First Tennessee Park is a baseball park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. It opened in 2015 as the home of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds of the Pacific Coast League. It was built on the site of the former Sulphur Dell, a minor league ballpark in use from 1870 to 1963. The design of the park incorporates imagery inspired by country music, Sulphur Dell, and the city's former baseball players and teams. Its most distinctive feature is its guitar-shaped scoreboard. During construction of the park, artifacts dating to around 1150 were uncovered; these are now on permanent display in the Tennessee State Museum's Mississippian Period exhibit. Archaeologists believe them to be the remnants of a workshop in a Native American settlement where mineral water from underground springs was boiled to collect salt. The park is on a flood plain of the Cumberland River that flooded in 2010.

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1853:

The United States purchased approximately 29,700 square miles (77,000 km2) of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande (map pictured) from Mexico for $10 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_Purchase

1906:

The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India that developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent, was founded in Dhaka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-India_Muslim_League

1958:

The Guatemalan Air Force fired upon Mexican fishing boats which had strayed into Guatemalan territory, causing a conflict between the two nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93Guatemala_conflict

2013:

Supporters of religious leader Paul-Joseph Mukungubila attacked television studios, the airport and a military base in Kinshasa, DR Congo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2013_Kinshasa_attacks

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

supine: 1. Lying on its back; reclined. 2. (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something; lazy, lethargic, listless. 3. (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supine

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I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.   --Romain Rolland https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Romain_Rolland