First Tennessee Park is a baseball park in downtown Nashville,
Tennessee, in the United States. It opened in 2015 as the home of the
Triple-A Nashville Sounds of the Pacific Coast League. It was built on
the site of the former Sulphur Dell, a minor league ballpark in use from
1870 to 1963. The design of the park incorporates imagery inspired by
country music, Sulphur Dell, and the city's former baseball players and
teams. Its most distinctive feature is its guitar-shaped scoreboard.
During construction of the park, artifacts dating to around 1150 were
uncovered; these are now on permanent display in the Tennessee State
Museum's Mississippian Period exhibit. Archaeologists believe them to be
the remnants of a workshop in a Native American settlement where mineral
water from underground springs was boiled to collect salt. The park is
on a flood plain of the Cumberland River that flooded in 2010.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Tennessee_Park>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1853:
The United States purchased approximately 29,700 square miles
(77,000 km2) of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande
(map pictured) from Mexico for $10 million.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_Purchase>
1906:
The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India
that developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as
a Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent, was founded in Dhaka.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-India_Muslim_League>
1958:
The Guatemalan Air Force fired upon Mexican fishing boats which
had strayed into Guatemalan territory, causing a conflict between the
two nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93Guatemala_conflict>
2013:
Supporters of religious leader Paul-Joseph Mukungubila attacked
television studios, the airport and a military base in Kinshasa, DR
Congo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2013_Kinshasa_attacks>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
supine:
1. Lying on its back; reclined.
2. (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral
weakness; apathetic or passive towards something; lazy, lethargic,
listless.
3. (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others
do not do it.
--Romain Rolland
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Romain_Rolland>