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Today's featured article Ferry Boat Inn, behind which Gedling Town was based Gedling Town Football Club was a semi-professional association football club based in Stoke Bardolph in Nottinghamshire, England. Founded in 1985 as R & R Scaffolding, the works team of a construction firm from Netherfield, the club played its first four seasons in amateur football. Between 1990 and 2008, Gedling competed in three Central Midlands Football League divisions and Division One of the Northern Counties East Football League, winning three league titles in the process. Gedling then joined the Premier Division of the East Midlands Counties Football League at the tenth tier of the English football pyramid, in which the club remained until its dissolution in 2011 due to insolvency. Its home ground from the early 1990s was the Riverside Stadium behind the Ferry Boat Inn (pictured). Tournament records included reaching the third qualifying round of the FA Cup in 2003–04 and the fourth round of the FA Vase in 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2005–06. The team were nicknamed "The Ferrymen", and their colours were primarily yellow and blue. (Full article...) Recently featured: Mells War Memorial Justus George Floyd (American football) Did you know Members of the Fijian Labour Corps in 1918 ... that members of the Fijian Labour Corps (pictured) attracted notice on the Western Front of World War I for their height and muscularity? ... that Ye Gongchuo worked for emperors, warlords and republicans before leaving politics to focus on art? ... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery? ... that Walter Campbell Smith's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British Army during World War I? ... that Will Wood performed nude for the music video of a song on SELF-iSH? ... that Wilf Perreault's artwork of landscapes and alleyways was influenced by artists such as Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles? ... that the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District has 102 properties within 12 blocks and contains "excellent examples of the predominant architecture styles of the 1920s and 1930s"? ... that Dutch rabbi Meijer de Hond, who grew up in poverty, was known as the Volksrebbe ('people's rabbi') for his popularity among the Jewish poor of Amsterdam? ... that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?

In the news Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (pictured) resigns as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England. A suicide bombing by the Balochistan Liberation Army at the Quetta railway station, Pakistan, kills 32 people. The German ruling coalition collapses over disagreements on economic policies. Donald Trump wins the United States presidential election. Maia Sandu is re-elected President of Moldova. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Johannes Beutler Judith Jamison June Spencer John Nott Ram Narayan Elwood Edwards This day in history November 12 Bombing of Tirpitz in September 1944 1944 – Second World War: In Operation Catechism, the Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz (video featured) near Tromsø, Norway, killing about 1,000 sailors on board. 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an estimated 111 Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants. 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite. 1991 – Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people. 2014 – The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet. Johan Rantzau (b. 1492) Rachel Barrett (b. 1874) Jo Stafford (b. 1917) Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (b. 1926) More anniversaries: November 11 November 12 November 13

Today's featured media Contemporary climate change involves rising global temperatures and significant shifts in Earth's weather patterns. Climate change is driven by emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. Emissions come mostly from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), and also from agriculture, forest loss, cement production and steel making. Climate change causes sea level rise, glacial retreat and desertification, and intensifies heat waves, wildfires and tropical cyclones. These effects of climate change endanger food security, freshwater access and global health. Climate change can be limited by using low-carbon energy sources such as wind and solar energy, by forestation, and shifts in agriculture. Adaptations such as coastline protection cannot by themselves avert the risk of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts. Limiting global warming in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement requires reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. This animation, produced by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio with data from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, shows global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2023 on a world map, illustrating the rise in global temperatures. Normal temperatures (calculated over the 30-year baseline period 1951–1980) are shown in white, higher-than-normal temperatures in red, and lower-than-normal temperatures in blue. The data are averaged over a running 24-month window. Video credit: NASA; visualized by Mark SubbaRao Recently featured: Shirley Graham Du Bois European spruce bark beetle Pyromorphite

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