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Luke Williams, Notts County's head coach

In their 2022–23 season, Notts County competed in the National League. The team was involved in an intense race with Wrexham for the league title and the solitary automatic promotion place. Notts County finished second with 107 points and qualified for the play-offs, beating Chesterfield on penalties in the 2023 National League play-off final to be promoted to the English Football League. Led by head coach Luke Williams (pictured), they played 51 competitive matches, winning 34, drawing 13 and losing 4, and broke numerous club records. Macaulay Langstaff scored 42 goals during the campaign, setting new club and league records for the most goals scored by a player in a single season. The necessity of a team with such a high points tally having to win promotion via the play-offs prompted discussion about increasing the number of promotion and relegation places between the National League and EFL. The team's rivalry with Wrexham was featured in the TV programme Welcome to Wrexham. (Full article...)

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... that Texas soprano Mary Carson sued Thomas Edison for his refusal to pay her for recordings she made for his company?
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Site of the Amityville murders

1809 – As part of the Persian Gulf campaign, a British flotilla arrived at and launched an amphibious assault on Ras Al Khaimah.
1945 – FC Dynamo Moscow opened their exhibition tour of the United Kingdom with a 3–3 draw against Chelsea, breaking the attendance record for a British club football match.
1966 – Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu.
1974 – Six members of the DeFeo family were murdered in their home (house pictured) in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise.
1992 – In Dietrich v The Queen, the High Court of Australia ruled that, although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay in most circumstances in which an accused is unrepresented.

Malcolm III of Scotland (d. 1093)
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Saint Lite, the first Classic Triple Crown winner (1941)

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing can refer to one of five national-level titles in Japanese horse racing, each comprising three races held in one year. The Japan Racing Association (JRA) recognises the Classic Triple Crown (Satsuki Shō, Tōkyō Yūshun and Kikuka-shō) and the Triple Tiara (Oka Shō, Yushun Himba and Shūka Shō). Since 2024, the National Association of Racing (NAR) has also recognised the Dirt Triple Crown (Haneda Hai, Tokyo Derby and Japan Dirt Classic). The JRA also offers bonuses for winning the Ōsaka Hai, Tennō Shō (Spring) and Takarazuka Kinen, or the Tennō Shō (Autumn), Japan Cup and Arima Kinen in one season, commonly referred to as the Spring and Autumn Triple Crowns. Winning any of the Crowns comes with both significant bonus prizes and prestige; many winners have entered the JRA Hall of Fame. Seventeen horses have won a Crown: eight have won the Classic Triple Crown, seven have won the Triple Tiara, and two have won the Autumn Triple Crown. No horse has yet completed either the Dirt Triple Crown or the Spring Triple Crown. (Full list...)

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The Hupa are a Native American people of northwestern California, who migrated to the area around 1000. The Hupa language belongs to the Athabaskan family. Traditionally, they relied on salmon fishing, acorns and basketry. Most Hupa are enrolled in the federally recognized Hoopa Valley Tribe, whose reservation encompasses their ancestral homeland. This photograph, taken around 1923 by Edward S. Curtis and titled "A Smoky Day at the Sugar Bowl", shows a Hupa man standing on a rock in the middle of the Trinity River and holding a fishing spear. The photograph was published in Curtis's ethnographic series The North American Indian in 1924.

Photograph credit: Edward S. Curtis

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