Waisale Serevi (born 1968) is a former Fijian rugby union footballer and coach. A member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame, he is widely considered to be the greatest rugby sevens player in the history of the game. In the 15-man game, he played for Fiji 39 times between 1989 and 2003, scoring 376 points and representing his country in the 1991, 1999, and 2003 Rugby World Cups. He also played professionally for the Mitsubishi, Leicester, Stade Montois, Stade Bordelais and Staines rugby teams. His representative sevens career started in 1989 when he played for Fiji at the Hong Kong tournament. Serevi also played in the 1993, 1997, 2001, and 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens, winning the World Cup with Fiji in 1997 and 2005. He won silver at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and 2002, and captured bronze in 2006. After winning the 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Serevi was appointed player-coach of the Fiji Sevens national team, and led them to a 2005–06 World Sevens Series victory.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1815:

Napoleon escaped from Elba (return depicted), an island off the coast of Italy, where he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau one year earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon

1935:

Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe reinstated, violating the Treaty of Versailles signed at the end of World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe

1979:

The Superliner railcar entered revenue service with Amtrak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superliner_%28railcar%29

2012:

African-American teenager Trayvon Martin was killed while walking in a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood, prompting a nationwide controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

haul: 1. (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. 2. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy. 3. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. 4. (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug. 5. (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something. 6. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. 7. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind. 8. (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haul

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.   --Johnny Cash https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash