Past inspirations for the Google Doodle include Sir Isaac Newton, the composer Stravinsky and the children's television series Sesame Street.
At the top, St Helens could have been four points clear heading into Easter, but their surprise defeat to Hull Kingston Rovers, their first of the season, sets things up nicely for the game of the weekend.
"We have accepted these complaints and have started with the investigation," its spokesperson Isaac Mangena said.
It would also give a major fillip to the city's 10-year plan to deliver 7,500 new jobs, something that Steven Bayes, a Labour councillor, believes would be a "tipping point" for Hull, as most of the positions would be created in the service sector and require little training.
The poem will be celebrated next month in a 200-mile onboard performance between Hull and London, involving scores of actors, 200 miles of track, eight towns and cities, recordings of some of the poet's beloved jazz tunes, and the voice of actor Bill Nighy reading his work over the train's Tannoy.
Raising such sums in current circumstances is recognised as the principal challenge by the academics, led by Prof Andy Gouldson of the University of Leeds which collaborates in the Centre for Low Carbon Futures with the universities of York (co-authors of the report), Hull and Sheffield.
The fixture list, however, is not kind to them before their final match with Hull City, with Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea to play in the next couple of months.
Two goals within a minute to Isaac Smith broke the visitors' resistance and when Jonathan Ceglar scored within 25 seconds of the third getting underway the writing was on the wall.
@WeAreMotivation Isaac specialises in developing peer training schemes for organisations that provide support to disabled people in sub-Saharan Africa, and engaging key stakeholders to support their work.
"From Hell, Hull and Halifax, good Lord deliver us," pleaded a 17th-century verse that helped colour Britain's view of the city for the next four centuries.
Of course, Hull could roll out its own big guns.
