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Pat Gallagher

Super Bowl 50 For San Francisco Bay Area

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2016

December 3, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Super Bowl 50 will be played February 7, 2016 at Levi’s Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is fitting as the first ever Super Bowl was held in California on January 15, 1967, when the Packers beat the Chiefs at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The NFL will kick off Super Bowl 50 festivities in the Bay Area by hosting participating teams in primetime at Super Bowl … [Read more...] about Super Bowl 50 For San Francisco Bay Area

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Irish writer and playwright George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the Nobel prize money of £7,000 on this day in 1926. After nomination for the award for literature a year prior, Shaw at first wanted to turn down the Nobel Prize because he had no desire for accolades. However, he accepted on his wife’s request, because she believed it was a tribute to Ireland. He still rejected the monetary award, saying “I can forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.” He instead requested that the £7,000 be used to finance the translation of Swedish books into English.

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