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The 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl was a postseason bowl game between the college football teams South Carolina Gamecocks and Connecticut Huskies on January 2, 2010, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama; it ended in a 20–7 victory for Connecticut. Both teams had a 7–5 regular season record. Connecticut's tumultuous season had seen a victory at Notre Dame, and the murder of Jasper Howard, their cornerback. Connecticut scored twice in the first quarter: on a one-handed 37-yard touchdown reception by wide receiver Kashif Moore and then on a 33-yard field goal after South Carolina failed to convert a fourth-down play at its 32-yard line. Andre Dixon, Connecticut's running back, scored on a 10-yard rush early in the fourth quarter. South Carolina scored its sole touchdown on a two-yard run by Brian Maddox after the game had effectively been decided. Dixon was named player of the game, and finished with 126 rushing yards and one touchdown. (Full article...)

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Salvador Dalí jumping while three cats fly through the air

... that before photographer Philippe Halsman decided to photograph three cats flying through the air (pictured), surrealist artist Salvador Dalí had wanted to blow up a duck with dynamite?
... that Jack Washburn was called "Cinderella Boy" for winning a starring role in his first Broadway show?
... that the India national team were victorious in football at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games?
... that Bob Albright won his first primary election for the Alabama House of Representatives against a neighbor who lived on the same street as him?
... that the allegedly haunted Capitol Hill mystery soda machine "went for a walk" one day and never returned?
... that teacher Mary Creighton Bailey was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her services in the improvement of education in Germany shortly after World War II?
... that a winter storm in December 2017 cancelled an attempt at the world's largest snowball fight at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey?
... that Colonel Sanders created a competing restaurant to KFC, and was sued by KFC?

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Parliament Hill, Ottawa

1857 – Queen Victoria announced the choice of Ottawa (pictured), then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops attacked United Nations forces in the first of two battles at Wonju.
1993 – Brandon Teena, an American trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska; his death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.
1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the euro.
2006 – War in Somalia: Transitional Federal Government forces attacked the last stronghold of the Islamic Courts Union in the town of Jilib.

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The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by the French composer Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, the opera's protagonist. It was Offenbach's final work; he died in October 1880, four months before it premiered in Paris. This illustration of the opera's premiere, attributed to Pierre-Auguste Lamy, depicts the Olympia act, based on a portion of Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann".

Illustration credit: Pierre-Auguste Lamy (attributed); restored by Adam Cuerden

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