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Double-A Southern League's Nashville Xpress. Greer is one of the oldest stadiums used by a Triple-A team, and it now falls well below professional baseball's standards for a stadium at that class level. It has been the subject of numerous upgrades and repairs to keep it functioning long enough for the Sounds to secure a deal for a new ballpark. (more... ) Recently featured: USS Siboney – Mellitus – Shakespeare authorship question Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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From Wikipedia's newest articles: ... that Christiane Ziegler excavated the Tomb of Akhethetep (pictured) from 1991 to 1999? ... that when Bach derived his third cantata for Easter of 1724, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134, from his secular cantata for New Year's Day, he just wrote new text under old text? ... that poet Jacqueline Berger compares the writing process to dreaming? ... that the Falkland Islands have on average only 2–3 hours of direct sunlight per day in winter and only 6 hours in summer? ... that "Heartaches," featuring Elmo Tanner's whistling, became a number 1 hit fourteen years after it was recorded? ... that King of Mann and the Isles, has been labelled as the only known Scot who took part in the First Crusade ? ... that the upcoming 2012 film, Jack the Giant Killer (directed by Bryan Singer), is expected to take an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend? Start a new article – Nominate an article

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Indian guru and spiritual figure Sathya Sai Baba dies at the age of 84. After four months of anti-government protests, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh (pictured) agrees to step down within thirty days. At least 70 people are reported killed in the deadliest day of protests in Syria this year. The post-Soviet Russia , performs its first commercial flight. In the final . Recent deaths – More current events...
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Roman Catholic Church ) assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia , ending a twelve-day manhunt. 1944 – U.S. Navy submarines began attacks on Japan's Take Ichi convoy as it sailed in waters between Taiwan and the Philippines, eventually sinking four vessels and killing over 4,000 troops. Port Newark in New Jersey, beginning the international standardization of shipping containers . recent unrest in Tiananmen Square , which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests. murdered 16 people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany . More anniversaries: April 25 – April 26 – April 27 List of historical anniversaries It is now April 26, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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A view of the

Benjamin William Mkapa Pension Tower. The city was the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and served as the first capital of Tanzania, but lost that status to Dodoma

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