CenturyLink Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. The stadium was designed for both American football and soccer. It serves as the home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL) and Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer (MLS). Sounders FC have hosted and won two U.S. Open Cup championship matches at CenturyLink in 2010 and 2011, setting an attendance record for the tournament final each time. The venue also hosts concerts, trade shows, and consumer shows along with sporting events. Located within a mile (1.6 km) of Seattle's central business district, it is accessible by multiple freeways and forms of mass transit. It was built between 2000 and 2002 after voters approved funding for the construction in a statewide election. This vote created the Washington State Public Stadium Authority to oversee public ownership of the venue. CenturyLink Field is a modern facility with views of the skyline of Downtown Seattle and can seat 67,000 people.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1786:
Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat completed the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps, an act considered to be the birth of modern mountaineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc
1942:
Following a speech by Mohandas K. Gandhi, the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India Resolution, calling for the immediate independence of India from the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement
1969:
At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road
1988:
The 8888 Uprising, a series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party in Burma, began. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8888_Uprising
2010:
A massive mudslide of 1.8 million cubic metres (2,400,000 cu yd) of mud and rocks in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China, killed 1,471 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Gansu_mudslide
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
shuttlecock: (badminton) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton as a ball is used in other racquet games; a birdie. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shuttlecock
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes. --Henry Fairfield Osborn https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Fairfield_Osborn