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[George Washington Carver]
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The UEFA Euro 2016 final was the concluding match of UEFA Euro 2016, the fifteenth edition of the European Championship, UEFA's quadrennial competition for men's national football teams. The match was played before 75,868 spectators at the Stade de France (pictured) in Paris on 10 July 2016 between Portugal and hosts France. Following a goalless 90 minutes, which saw Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo depart the match through injury, Portugal then took the lead in the 108th minute through substitute Eder after his low shot beat France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. This proved to be the contest's only goal, as Portugal won 1–0 to claim their first major tournament title. In winning the final, Portugal became the tenth different nation to win the European Championship, twelve years after losing their first final at home in UEFA Euro 2004. As the winners, Portugal gained entry into their first FIFA Confederations Cup, which was played in Russia in 2017. (Full article...)
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On this day: June 11
- 806 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.
- 1775 – The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
- 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel (pictured) to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
- 2008 – Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
- James Francis Edward Keith (b. 1696)
- Claudia Lauper Bushman (b. 1934)
- Ben Waine (b. 2001)
- Taha Karaan (d. 2021)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].