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Stocksbridge Park Steels in 2007

Stocksbridge Park Steels Football Club is an English association football club based in the Stocksbridge area of Sheffield. They currently compete in the Northern Premier League Division One South East. The club was formed in 1986 from the merger of Stocksbridge Works, the works team of the local British Steel Corporation plant, with Oxley Park Sports. Sporting a yellow and blue home kit, they play at the Bracken Moor ground. They initially played in the Northern Counties East League, progressing through its divisions. They won promotion to Division One of the Northern Premier League in 1996, and reached its Premier Division in 2009, but were relegated back to Division One South in 2014. Due to league re-organisation, they now play in Division One South East. Steels have participated in the FA Cup every year since 1992, reaching the 4th qualifying round in 2003, and first entered the FA Trophy in 1996 after previously participating in the FA Vase. (Full article...)

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White-Robed Guanyin,
by Qiu Zhu

... that 16th-century Chinese painter Qiu Zhu was known for her depiction of Guanyin (pictured), the goddess of compassion popular among women?
... that in the Zambrów massacre, during the September 1939 invasion of Poland, German Wehrmacht soldiers murdered more than 200 Polish prisoners of war?
... that J. J. Stiffler's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from NASA's need for power-efficient synchronization of data transmission for its space probes?
... that when Harley-Davidson demanded that William Morris take its signs down from his store, he put them on display in his Bill's Old Bike Barn?
... that Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt Semperoper in Dresden?
... that the phoulkon was a shield wall formation of the late and East Roman army, which classical writers described as both a testudo and a phalanx?
... that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian long jumper M. Sreeshankar won the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships?
... that following a strike at Lundy's Restaurant in New York City, its owner announced that it would "never reopen" – only to have it reopen a few months later?

In the news

Middlesex Guildhall

An earthquake in Kashmir kills 38 people and injures more than 700 others.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (building pictured) unanimously rules that the September 2019 prorogation of Parliament was unlawful and void.
Astronomers announce that 2I/Borisov is the first verified interstellar comet, ahead of its closest approach to the Sun on 7 December.
At the Primetime Emmy Awards, Fleabag wins Outstanding Comedy Series, and Game of Thrones wins Outstanding Drama Series.

On this day

September 28

Alexander Fleming

1106 – In the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy, the invading King Henry I of England captured his brother Robert Curthose.
1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City.
1928 – Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming (pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory.
1975 – An attempted robbery of the Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, went wrong, becoming a six-day hostage situation.
2009 – A protest held by 50,000 people in Conakry, Guinea, was forcefully disrupted by the military junta, resulting in at least 157 deaths and over 1,200 injuries.

Prosper Mérimée (b. 1803) · Frank S. Scott (d. 1912) · Guillermo Endara (d. 2009)

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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a 1633 oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting depicts the miracle of Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee, specifically as it is described in the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark. It is Rembrandt's only seascape. The work was previously in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, but on the morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers broke into the museum and stole the painting and twelve other works in what is considered to be the biggest art theft in U.S. history. The museum still displays the paintings' empty frames in their original locations and the heist remains unsolved. In 2013, the FBI announced that they knew who was responsible for the crime. Criminal analysis has suggested that the heist was committed by an organized crime group. There have been no conclusions made public, as the investigation is ongoing.

Painting credit: Rembrandt

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