Portman Road is an association football stadium in Ipswich, Suffolk,
England. It has been the home ground of Ipswich Town Football Club since
1884. The stadium has also hosted many England youth international
matches, and one senior England international exhibition game, against
Croatia in 2003. It has staged several other sporting events, including
athletics meetings and international field hockey matches. In addition,
musical concerts and Christian events have been held at the ground. The
stadium underwent significant redevelopments in the early 2000s, which
increased the capacity from 22,600 to a current figure of 30,311, making
it the largest capacity football ground in East Anglia. Each of its four
stands have since been converted to all-seater (eliminating standing-
room only tickets), following the recommendations of the Taylor Report.
Also located at the ground are conference and banqueting facilities, the
Sir Bobby Robson Suite, and Legends Bar.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portman_Road>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1707:
The last recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji released some
800 million m3 of volcanic ash.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dei_eruption_of_Mount_Fuji>
1773:
To prevent the unloading of tea that was taxed without their
consent under the Tea Act, a group of colonists destroyed it by throwing
it into Boston Harbor (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party>
1850:
The Canterbury Pilgrims aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane
arrived to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_Association>
1918:
Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet
Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1918%E2%80%9319)>
1997:
"Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television
series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
adermatoglyphia:
1. The rare congenital absence of epidermal ridges (fingerprints).
2. The autosomally dominant genetic disorder which causes this condition.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adermatoglyphia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable
limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its
ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more
widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants
crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but
have they conquered it — for what do their countless colonies know of
it, or of each other? So it will be with us as we spread out from Earth,
loosening the bonds of kinship and understanding, hearing faint and
belated rumors at second — or third — or thousandth hand of an ever
dwindling fraction of the entire human race. Though the Earth will try
to keep in touch with her children, in the end all the efforts of her
archivists and historians will be defeated by time and distance, and the
sheer bulk of material. For the numbers of distinct human societies or
nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than
the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present
time. We have left the realm of comprehension in our vain effort to
grasp the scale of the universe; so it must ever be, sooner rather than
later.
--Arthur C. Clarke
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke>