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Cliff Clinkscales in 2016
Cliff Clinkscales (born 1984) is an American professional basketball player for
the Halifax Hurricanes of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada).
A 6-foot-1-inch (1.85 m) point guard, he was named an NBL Canada All-Star in 20
14 and was the captain of his league champion team in 2016. In fifth grade in Ja
maica, Queens, in New York, Clinkscales' performance at a local basketball camp
led to a feature in Slam Magazine and appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and
The Rosie O'Donnell Show. He received recruitment letters from the Kansas Jayhaw
ks and University of Southern California Trojans. He first played high school ba
sketball at Shores Christian Academy in Ocala, Florida. He played with the DePau
l Blue Demons at the collegiate level, and was the National Collegiate Athletic
Association Division I leader in assist-to-turnover ratio as a senior. He has be
en playing professionally since 2008 for the Erie BayHawks, Rio Grande Valley Vi
pers, Panama City Breeze, Halifax Rainmen and Halifax Hurricanes in the National
Basketball Association Development League, the American Basketball League, and
the NBL Canada. (Full article...)
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e football?
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only by decoding a secret message on their admission ticket?
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g the most discussed, most successful, most promising, most admired and most hat
ed British artists"?
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and a Chinese entrepreneur?
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posture for a year, during which time climbing plants grew around his legs?
... that stockpiles of United States Marine Corps weapons and equipment are stor
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... that Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, one of the first Nepali women to climb K2, was nam
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The population of the vaquita (example pictured), a porpoise endemic to the nort
hern Gulf of California, is announced to have dropped to the brink of extinction
at about 30 individuals.
Under the Alan Turing law, more than 49,000 men in England and Wales are pardone
d for breaching historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts.
Morocco is admitted to the African Union despite an ongoing dispute over Western
Sahara.
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e in Quebec City, Canada.
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Duckworth's Action off San Domingo
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo
1806 Napoleonic Wars: When squadrons of British and French ships of the line eng
aged in the Battle of San Domingo (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea, the French sh
ips Imprial and Diomde ran aground to avoid capture, but were caught and destroyed
anyway.
1851 The largest bushfire in a populous region in Australian history swept acros
s Victoria, resulting in approximately five million hectares (twelve million acr
es) burnt.
1862 Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American
Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
1952 Elizabeth II ascended to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Austral
ia, New Zealand and three other Commonwealth countries upon the death of her fat
her, George VI.
2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcin
g the separatist Chechen government into exile.
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Lawrence Taylor in 2009
Lawrence Taylor
The North Carolina Tar Heels American football team has had 215 players drafted
into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in
1936. Each NFL franchise seeks to add new players through the annual NFL Draft.
The team with the worst record the previous year picks first, the next-worst te
am second, and so on. The highest that a Tar Heel has ever been drafted is secon
d overall, which has happened on three occasions: Ken Willard in 1965, Lawrence
Taylor (pictured) in 1981, and Julius Peppers in 2002. The Buffalo Bills and Was
hington Redskins have drafted the most Tar Heels with sixteen and fifteen, respe
ctively. Every current NFL franchise has drafted a player from North Carolina. T
wenty-three Tar Heels have been drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft. The
single first round of the NFL Draft with the most Tar Heels selected was 1998 w
ith three: Greg Ellis, Brian Simmons, and Vonnie Holliday. Of the Tar Heels sele
cted in the NFL Draft, fifteen have been selected to a Pro Bowl, and seventeen h
ave been a member of a Super Bowl winning team; four have achieved both. (Full l
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Portsmouth Cathedral interior
The nave of the Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury in Portsmouth, Engla
nd. The original building was dedicated in 1188 to the honour of St Thomas of Ca
nterbury, who was assassinated and martyred. This chapel was to become, in turn,
a parish church in the 14th century and a cathedral in the 20th century.
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