Cliff Clinkscales (born 1984) is an American professional basketball
player for the Halifax Hurricanes of the National Basketball League of
Canada (NBL Canada). A 6-foot-1-inch (1.85 m) point guard, he was named
an NBL Canada All-Star in 2014 and was the captain of his league
champion team in 2016. In fifth grade in Jamaica, Queens, in New York,
Clinkscales' performance at a local basketball camp led to a feature in
Slam Magazine and appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Rosie
O'Donnell Show. He received recruitment letters from the Kansas Jayhawks
and University of Southern California Trojans. He first played high
school basketball at Shores Christian Academy in Ocala, Florida. He
played with the DePaul Blue Demons at the collegiate level, and was the
National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I leader in assist-to-
turnover ratio as a senior. He has been playing professionally since
2008 for the Erie BayHawks, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Panama City
Breeze, Halifax Rainmen and Halifax Hurricanes in the National
Basketball Association Development League, the American Basketball
League, and the NBL Canada.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Clinkscales>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1806:
Napoleonic Wars: When squadrons of British and French ships of
the line engaged in the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea, the
French ships Impérial and Diomède ran aground to avoid capture, but
were caught and destroyed anyway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Domingo>
1851:
The largest bushfire in a populous region in Australian history
swept across Victoria, resulting in approximately five million hectares
(twelve million acres) burnt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Thursday_bushfires>
1862:
Union forces earned one of their first important victories in
the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Henry>
1952:
Elizabeth II ascended to the thrones of the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and three other Commonwealth countries
upon the death of her father, George VI.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI>
2000:
Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of
Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1999%E2%80%932000)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mana:
1. Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in
Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.
2. (fantasy role-playing games) Magical power.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mana>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to
keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of
self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible
liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a
hill.
--Ronald Reagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>
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