Turning Point was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held
on November 9, 2008, in Orlando, Florida, produced by the American Total
Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It was the fourth event in the
Turning Point chronology and the eleventh in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule.
Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.
In the main event, Sting defeated A.J. Styles to retain the TNA World
Heavyweight Championship. Booker T (pictured earlier in 2008) fended off
Christian Cage to retain the TNA Legends Championship. Kevin Nash bested
Samoa Joe in a featured event, and Kurt Angle defeated Abyss in a Falls
Count Anywhere match. Turning Point had an attendance of 1,100 people
and, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, a PPV audience of
30,000. Bryan and Chris Sokol of the professional wrestling section of
the Canadian Online Explorer website rated the event 7 out of 10, up
from the 2007 event's rating of 6.5.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_%282008_wrestling%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1918:
The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted
the national flag (pictured) which is still used by the 21st-century
Republic of Azerbaijan, with minor modifications.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Azerbaijan>
1938:
Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed
and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and
Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of 30,000
men to concentration camps.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht>
1967:
French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared
in Pilote magazine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline>
2016:
A tram derailed in Croydon, United Kingdom, killing seven
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Croydon_tram_derailment>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
arrowroot:
1. (countable, uncountable) Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae
family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green
leaves about 15 centimeters long with white stripes.
2. (countable, uncountable) Usually preceded by an attributive word:
some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance
similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida
arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or
kudzu).
3. (uncountable) A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an
arrowroot plant used as a thickener.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arrowroot>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand
on all the beaches of the earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours
and every one of them is a succession of incidents, events, occurrences
which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an
immensity of space and time. And our small planet at this moment, here
we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world,
right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully
affect the destiny of our descendants, it is well within our power to
destroy our civilization and perhaps our species as well. If we
capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we could plunge our
world into a time of darkness deeper than the time between the collapse
of classical civilisation and the Italian Renaissance. But we are also
capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and
our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant
of this planet.
--Carl Sagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan>
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