virginia, or “The South is Avenged”. In 2019 a letter from an eyewitness was discovered that said Booth yelled both things.
That same night Booths accomplice Lewis Paine stabbed Secretary of State William Seward in his bed. When Seward’s son tried to stop him, Paine broke his skull and ran out into the street shouting "I am Mad!" Another man named George Atzenrodt was supposed to kill the Vice President but he lost his nerve and did nothing.

In the box with the Lincolns were a Major Henry Rathbone and his fiance' Miss Clara Harris. Lincoln had asked General & Mrs. Grant to join them at first but the Grant's declined. Nellie Grant didn’t like Mary Lincoln. Anyhow, to Clara Harris this was a pretty lousy first date, watching the president get a bullet in the brain, her dress splattered with Major Rathbone's blood from being slashed with a knife and seeing Mrs. Lincoln go insane, but she married Rathbone anyway. Rathbone was never the same man. Ten years later while living as ambassador to the German city of Hanover, Rathbone murdered Clara, and for the rest of his life was confined in an asylum for the criminally insane.

1871- Canada set its currency in dollars and cents, instead of pounds and shillings.

1883- Leopold Delibes’ opera Lakme premiered in Paris.

1906- The Azusa Street Church opened. Rev William Seymour began the first Pentecostal-Charismatic Church, a movement that spread around the world.

1910- At a baseball game in Washington, William Howard Taft becomes the first President to throw out the season's first ball.

1912- RMS TITANIC SINKS- At 11:40PM The unsinkable luxury liner going too fast and 14 miles off course struck an iceberg and by 2:40AM went down, taking millionaires and immigrants alike. As the stricken liner sank, the cruiser SS Californian watched a short distance away. They could have saved more people, but their radioman had gone to bed, and they thought the emergency flares lighting up the night sky were party skyrockets. No one was saved until the SS Carpathia arrived on the scene at dawn.
A strange fact is in 1898 a writer named Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility, in which an 880 ft luxury liner sank on her maiden voyage in the month of April. The fictitious ship was named the Titan.

1925- WGN broadcasts its first regular season baseball game. Quinn Ryan behind the mike as Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Cubs defeated the Pirates on Opening Day, 8-2.

1927- The first Volvo automobile rolled off the assembly line in Goteborg Sweden.

1930- Russian poet Vladimir Mayakowsky shot himself. This was convenient for Stalin because Mayakowsky had grown disillusioned with the Soviet regime. Stalin made a great public spectacle of his funeral.

1931- In Spain socialists, progressives and anarchists united to drive out the King Alphonso XIII. They proclaimed the Second Spanish Republic. Salud Republica!

1935- THE DUST BOWL - The drought conditions and over-farming in the plains states had been building for years, but this storm climaxed the decade long event. On this day a big dust storm struck Cimarron County Oklahoma. It blacked out the sun over five states. Cattle choked, calves and children disappeared in the drifts. Not even weeds would grow in it. The dust got through cracks in houses and when you awoke in the morning the only clean spot on your pillow was where your head lay.
After this storm the migration of farmers rose until the estimate was 40% of the populations of the drought stricken areas. People from Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Texas and Missouri piled all their belongings onto their jalopies, and took Route 66 to California. They were called 'the Oakies, and their plight was dramatized in the songs of Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.

1956- In Redwood City, Cal. Charles Ginsburg, Ray Dolby and Charles Anderson demonstrated the first videotape recording machine. They were going then for a mere $75,000 each.

1960- The musical Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway.

1962- Bob Dylan recorded “Blowing in the Wind”.

1963- Beatle George Harrison was impressed by an unsigned rock band he just heard called the Rolling Stones.

1969- Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day won the Oscar for best Animated Short.

1969- The first regular season baseball game played outside the United States. The Montreal Expos play their first home game, treating 29,184 fans at Jarry Park to an 8-7 win over the St Louis Cardinals. Speaking about Expo fans, Cub announcer Harry Carrey noted: "They discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is English.”

1986- President Reagan ordered U.S. military places bomb Libya in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in a nightclub in West Germany. 15 civilians were killed including a son of Libyan President Mohamar Kaddafi.

1994- The cable channel TCM (Turner Classic Movies) premiered this day. Host Robert Osbourne introduced Gone With The Wind.

2005- Baseball returned to Washington D.C., 34 years after the Washington Senators left to Texas, the Washington Nationals played their first game.

2008- Ollie Johnston, the last animator of Walt Disney’s original Nine Old Men, passed away at age 96.
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Yesterday’s Question: What does it mean to have a holistic approach to something?

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