Amador Valley High School is a public high school in Pleasanton,
California, a city east of San Francisco. Amador Valley is one of four
high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, which includes
Foothill High School, Village High School, and Horizon High School. The
school was founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School, from which
its first class graduated in 1923. The school has been named a
California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a
National Blue Ribbon School. As of 2009, Amador Valley offers its
2,500 students 23 varsity sports, 20 Advanced Placement courses, a
program to study local aquatic wildlife, and vocational training. A
monthly school publication, the Amadon, reports on athletics, academic
and extracurricular issues, and news of the school and community.
Student groups, including the Marching Band and Math Team, have toured
out-of-state after achieving high rankings in Californian competitions.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amador_Valley_High_School>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1816:
The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-
trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Seven_Oaks>
1939:
Former American baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States
as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig>
1978:
Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made its
debut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated
comic strips.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield>
1987:
Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the
Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 and injuring 45.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Hipercor_bombing>
2006:
The ceremonial "first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault,
a facility established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from
locations worldwide in an underground cavern in Spitsbergen, Norway, was
laid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
salad dodger:
(informal) An overweight person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salad_dodger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside
the frame.
--Salman Rushdie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie>
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