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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Garland>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>