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Theoren Fleury is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), Tappara of the SM-liiga, and the Belfast Giants of the Elite Ice Hockey League. One of the smallest players of his generation, Fleury played a physical style that often led to altercations; he was at the centre of the infamous Punch-up in Piestany, a brawl that resulted in the disqualification of Canada and the Soviet Union from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He was selected 166th overall by the Flames in the 1987 draft and played over 1,000 NHL games between 1989 and 2003. A seven-time all-star, Fleury scored over 1,000 points in his NHL career and won the Stanley Cup with the Flames in 1989. He twice represented Canada at the Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal in 2002. He battled drug and alcohol addictions throughout his career, and in his 2009 autobiography Playing with Fire made allegations that he had been sexually abused by former coach Graham James. Since overcoming his addictions, Fleury has become a businessman, played two professional baseball games for the Calgary Vipers and embarked on a career as a motivational speaker encouraging sexual abuse victims to speak out. (more...) Recently featured: Ariel – Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford – SMS Baden Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that Maria Bashir (pictured), Chief Prosecutor General of Herat Province, Afghanistan, is the first ever woman Chief Prosecutor in Afghan history? ... that the 1952 NATO exercise Operation Longstep featured a large-scale amphibious assault along the western coast of Turkey? ... that in 1952 the communist candidate Baddam Yella Reddy defeated P. V. Narasimha Rao (later the Prime Minister of India) in a parliamentary election? ... that Jeune Fille Endormie by the iconic 20th-century painter Picasso recently sold for nearly £13.5 million, and had only been on public display once? ... that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17? ... that an unsuccessful month-long siege in Yemen during the expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah was broken when Abdullah trapped the enemy by pretending to withdraw from the area into the hills? ... that the current CEO of the South African National Blood Service was once rejected as a blood donor because she is black? Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

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Christine Lagarde (pictured) is appointed as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, effective 5 July. The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity during the ongoing civil war in Libya. New York becomes the sixth and most-populous U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. Mario Draghi is appointed for an eight-year term as President of the European Central Bank, effective 1 November. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko is convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Actor Peter Falk, best known for playing the detective Columbo, dies at the age of 83. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
On this day...
June 29: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Roman Catholicism); Independence Day in Seychelles (1976) 1149 – Second Crusade: An army led by Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed the forces of Antioch led by Prince Raymond in the Battle of Inab. 1444 – Albanians led by Skanderbeg scored a resounding victory in their rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Torvioll. 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof. 1950 – In one of the greatest upsets in sports history, the United States defeated England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup. 1974 – Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her ill husband Juan Perón, who died two days later. 1985 – The European Economic Community adopted the Flag of Europe (pictured), a flag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955. More anniversaries: June 28 – June 29 – June 30 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now June 29, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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The body of a Canon EOS 400D digital single-lens reflex camera without the lens attached, so that the lens mount is visible. It went on sale in August 2006, succeeding the popular EOS 350D, and was itself replaced by the 450D in April 2008. The Canon EOS line was introduced in 1987 and is named after the Titan goddess of the dawn Eos. It competes primarily with the Nikon F series and its successors, and with autofocus SLR systems from other manufacturers.

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