John Wark (born 1957) is a Scottish former footballer who spent most of
his playing time with Ipswich Town. He won a record four Player of the
Year awards before becoming one of the four inaugural members of the
club's Hall of Fame. Wark had long spells at the club, which bookended
his career, and a third, brief interlude dividing his briefer periods
at Liverpool and Middlesbrough. A versatile player, Wark played most of
his professional games as a midfielder, although he sometimes played as
a central defender and on occasion as a striker. Born in Glasgow, Wark
represented Scotland in international football, winning 29 caps and
scoring seven goals. This included selection for Scotland in the 1982
FIFA World Cup in which he made three appearances and scored twice.
During his playing career, Wark appeared in the film Escape to Victory.
Since retiring as a professional player in 1996, he has continued to
work for Ipswich Town—since April 2009 in the corporate hospitality
department. His autobiography was published in 2009.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
Christopher Columbus wrote an open letter describing his discoveries
and the unexpected items he came across in the New World, which was
widely distributed upon his return to Portugal.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus%27s_Letter_on_the_First_Voyage>
1949:
Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations at Cave 1
of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank region of Jordan, the location of
the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves>
1965:
Canada adopted the Maple Leaf flag , replacing the Canadian Red Ensign.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada>
1979:
Don Dunstan resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of
sweeping social liberalisation.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Dunstan>
2003:
In one of the largest anti-war rallies in history, millions around the
world in approximately 800 cities took part in protests against the
impending invasion of Iraq.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15%2C_2003_anti-war_protest>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sherpa (n):
1. A male of the Sherpa people employed as a mountain guide or porter.
2. An expert sent by a country's leader to a summit meeting.
3. A
synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur,
imitation lamb wool, or fleece
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sherpa>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and
reverence. Duty arises from our potential control over the course of
events. Where attainable knowledge could have changed the issue,
ignorance has the guilt of vice. And the foundation of reverence is
this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum
of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time,
which is eternity.
--Alfred North Whitehead
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead>