Carlton Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in
Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England. Founded in 1904 as Sneinton Football
Club, it was described in 1909 as "the leading amateur football club in
Nottingham". Its reputation declined thereafter, with the team
participating in obscure county divisions until the 1995–96 season saw
the club join the nationwide league system. Carlton competes in the
Northern Premier League's Division One East in the eighth tier of the
English football pyramid. Its home base since the early 1990s has been
the Bill Stokeld Stadium (entrance pictured). It won promotion in
2006–07 from the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East
Football League. Tournament records include reaching the third round of
the FA Amateur Cup four times; the third qualifying round of the FA Cup
twice; the first round of the FA Trophy in 2021–22; and the third
round of the FA Vase in 2005–06. The club is nicknamed "the Millers"
and its main colours are yellow and blue.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Town_F.C.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a
precursor to the modern movie projector.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope>
1959:
A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and
chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed
to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Nhu>
1997:
Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner Dodi Fayed, and their
driver were killed in a car accident in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales>
2002:
Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful
typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Rusa>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mislike:
1. (transitive)
2. To disapprove of or dislike (someone or something); to have an
aversion to.
3. (archaic) To displease or offend (someone).
4. (intransitive)
5. (archaic) To displease or offend.
6. (obsolete)
7. To disapprove; also, to be displeased or unhappy.
8. To become sickly or weak due to poor health; to waste away.
9. (uncountable, archaic) Aversion or distaste for something; dislike;
(countable, archaic) an instance of this.
10. (obsolete)
11. (uncountable) Lack of comfort; discomfort; also, difficulty;
trouble; or sadness; unhappiness.
12. (uncountable) The characteristic or state of incapacity, physical
distress, or weakness due to poor health; sickliness; (countable) an
instance of this.
13. (uncountable) Discontent, unrest; (countable) an instance of this.
[...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mislike>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Solidarity is a universal value which is becoming indispensable
for progress and for the survival of humankind.But a modern state has to
be worthy of solidarity, in other words, it should pursue, in both
domestic and international affairs, policies that bring together the
interests of its people and those of the world community. This task,
however obvious, is not a simple one. Life is much richer and more
complex than even the most perfect plans to make it better. It
ultimately takes vengeance for attempts to impose abstract schemes, even
with the best of intentions.
--Mikhail Gorbachev
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev>
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