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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
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 yello
home kit, they play at the Bracken Moor ground. They initially played in the Northern Counties East League, progressing th
divisions. They won promotion to Division One of the Northern Premier League in 1996, and reached its Premier Division i
were relegated back to Division One South in 2014. Due to league re-organisation, they now play in Division One South Eas
have participated in the FA Cup every year since 1992, reaching the 4th qualifying round in 2003, and first entered the FA T
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 compa
popular among women?
 ... that in the Zambrów massacre, during the September 1939 invasion of Poland, German Wehrmacht soldiers murder
200 Polish prisoners of war?
 ... that J. J. Stiffler's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from
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
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
a testudo and a phalanx?
 ... that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian long jumper M. Sreeshankar won the bronze medal at th
Asian Junior Athletics Championships?
 ... that following a strike at Lundy's Restaurant in New York City, its owner announced that it would "never reopen" –
have it reopen a few months later?

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Today's featured picture

 The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a 1633 oil-on-canvas
the Sea of Galilee, specifically as it is described in the fou
Museum in Boston, but on the morning of March 18, 199
considered to be the biggest art theft in U.S. history. The
the FBI announced that they knew who was responsible f
conclusions made public, as the investigation is ongoing.
Painting credit: Rembrandt

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