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Carlton Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England. Founded in 1904 as Sneinton Football Club, it was described in 1909 as "the leading amateur football club in Nottingham". Its reputation declined thereafter, with the team participating in obscure county divisions until the 1995–96 season saw the club join the nationwide league system. Carlton competes in the Northern Premier League's Division One East in the eighth tier of the English football pyramid. Its home base since the early 1990s has been the Bill Stokeld Stadium (entrance pictured). It won promotion in 2006–07 from the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East Football League. Tournament records include reaching the third round of the FA Amateur Cup four times; the third qualifying round of the FA Cup twice; the first round of the FA Trophy in 2021–22; and the third round of the FA Vase in 2005–06. The club is nicknamed "the Millers" and its main colours are yellow and blue. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that at its premiere at Symphony Hall, Leonard Bernstein (pictured) described his suite Divertimento as a "fun piece" that "reflects my youthful experiences here where I heard my first orchestral music"?
- ... that Irene Desmet, a Liverpudlian paediatric surgeon, was described by one of her trainees as "an iron fist in a velvet glove"?
- ... that Gil Scott-Heron's 1975 song "Johannesburg" was banned in South Africa during apartheid?
- ... that Indian philanthropist and business executive T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
- ... that a Virginia radio station built a house to raise money for operations?
- ... that Peter Corby's electric trouser press used technology designed for Concorde?
- ... that at over 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi), Antar Lintas Sumatera's Medan-to-Jember service is the longest bus route in Indonesia?
- ... that Pliny used the term insania to describe a Roman art collector's love of citron tables?
In the news
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- Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured) dies at the age of 91.
- Floods in Pakistan kill more than 1,100 people and over 700,000 livestock.
- In the Angolan general election, the MPLA win the most seats and João Lourenço is re-elected as president.
- William Ruto is elected President of Kenya.
- In Giza, Egypt, a church fire spreads to a nursery and kills 41 people, including at least 18 children.
On this day
August 31: Ganesh Chaturthi begins (Hinduism, 2022); Independence Day in Malaysia (1957); Romanian Language Day in Romania
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- 1888 – The body of Mary Ann Nichols, the alleged first victim of an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, was found in Buck's Row, London.
- 1897 – Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector.
- 1959 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
- 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car accident in Paris.
- 2002 – Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.
- Robert Bacher (b. 1905)
- Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi (b. 1911)
- Manon Melis (b. 1986)
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Coat of arms of the Idaho Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from 1863 to 1890. Idaho Territory originally covered all of the present-day states of Idaho and Montana, and almost all of the present-day state of Wyoming, omitting only a corner in the state's extreme southwest portion. It was wholly spanned east-to-west by the bustling Oregon Trail and partly by the other emigrant trails, the California Trail and Mormon Trail which since hitting stride in 1847, had been conveying settler wagon trains to the west, and incidentally, across the continental divide into the Snake River Basin, a key gateway into the Idaho and Oregon Country interiors. After several reductions, the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as Idaho. Credit: Henry Mitchell; restored by Godot13
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