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"I was thinking how much my grandma would love to be here to watch history being made."

Denver Family Makes an Emotional Trip to Super Bowl City

This group of diehard Broncos fans traveled to California, even though they…

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Officially the games cost $2.2 billion, compared with an original estimate of $1.6 billion. Beijing also spent $40 billion on preparing its infrastructure and cleaning up the environment. But China’s secretive budgeting system makes it impossible to verify these figures. Chinese officials say the infrastructure had to be built anyway and that spending was in line with that of previous host cities. But the impression given was of little expense spared.

British Museum 

It’s #Superbowl day today, so we thought we’d share a superb owl from the collection.

This concerned-looking owl is painted onto a drinking vessel which was made in Attica in the 5th century BC.

Vessels like this one were regularly decorated with an owl, and are referred to as a ‘glaux’ – the Ancient Greek word for owl http://ow.ly/SHEU30qcURU

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It’s time for the big game! There isn’t much in the Museum’s collection related to American Football, so instead we’re playing ‪#‎SuperBowl‬ vs #SuperbOwl… Whose team are you on? http://ow.ly/XRmk8http://ow.ly/XRmia

Champs? The Saints, Dat’s Who 
By JUDY BATTISTA
reason to cheer, Champs?

The Saints, long associated with losing and disappointing their fans, defeated Peyton Manning and the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV and gave New Orleans a reason to cheer.




Edward Lear was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1812. His famous nonsense verse ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ was written for a friend’s three-year-old daughter and features ‘runcible spoon’, a phrase he invented. Do you know what that means? http://bitly.com/1H0qZ0K

Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets brought together a variety of nonsense writing, from alphabets and recipes, to botany, verses and stories. Lear was already well known for writing nonsense: his collection of illustrated limericks, A Book of Nonsense (1846), had been immediately popular, and Lear added further limericks to it over the years. ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’, shown here, is one of the best-loved of Lear’s verses and was written for three-year-old Janet Symonds, whose parents were friends of Lear.  

A feature of nonsense writing is the use of invented words and one of Lear’s most famous examples is the ‘runcible spoon’ used by the owl and the pussycat at their wedding feast. The word ‘runcible’ proved to be so popular that it has now moved from being a nonsense word to having a dictionary definition: a pickle fork with three prongs, one of which is sharp and curved for cutting.

- See more at: http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/nonsense-songs-stories-botany-and-alphabets-by-edward-lear#sthash.UwnbFN5s.dpuf





champ² (chămp) 
n. Informal
A champion.

spare

v., spared, spar·ing, spares. v.tr.

1. To refrain from treating harshly; treat mercifully or leniently.
2. To refrain from harming or destroying.
3. To save or relieve from experiencing or doing (something): spared herself the trouble of going.
4. To hold back from; withhold or avoid: spared no expense for the celebration.
5. To use with restraint: Don't spare the mustard.
6. To give or grant out of one's resources; afford: Can you spare ten minutes?

v.intr.

1. To be frugal.
2. To refrain from inflicting harm; be merciful or lenient.

adj., spar·er, spar·est.

1. 1. Kept in reserve: a spare part; a spare pair of sneakers.
   2. Being in excess of what is needed; extra. See synonyms at superfluous.
   3. Free for other use; unoccupied: spare time.
2. 1. Not lavish, abundant, or excessive: a spare diet.
   2. Lean and trim. See synonyms at lean².
3. Not profuse or copious.

n.

1. A replacement, especially a tire, reserved for future need.
2. Sports.
   1. The act of knocking down all ten pins with two successive rolls of a bowling ball.
   2. The score so made.

idiom:
to spare

1. In addition to what is needed: We paid our bills and had money to spare.