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Trevor Linden (born 1970) is a retired Canadian professional ice
hockey player. He played centre and right wing with four different
teams: the Vancouver Canucks (in two stints), New York Islanders,
Montreal Canadiens, and Washington Capitals. In addition to appearing
in two NHL All-Star Games, Linden was a member of the 1998 Canadian
Olympic team and participated in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
Throughout his career, Linden has been recognized as a respected leader
on and off the ice. He was named captain of the Canucks at the age of
21, making him one of the youngest captains in league history. While
captaining the Canucks, Linden led the team to within a game of winning
the Stanley Cup in 1994. It was during this time that he began to be
called Captain Canuck. In 1998 he was elected President of the National
Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), a position he held for
eight years. As President, he played an instrumental role in the
2004–05 NHL lockout, including negotiations with league owners. After
19 seasons in the NHL, Linden retired on June 11, 2008, twenty years to
the day after he was drafted into the NHL. Linden's jersey number 16
was retired by the Canucks on December 17, 2008, the second number
retired by the team. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1250:
Seventh Crusade: After three days of fighting, the Ayyubids
successfully defended Al Mansurah, Egypt, from invading crusaders.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Al_Mansurah>
1826:
University College London was founded as the first secular university
in England.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London>
1858:
Fourteen-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported the first
of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting in the
town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_apparitions>
1919:
Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the German Weimar
Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ebert>
1990:
Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27
years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South
Africa.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
thin-film interference (n):
(optics) [[interference
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thin-film_interference>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I was sixteen years old when the first World War broke out, and I lived
at that time in Hungary. From reading the newspapers in Hungary, it
would have appeared that, whatever Austria and Germany did was right
and whatever England, France, Russia, or America did was wrong. A good
case could be made out for this general thesis, in almost every single
instance. It would have been difficult for me to prove, in any single
instance, that the newspapers were wrong, but somehow, it seemed to me
unlikely that the two nations located in the center of Europe should be
invariably right, and that all the other nations should be invariably
wrong. History, I reasoned, would hardly operate in such a peculiar
fashion, and it didn't take long until I began to hold views which were
diametrically opposed to those held by the majority of my schoolmates.
--Leó Szilárd
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd>