CenturyLink Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Seattle, Washington,
United States. The stadium was designed for both American football and
soccer. It serves as the home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the
National Football League (NFL) and Seattle Sounders FC of Major League
Soccer (MLS). Sounders FC have hosted and won two U.S. Open Cup
championship matches at CenturyLink in 2010 and 2011, setting an
attendance record for the tournament final each time. The venue also
hosts concerts, trade shows, and consumer shows along with sporting
events. Located within a mile (1.6 km) of Seattle's central business
district, it is accessible by multiple freeways and forms of mass
transit. It was built between 2000 and 2002 after voters approved
funding for the construction in a statewide election. This vote created
the Washington State Public Stadium Authority to oversee public
ownership of the venue. CenturyLink Field is a modern facility with
views of the skyline of Downtown Seattle and can seat 67,000 people.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CenturyLink_Field>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1786:
Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat completed the first
recorded ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps, an act considered to be the
birth of modern mountaineering.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc>
1942:
Following a speech by Mohandas K. Gandhi, the All India
Congress Committee passed the Quit India Resolution, calling for the
immediate independence of India from the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement>
1969:
At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan took
the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road,
one of the most famous album covers in recording history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road>
1988:
The 8888 Uprising, a series of marches, demonstrations,
protests, and riots against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist
Programme Party in Burma, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8888_Uprising>
2010:
A massive mudslide of 1.8 million cubic metres (2,400,000
cu yd) of mud and rocks in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China,
killed 1,471 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Gansu_mudslide>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shuttlecock:
(badminton) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or
rubber-covered nose, used in badminton as a ball is used in other
racquet games; a birdie.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shuttlecock>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of
paradoxes.
--Henry Fairfield Osborn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Fairfield_Osborn>
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