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Today's featured article George Floyd Jr. (born 1960) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back for two seasons with the New York Jets in the National Football League. Floyd played college football for the Eastern Kentucky University Colonels, where he won the 1979 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-AA football championship and set several school records, including for the most career interceptions (22), and the most career interception return yards (328). Floyd appeared in ten games during the 1982 New York Jets season, including three playoff games. He missed the entire 1983 season and appeared in eight games during the 1984 season before retiring after his third knee injury. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999. After the murder of George Floyd, an unrelated black American man, in May 2020, his photograph was erroneously included in a montage at the funeral. As of 2023, Floyd is a defensive backs coach for Conner High School in Kentucky. (Full article...) Recently featured: Mario Party DS Starship Troopers (film) Yugoslav destroyer Ljubljana Did you know Kent shaving brushes ... that Kent Brushes have supplied their products (examples pictured) to every British monarch since George IV? ... that He Jianshi used Chinese opera to advance a revolution against the Qing dynasty? ... that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture? ... that Aniello Prisco was shot to death while trying to extort a crime boss? ... that the rural village of Neath, New South Wales, had a population of three Tok Pisin speakers in 2021? ... that Canadian microbiologist Patricia Taylor helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis? ... that a "glomping circle" in 2008 reportedly lasted seven hours? ... that Margaret Pargeter published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later? ... that the Holy See has an official anime mascot?

In the news Donald Trump Donald Trump (pictured) wins the United States presidential election. Maia Sandu is re-elected President of Moldova. In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series. A canopy collapse at Serbia's Novi Sad railway station kills fourteen people. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: John Cannan Bernard Marcus Teri Garr Paul Stephenson Peanut Dub Jones This day in history November 9 People walking through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, was murdered in London. 1914 – World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos. 1939 – World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British agents of the Secret Intelligence Service near Venlo in the Netherlands. 1989 – East German official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night (border crossing pictured). 2019 – Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border. Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (b. 1719) Lenore Romney (b. 1908) Harry Trott (d. 1917) Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d. 1932) More anniversaries: November 8 November 9 November 10

Today's featured media Pyromorphite is a mineral species composed of lead chlorophosphate: Pb5(PO4)3Cl, sometimes occurring in sufficient abundance to be mined as an ore of lead. First distinguished chemically by Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1784, it was named pyromorphite by Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann in 1813. It is usually green, yellow or brown in color, with a resinous lustre. Crystals are common and have the form of a hexagonal prism terminated by the basal planes, sometimes combined with narrow faces of a hexagonal pyramid. Other forms include crystals with a barrel-like curvature and globular or reniform masses. Pyromorphite is part of the apatite group of minerals and bears a close resemblance physically and chemically with two other minerals, mimetite and vanadinite. This focus-stacked photograph, merged from 26 separate images, shows a sample of pyromorphite extracted from the Resuperferolitica Mine in Santa Eufemia, in the Spanish province of Córdoba. The sample measures 3.5 cm × 3.0 cm × 1.5 cm (1.38 in × 1.18 in × 0.59 in). Photograph credit: David Ifar Recently featured: John Tarleton Dalmatian pelican Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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