PNC Park is a baseball park located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is
the fifth home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League
Baseball franchise. It opened during the 2001 Major League Baseball
season, after the controlled implosion of the Pirates' previous home,
Three Rivers Stadium. The ballpark is named for locally based PNC
Financial Services, which purchased the naming rights in 1998. PNC Park
features a natural grass playing surface and seats 38,496 people for
baseball, which as of 2008, is the second-smallest capacity of any
Major League park. Funded in conjunction with Heinz Field, the
$216 million park stands along the Allegheny River, on the North Shore
of Pittsburgh with a view of Downtown Pittsburgh. Built in the style of
"classic" stadiums, such as Boston's Fenway Park, PNC Park also
introduced unique features, such as the use of limestone in the
building's facade. The park also features a riverside concourse, steel
truss work, an extensive out-of-town scoreboard, and many local
eateries. Since completion, PNC Park has been hailed as one of the best
ballparks in the country. PNC Park hosted the 2006 Major League
Baseball All-Star Game, the fifth MLB All-Star Game held in Pittsburgh.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1099:
The First Crusade concluded with the Battle of Ascalon and Fatimid
forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah retreating to Egypt.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ascalon>
1676:
Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed King Philip, the Wampanoag
war chief, ending King Philip's War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War>
1877:
American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos, the smaller of the
two moons of Mars.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_%28moon%29>
1883:
The last known Quagga, a subspecies of the Plains zebra, died at the
Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga>
1981:
The IBM Personal Computer , the original version and progenitor of the
IBM PC compatible hardware platform was introduced.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer>
2000:
The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and
sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
titubant (adj):
Stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/titubant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions
about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an
educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to
be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.
--Edith Hamilton
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