Stocksbridge Park Steels Football Club is an English association football club based in the Stocksbridge area of Sheffield. They currently compete in the Northern Premier League Division One South East. The club was formed in 1986 from the merger of Stocksbridge Works, the works team of the local British Steel Corporation plant, with Oxley Park Sports. Sporting a yellow and blue home kit, they play at the Bracken Moor ground. They initially played in the Northern Counties East League, progressing through its divisions. They won promotion to Division One of the Northern Premier League in 1996, and reached its Premier Division in 2009, but were relegated back to Division One South in 2014. Due to league re-organisation, they now play in Division One South East. Steels have participated in the FA Cup every year since 1992, reaching the 4th qualifying round in 2003, and first entered the FA Trophy in 1996 after previously participating in the FA Vase.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1821:
The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_the_Mexican_Empire
1928:
Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
1975:
An attempted robbery of the Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, went wrong, becoming a six-day hostage situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_House_siege
2009:
A protest held by 50,000 people in Conakry, Guinea, was forcefully disrupted by the military junta, resulting in at least 157 deaths and over 1,200 injuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Guinea_protest
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Uranian: 1. (comparable, literary, poetic) Celestial, heavenly; uranic. 2. (comparable, literary, archaic) Homosexual; (specifically) relating to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys; pederastic; also, of poetry: conveying appreciation for young men. 3. (not comparable, Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite Urania, the heavenly aspect of Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus: heavenly, spiritual, as contrasted with the earthly aspect of Aphrodite Pandemos. 4. (not comparable, Greek mythology, dated) Relating to Urania, the Muse of astronomy. 5. (not comparable, by extension, historical, rare) Of or pertaining to astronomy; astronomical. [...] 6. (not comparable, astronomy) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Uranian
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The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort. The superior man thinks of the sanctions of law; the small man thinks of favors which he may receive. --Confucius (孔子 · Kongzi) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius