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Malmö FF are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club play their home matches at Swedbank Stadion. Formed on 24 February 1910, the club have won sixteen national championship titles and fourteen Svenska Cupen titles, making them the most successful club in Sweden in terms of total trophies won. Malmö FF have also won the top tier league, Allsvenskan, on three occasions when the title of Swedish champions was not decided by the outcome of that league. They were the runners-up in the 1978–79 European Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest. This feat makes them the only Scandinavian club to have made it to the final of the most prestigious club competition in European football, presently named the UEFA Champions League. The club currently play in Allsvenskan; Malmö first won this league in 1944 and most recently in the club's centennial anniversary in 2010. The team were most successful during the 1970s, when they won five Swedish championships and four national cup titles. (more...) Recently featured: W. E. B. Du Bois – Nyon Conference – St Nicholas Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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February 24: Independence Day in Estonia (1918); Flag Day in Mexico; National Artist Day in Thailand 1525 – A Spanish-Imperial army defeated a French force in the Battle of Pavia, the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526. 1809 – After standing only 15 years, London's Drury Lane theatre, the third building of that name, burned down (pictured). 1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek between the Choctaw and the United States government, the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed. 1875 – The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef at low tide and sank northwest of Holbourne Island, Queensland, Australia, with over 100 deaths. 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811 experienced an uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, killing nine passengers when their seats were sucked out of the plane. More anniversaries: February 23 – February 24 – February 25 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now February 24, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Two specimens of Pectinaria koreni, a species of ice cream cone worm, polychaete worms that build sand tubes that roughly resemble ice cream cones. The upper one is ensconced within its tube, and the lower one is the worm by itself. In both individuals, the head is to the right.

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