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Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool. It has played at its home ground, Anfield, since its founding in 1892. The club has won eighteen League titles, the second most in English football, as well as seven FA Cups and a record eight League Cups. It has also won more European titles than any other English club, with five European Cups, three UEFA Cups and three Super Cups. The most successful period in Liverpool's history was the 1970s and 1980s, when the club won numerous honours both domestically and in Europe. The club's supporters have been involved in two major tragedies: the first was the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, in which charging Liverpool fans caused a wall to collapse, killing 39 Juventus supporters. In the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, 96 Liverpool supporters died following a crush against perimeter fencing. Liverpool have long-standing rivalries with city neighbours Everton and with Manchester United. The team has played in an all-red home strip since 1964, and its anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone". (more...) Recently featured: Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss – Titan – Birth control movement in the United States Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that proposals to raise the wreck of the RMS Titanic (pictured) have included filling it with ping-pong balls, injecting it with 180,000 tons of Vaseline or turning it into an iceberg? ... that Werner Schuster, who in the Bundestag was concerned with health policy, Africa and the fight against AIDS, founded a civic partnership between Idstein in Germany and Moshi in Tanzania? ... that on 3 March 1945 the Royal Air Force accidentally bombed a residential neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people? ... that Shadeed, an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse with an Arabic name, set a course record at Ascot when he won the 1985 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes? ... that one can see almost the whole of Metohija (1,290 sq mi) from the heights of Dulje, Kosovo? ... that television producer and director Richard Jasek's father was a concert violinist who was coerced into becoming a spy? Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

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The International Criminal Court (building pictured) finds Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty of the war crime of conscripting children. The Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition, 244 years after its first publication. The Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by Alfredo Cristiani, wins a plurality in the Salvadoran elections. An American soldier's shooting spree kills 16 Afghan civilians. Direction – Social Democracy wins a majority in the Slovak parliamentary election. The Egyptian Football Association cancels the remainder of the 2011–12 Egyptian Premier League season as a result of the Port Said Stadium disaster. Conflict in Syria – Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
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March 15: Ides of March; National Day in Hungary (1848); Hōnen Matsuri in Japan 933 – Franks led by German king Henry I defeated an invading Hungarian army in the Battle of Riade in northern Thuringia. 1820 – As part of the Missouri Compromise, the exclave of Massachusetts known as Maine was given its own U.S. statehood. 1916 – Six days after Pancho Villa (pictured) and his cross-border raiders attacked Columbus, New Mexico, U.S. General John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue Villa. 1956 – The musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, debuted at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. 1990 – Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad Bazoft for spying for Israel. More anniversaries: March 14 – March 15 – March 16 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now March 15, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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A cast of the extinct hominid species Sahelanthropus tchadensis holotype cranium, dubbed "Toumaï", in facio-lateral view. The original cranial fragment is dated to about 7 million years ago and was discovered in Chad. Other than Toumaï, the only Sahelanthropus remains to be discovered are five pieces of jaw and some teeth.

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