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The club's original kit, worn until 1894
The club's original kit, worn until 1894

During Liverpool Football Club's first 68 years, they won five Football League championships before being relegated to the Second Division in the 1950s. They were founded in 1892 when John Houlding needed a team for the Anfield stadium, recently vacated by Everton Football Club. After winning the Lancashire League title in their first season, they were accepted into the Football League for the 1893–94 season. With Tom Watson as manager, they were promoted to the top tier of English football, winning their first League championships in 1901 and 1906 and reaching the FA Cup final in 1914. Liverpool's fortunes fluctuated during the inter-war years, when the club often finished in midtable, although they did win two further championships in 1922 and 1923. An expansion to the Spion Kop terracing in the 1920s increased Anfield's capacity. Liverpool became League champions again in 1947, in the first season after the Second World War, but, following a gradual decline, they were back in the Second Division by the time of Bill Shankly's appointment as manager in 1959. (Full article...)

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The first season of How I Met Your Mother, an American sitcom created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, premiered on CBS in the United States on September 19, 2005 and concluded on May 15, 2006. The season was directed by Pamela Fryman and produced by Bays & Thomas Productions and 20th Century Fox Television. It consists of 22 episodes, each running approximately 22 minutes in length. The season introduces Ted Mosby (voiced by Bob Saget) in the year 2030 as he sits his daughter and son down to tell them the story of how he met their mother. The story begins in 2005 with Ted (Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living in Manhattan with his two best friends from college: Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), a law student, and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher, who have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall proposes. Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his self-appointed best friend Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris). The first season garnered an average of 9.47 million viewers per episode in the U.S. (Full list...)

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Springtime

Springtime is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet. It depicts his first wife, Camille Doncieux, seated serenely beneath a canopy of lilacs. The painting is presently held by the Walters Art Museum.

Painting: Claude Monet

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