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The teams' helmets and match tickets

The 2008 Orange Bowl was a bowl game between the college football teams Virginia Tech Hokies and Kansas Jayhawks on January 3, 2008, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Tech was favored, but Kansas won 24–21 in a game dominated by defense. The Orange Bowl, part of the 2007–08 Bowl Championship Series, was the final game for both teams and was watched by more than eight million FOX viewers in the US. Tech qualified by being the ACC champion, while Big 12 team Kansas was selected by the Orange Bowl. Tech was designated as the home team at the neutral venue. This was the first Orange Bowl appearance for Kansas since 1969 and for Tech since 1996. Todd Reesing, quarterback for Kansas, completed 20 of his 37 passes for 227 yards, a touchdown, and an interception, and Tech quarterback Sean Glennon had 13 for 28 passing, earning 160 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Kansas cornerback Aqib Talib scored with an interception touchdown and won the Most Valuable Player award. (Full article...)

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

• ... that South African
  Bollywood music
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• ... that the 100-player board game Cartographers has a crowdfunded expansion set?
• ... that bass-baritone Johann-Werner Prein took part in the 1994 premiere of Erwin Schulhoff's only opera, Flammen, which the Nazis had suppressed?
• ... that the director of the 1936 film The Love Wanga was threatened by having a wanga placed in his car?
• ... that artist Heather Doram won Antigua and Barbuda's national competition to design a new national costume?
• ... that
  gender reassignment surgery
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• ... that WAAF Corporal Elspeth Henderson remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb?
• ... that the Glen Rock is very gneiss?

Betty White

• American actress and comedian Betty White (pictured) dies at the age of 99.
• In Hong Kong, Stand News closes down after its staff are arrested for sedition.
• The Supreme Court of Russia orders the closure of Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights group, for violations of the foreign agent law.
• In cricket, Australia retains the Ashes after winning the first three Tests against England.

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James Lick telescope

• 1521 – Pope Leo X issued Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther for refusing to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings.
• 1888 – The 36-inch (91 cm) refracting telescope (pictured) at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time.
• an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East
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• 1976 – The multilateral International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, part of the International Bill of Human Rights, came into effect.
• Palestinian National Authority
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