Tyrone Garland (born 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played with the National Basketball League of Canada's Mississauga Power, before the team folded in 2015. Garland initially competed at the collegiate level with the Virginia Tech Hokies, but transferred out during his sophomore season after limited playing time. Before his 2012–13 junior season, he joined the La Salle Explorers and instantly assumed a leading role. He lifted them to a second-round win at the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament with a game- winning shot known as the "Southwest Philly Floater". By the end of his college career, his senior basketball class at La Salle had become the most successful in 22 years. Prior to that, Garland starred for John Bartram High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he finished third on the all-time Philadelphia Public League scoring list in 2010, behind only Maureece Rice and Wilt Chamberlain.

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1558:

Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England

1869:

The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal

1905:

Influenced by the result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire signed the Eulsa Treaty, effectively depriving Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_Treaty_of_1905

1950:

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama

1968:

NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game

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fedge: A fence made up of living plants, especially willow, thus somewhat resembling a hedge. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fedge

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As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. It demands no jealous barrier of isolation; it knows that such isolation is undesirable and impossible; but it teaches that by all men's strictly minding their own business, a fluid society, freely adapting itself to mutual needs, wherein all the world shall belong to all men, as much as each has need or desire, will result. And when Modern Revolution has thus been carried to the heart of the whole world — if it ever shall be, as I hope it will — then may we hope to see a resurrection of that proud spirit of our fathers which put the simple dignity of Man above the gauds of wealth and class, and held that to be an American was greater than to be a king. In that day there shall be neither kings nor Americans — only Men; over the whole earth, MEN.   --Voltairine de Cleyre https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre