Turning Point was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held on November 9, 2008, in Orlando, Florida, produced by the American Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It was the fourth event in the Turning Point chronology and the eleventh in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card. In the main event, Sting defeated A.J. Styles to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Booker T (pictured earlier in 2008) fended off Christian Cage to retain the TNA Legends Championship. Kevin Nash bested Samoa Joe in a featured event, and Kurt Angle defeated Abyss in a Falls Count Anywhere match. Turning Point had an attendance of 1,100 people and, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, a PPV audience of 30,000. Bryan and Chris Sokol of the professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer website rated the event 7 out of 10, up from the 2007 event's rating of 6.5.
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1918:
The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted the national flag (pictured) which is still used by the 21st-century Republic of Azerbaijan, with minor modifications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Azerbaijan
1938:
Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of 30,000 men to concentration camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
1967:
French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in Pilote magazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline
2016:
A tram derailed in Croydon, United Kingdom, killing seven people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Croydon_tram_derailment
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arrowroot: 1. (countable, uncountable) Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long with white stripes. 2. (countable, uncountable) Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu). 3. (uncountable) A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arrowroot
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