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The Nashville Sounds are a minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. They are located in Nashville, Tennessee, and are named for the city's association with the music industry. The team plays its home games at Herschel Greer Stadium, which opened in 1978 and holds 10,300 fans. Established as a Double-A team in 1978, the Sounds moved up to the Triple-A level in 1985. The team has served as a farm club for six major league franchises. A total of 22 managers have helmed the club and its over 950 players. As of the completion of the 2011 season, the team had played in 4,869 regular season games and compiled a win–loss record of 2,527–2,342. The team fielded in 1980 was recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time. The Sounds won the PCL Championship in 2005, sweeping the Tacoma Rainiers in three games in the final series. Previous league titles won by the team are the Southern League title in 1979, as the Double-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, and again in 1982 as the Double-A affiliate of the New York Yankees. (more...) Recently featured: Caroline of Ansbach – Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – Ediacara biota Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt dissolves the country's parliament (Egyptian coat of arms pictured). NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is launched. More than 90 people are killed in a series of car bombings across Iraq. Jon McGregor wins the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Even the Dogs. An Australian coroner rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980. More than 70 people are buried and presumed dead as the result of two earthquakes in Afghanistan. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
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June 16: Trooping the Colour and the Queen's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries (2012); Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland; Youth Day in South Africa 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fended off a numerically superior French Navy battlefleet. 1846 – Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected as Pius IX, and he would become the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church. 1904 – Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses. 1958 – Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 were executed following secret trials. 1960 – The thriller/horror film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, was released. More anniversaries: June 15 – June 16 – June 17 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now June 16, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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The bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) is a commercially important species of loliginid squid. It is a small to medium-sized squid, averaging 3.8 to 33 cm (1.5 to 13 in) in length, and is characterised by a large oval fin that extends throughout the margins of its mantle, giving it a superficial similarity to cuttlefish. It also possesses iridophores (particularly in the head), a form of structural colouration that produces iridescent metallic greens and red when illuminated, as seen here. However, it does not have photophores, and is thus not truly bioluminescent.

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