Shelton Benjamin is an American professional wrestler and former
amateur wrestler best known for his tenure in World Wrestling
Entertainment. Benjamin has an amateur wrestling background, including
wrestling in high school and at the University of Minnesota. In
addition, Benjamin has acted as an assistant coach in amateur
wrestling. He first spent time in Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he held
the Southern Tag Team Championship four times. WWE then moved him to
the main roster and put him into an alliance with Kurt Angle and
Charlie Haas, known as Team Angle (and later the World's Greatest Tag
Team). During his tenure with the company, he has won the
Intercontinental Championship three times, the United States
Championship once, and the WWE Tag Team Championship twice with Haas.
He currently wrestles for Ring of Honor, where he is currently one half
of the World Tag Team Champions with Charlie Haas.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1755:
French and Indian War: The defeat in the Battle of the Monongahela
brought an end to Britain's attempt to capture the strategically
important Ohio Country.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Monongahela>
1815:
Talleyrand assumed his role as the first Prime Minister of France.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-P%C3%A9rigord>
1943:
World War II: The Allies began their invasion of Sicily, a large scale
amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land
combat.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily>
1999:
Six days of student protests began after Iranian police attacked a
University of Tehran dormitory following a peaceful student
demonstration against the closure of the reformist newspaper Salam.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_student_protests%2C_July_1999>
2002:
The African Union was formed as a successor to the amalgamated African
Economic Community and the Organization of African Unity, with
President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki as its first chairman.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mammothrept (n):
A spoilt child
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mammothrept>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask
ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to
whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the
question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to
prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all
parties?
--Bertrand Russell
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell>
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