The Sydney Roosters are a professional rugby league club based in the
Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. They play in the National Rugby
League and are one of the most successful clubs in Australian rugby
league, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League and National
Rugby League titles. The side holds the longest winning streak
(nineteen) and the second largest margin of victory (87–7) in league
history. The club was founded in 1908 in Paddington, Sydney, under the
name "Eastern Suburbs"; in 1994, the name was changed to the "Sydney
City Roosters", and in 2000 to just the "Sydney Roosters". The Bondi
Junction-based Roosters have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with
the South Sydney Rabbitohs from Redfern, who are, along with the
Sydney Roosters, the only remaining foundation club in the National
Rugby League.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Roosters
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1431:
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen,
France after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated
trial.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc)
1434:
Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were decisively defeated in
the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Wars)
1854:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories
of Nebraska and Kansas.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act)
1911:
The first Indianapolis 500 open-wheel automobile race was held at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, won by Ray Harroun
in a Marmon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_500)
1922:
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of
Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial)
1989:
Goddess of Democracy, a statue made mostly of polystyrene foam and
papier-mâché, was erected by student protestors in Tiananmen Square,
Beijing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy)
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Wikiquote of the day:
I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the
humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all
the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a
limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its
necessary condition and confirmation. -- Mikhail Bakunin
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin)
The Caspian expeditions of the Rus were military raids undertaken by
the Rus between 864 and 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores. Initially, the
Rus appeared in Serkland in the 9th century traveling as merchants
along the Volga trade route, selling furs, honey, and slaves. The
first small-scale raids took place in the late 9th and early 10th
century. The Rus undertook the first large-scale expedition in 913;
having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged Gorgan, the territory of
present day Azerbaijan, and the adjacent areas, taking slaves and
goods. On their return, the northern raiders were attacked and
defeated by Khazar Muslims in the Volga Delta, and those who escaped
were killed by the local tribes on the middle Volga. During their next
expedition in 943, the Rus captured Barda, the capital of Arran, in
the modern-day Azerbaijan. The Rus stayed there for several months,
killing many inhabitants of the city and amassing substantial plunder.
It was only an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus that forced them to
depart with their spoils. Sviatoslav, prince of Kiev, commanded the
next attack, which destroyed the Khazar state in 965. Sviatoslav's
campaign established the Rus's hold on the north-south trade routes,
helping to alter the demographics of the region. Raids continued
through the time period with the last Scandinavian attempt to
reestablish the route to the Caspian Sea taking place in 1041 by
Ingvar the Far-Travelled.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_expeditions_of_the_Rus
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1167:
A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch
and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 40,000-man Roman army.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Porzio)
1453:
Constantinople fell to the besieging Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed
II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople)
1660:
English Restoration: The monarchy in England was restored under King
Charles II on Oak Apple Day.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restoration)
1914:
The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence
River after colliding with the Storstad, killing 1,012 on board.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_Ireland)
1919:
Observations made by Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed
part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Stanley_Eddington)
1953:
New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and his sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay
became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay)
1999:
Olusegun Obasanjo took office as President of Nigeria, the first
elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of
military rule.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo)
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Wikiquote of the day:
The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not.
Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt,
and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of
everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as
the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who
generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to
persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a
hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make
them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them
that they are all the sons of God. -- G. K. Chesterton
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton)
Simeon I ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First
Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the
Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial
expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary
Eastern Europe. His reign was also a period of unmatched cultural
prosperity and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian
culture. During Simeon's rule, Bulgaria spread over a territory
between the Aegean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea, and the new
Bulgarian capital Preslav was said to rival Constantinople. The
newly-independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church became the first new
patriarchate besides the Pentarchy and Bulgarian Glagolitic
translations of Christian texts spread all over the Slavic world of
the time. Halfway through his reign, Simeon assumed the title of
Emperor (Tsar), having prior to that been styled Prince (Knyaz).
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Bulgaria
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1153:
Malcolm IV became King of Scotland at the age of twelve.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_IV_of_Scotland)
1860:
Expedition of the Thousand: Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts
launched their attack on Palermo, capital of the Two Sicilies.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_of_the_Thousand)
1919:
The flying boat NC-4 arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, becoming the first
fixed-wing aircraft to complete a transatlantic flight under its own
power.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-4)
1937:
The Golden Gate Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate
in California, was opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge)
1942:
Operation Anthropoid: Czech resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied
Prague ambushed and mortally wounded Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of
Reich Security Main Office and the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is
trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He
hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His
truth is marching on. -- Julia Ward Howe
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe)
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact
with both a cumulonimbus cloud base and the surface of the earth.
Tornadoes can come in many sizes, but are typically in the form of a
visible condensation funnel, with the narrow end touching the earth.
Often, a cloud of debris encircles the lower portion of the funnel.
Most tornadoes have winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) or less, are
approximately 250 feet (75 meters) across, and travel a few miles
(several kilometers) before dissipating. However, some tornadoes can
have winds of more than 300 mph (480 km/h), be more than a mile
(1.6 km) across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than
100 kilometers). Tornadoes have been observed on every continent
except Antarctica; however, most of the world's tornadoes occur in the
United States. Other areas which commonly experience tornadoes include
New Zealand, western and southeastern Australia, south-central Canada,
northwestern and central Europe, Italy, south-central and eastern
Asia, east-central South America, and Southern Africa.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1626:
Peter Minuit bought Manhattan in exchange for trade goods valued at 60
guilders.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Minuit)
1822:
Ecuadorian War of Independence: Troops led by Antonio José de Sucre
secured the independence of Quito from Spain in the Battle of
Pichincha.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pichincha)
1883:
The Brooklyn Bridge, at the time the longest suspension bridge in the
world, was opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge)
1941:
World War II: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British
battlecruiser HMS Hood in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood_(51))
1962:
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth
three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Carpenter)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of
nearly every other form of freedom. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo)
Jerusalem is Israel's capital, seat of government, and largest city,
both in terms of population and area, with 732,100 residents in an
area of 126 sq. km (49 sq. mi.). Located in the Judean Mountains
between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea, the city has a history
that goes back as far as the 4th millennium BCE. The walled area of
Jerusalem, which constituted the entire city until the 1860s, is now
called the Old City, and was added to the list of UNESCO World
Heritage Sites in 1982. The Old City is home to several sites of key
religious importance: the Temple Mount and its Western Wall for Jews,
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christians, and the Dome of the
Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque for Muslims. Modern Jerusalem has grown up
around the Old City, with its civic and cultural hub extending
westward toward the country's urban center in Gush Dan. Today,
Jerusalem remains a bone of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict: Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem (captured in the 1967
Six-Day War) has been particularly controversial, as there are
Palestinians who view this part of the city as the capital of a future
Palestinian state. Thus, the status of a united Jerusalem as Israel's
"eternal capital" has not been recognized by the United Nations and
much of the international community.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1430:
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was captured at the Siege of
Compiègne.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Compiègne)
1533:
The marriage of Henry VIII of England and his first wife Catherine of
Aragon was annulled.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon)
1568:
The Eighty Years' War broke out when Dutch rebels led by Louis of
Nassau invaded Friesland in the Battle of Heiligerlee.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years'_War)
1873:
The North West Mounted Police was established to bring law and order
to and assert Canadian sovereignty over in the Northwest Territories.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police)
1934:
American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and
killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde)
1945:
End of World War II in Europe: Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz was
captured and his Flensburg government was dissolved.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Dönitz)
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Wikiquote of the day:
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive
powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of
the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It
may appear as prophecy or as poesy. ... should these faculties have
free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of
joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. -- Margaret
Fuller
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller)
Mayan languages are a language family spoken in Mesoamerica and
northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken by at least 6
million indigenous Maya, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize.
The Mayan language family is one of the best documented and most
studied in the Americas. Modern Mayan languages descend from
Proto-Mayan, a language thought to have been spoken at least 5000
years ago; it has been partially reconstructed using the comparative
method. Mayan languages form part of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area,
an area of linguistic convergence developed throughout millennia of
interaction between the peoples of Mesoamerica. All Mayan languages
display the basic diagnostic traits of this linguistic area. During
the pre-Columbian era of Mesoamerican history, some Mayan languages
were written in the Maya hieroglyphic script. Its use was particularly
widespread during the Classic period of Maya civilization. The
surviving corpus of over 10,000 known individual Maya inscriptions on
buildings, monuments, pottery and bark-paper codices, combined with
the rich postcolonial literature in Mayan languages written in the
Latin alphabet, provides a basis for the modern understanding of
pre-Columbian history unparalleled in the Americas.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
John III Sobieski, elected by the szlachta, became the King of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_Sobieski)
1879:
War of the Pacific: Two Peruvian ironclads attempted to lift the
blockade of Iquique by Chilean battleships in the Battle of Iquique.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iquique)
1894:
The Manchester Ship Canal was officially opened, linking the city of
Manchester to the Irish Sea.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Ship_Canal)
1927:
Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh completed the first
solo non-stop transatlantic flight.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh)
1998:
Indonesian President Suharto resigned, ending a 32-year reign.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an
indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a
touch of divinity to matter. -- Charles Lindbergh
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh)
The Parliament Acts are two Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom,
passed in 1911 and 1949. They form part of the Constitution of the
United Kingdom. The first Parliament Act, the Parliament Act 1911,
asserted the supremacy of the House of Commons by limiting the
legislation blocking powers of the House of Lords—the suspensory veto.
Providing the provisions of the Act are met, legislation can be passed
without the approval of the House of Lords. Additionally, the 1911 Act
amended the Septennial Act to reduce the maximum permitted time
between general elections from seven years to five years. The first
Parliament Act was amended by the second Parliament Act, the
Parliament Act 1949, which further limited the power of the Lords by
reducing the time that they could delay bills, from two years to one.
The Parliament Acts have been used to pass legislation against the
wishes of the House of Lords on only seven occasions since 1911,
including the passing of the Parliament Act 1949. Doubts which had
existed in academic circles concerning the validity of the 1949 Act
were refuted in 2005 when members of the Countryside Alliance
unsuccessfully challenged the validity of the Hunting Act 2004 which
had been passed under the auspices of the Act.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Acts
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1536:
Anne Boleyn, the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII of
England, was beheaded for adultery at the Tower of London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn)
1643:
"The Great Condé" scored a decisive victory at the Battle of Rocroi in
the Thirty Years' War.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_II_de_Bourbon%2C_Prince_de_Condé)
1649:
The Rump Parliament passed an act to formally establish the
Commonwealth of England.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England)
1802:
The Légion d'honneur was first instituted by Napoléon Bonaparte, First
Consul of the French Republic.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Honor)
1922:
The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union was founded.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneer_organization_of_the_Soviet_Union)
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Wikiquote of the day:
With all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to
ours. Bring in the candles. -- Abraham Davenport
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Davenport)
Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in
Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and
Central Ohio residents as a non-sectarian institution, and is a member
of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges.
Wesleyan has always admitted students irrespective of religion or race
and maintained that the university "is forever to be conducted on the
most liberal principles." In this capacity, Wesleyan has espoused
internationalism and community activism. The 200-acre site is 20 miles
(45 km) north of Columbus, Ohio. It includes the main academic and
residential campus, the Perkins Observatory, and the Kraus Wilderness
Preserve. In 2005, Wesleyan had the ninth highest percentage of
international students among liberal arts colleges for the twelfth
straight year. U.S. News & World Report ranked Wesleyan 95th among
U.S. liberal arts colleges in its 2007 edition. Notable alumni include
former U.S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and Nobel Laureate
Frank Sherwood Rowland.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Wesleyan_University
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1268:
Baibars and his Mamluk forces captured Antioch, capital of the
crusader state, the Principality of Antioch.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baibars)
1896:
"Separate but equal": The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark
case Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding the legality of racial segregation
in public transportation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson)
1944:
World War II: Polish forces under Lieutenant General Władysław Anders
captured Monte Cassino and broke the Winter Line, a German defensive
line in Italy.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino)
1958:
The F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world
speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-104_Starfighter)
1980:
Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57 people in southern Washington
State and causing over a billion U.S. dollars in damages.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens)
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Wikiquote of the day:
The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct,
intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which
subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it
is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other
beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling
force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical
realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. -- Bertrand
Russell
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell)
35 mm film is the basic film gauge most commonly used for both still
photography and motion pictures, and remains relatively unchanged
since its introduction in 1892 by William Dickson and Thomas Edison,
using film stock supplied by George Eastman. The photographic film is
cut into strips 1 3/8 inches or 35 mm wide — hence the name. The
standard negative pulldown is four perforations per frame along both
edges, which makes for exactly 16 frames per foot. A wide variety of
largely proprietary gauges were used by the numerous different camera
and projection systems independently invented around the late 19th
century and early 20th century, ranging from 13 mm to 75 mm. 35 mm was
eventually recognized as the international standard gauge in 1909, and
has by far remained the dominant film gauge for both image origination
and projection. Despite threats both from smaller and larger gauges,
and novel formats, its longevity is largely because its size allows
for a relatively good tradeoff between the cost of the film stock and
the quality of the images captured. Since the beginning of the 21st
century, the manufacturing of 35 mm motion picture film has been a
duopoly between Eastman Kodak and Fujifilm.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35_mm_film
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1590:
Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen of Scotland in the abbey church at
Holyrood Palace.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark)
1792:
The New York Stock Exchange was formed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange)
1865:
The International Telecommunication Union, the world's oldest
international organization, was founded as the International Telegraph
Union in Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union)
1900:
Second Boer War: The Siege of Mafeking was lifted after 217 days.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking)
1943:
World War II: RAF Dam Busters successfully deployed bouncing bombs on
German dams in Operation Chastise.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._617_Squadron_RAF)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise)
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Wikiquote of the day:
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as
immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is
what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to
endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind
serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify
ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We
endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves.
Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death.
That is what it is. -- Henri Barbusse
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse)
Gilberto Silva is a Brazilian football player. He has played most of
his club football for the English club, Arsenal, as a defensive
midfielder. Gilberto was raised in a poor family, and as a child he
balanced playing football with various labouring jobs. He began his
football career in 1997 with América Mineiro, where good form earned
him a move to Atlético Mineiro in 2000. He became a star player for
Atlético, playing for three years in the Brazilian Campeonato
Brasileiro Série A. He came to particular prominence when he helped
the Brazilian national team win the 2002 FIFA World Cup, playing in
all seven of Brazil's matches. In August of 2002 he joined Arsenal for
£4.5 million, with whom he has won the 2004 FA Premier League, and two
FA Cup trophies. In his first five seasons with the club he played 208
games and scored 23 goals. On 19 August 2006 he scored Arsenal's first
ever competitive goal at the newly built Emirates Stadium. He was made
vice-captain of Arsenal in 2006 and is contracted to the club until
June 2009, after which he is expected to move back to Brazil.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto_Silva
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1204:
Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first
Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I_of_Constantinople)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire)
1811:
Peninsular War: An allied force of British, Spanish, and Portuguese
defeated the French Army at the Battle of Albuera.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Albuera)
1866:
Root beer was first prepared commercially.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_beer)
1929:
The first Academy Awards were handed out at the Hollywood Roosevelt
Hotel in Los Angeles.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award)
1943:
World War II: SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop (pictured) put an end to
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first mass uprising in Poland against
the Nazi occupation during the Holocaust.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising)
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Wikiquote of the day:
The universe is flux, life is opinion. -- Marcus Aurelius
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius)