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Martin Brodeur (born 1972) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire 19-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the New Jersey Devils. He has won three Stanley Cup championships and has been in the playoffs every year but two. Brodeur has won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, as well as several other medals with Team Canada in other international competitions. Brodeur is the NHL's all-time leader in regular season wins, losses, shutouts, and games played, and holds numerous other league and franchise records. Brodeur won at least 35 games in every season between 1996–97 and 2007–08, and is the only goalie in NHL history with eight 40-win seasons. He is a four-time Vezina Trophy winner, a five-time Jennings Trophy winner, a ten-time NHL All-Star, a Calder Memorial Trophy winner, and one of only two NHL goaltenders to have scored goals in both the regular season and the playoffs. Brodeur uses a hybrid style of goaltending by standing up more than butterfly style goalies. Brodeur's prowess in puck handling directly led the NHL to change its rules regarding when goalies were allowed to handle the puck outside of the goal crease. (more...) Recently featured: Ram Narayan – Red-tailed Black Cockatoo – Invasion of Tulagi Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that the debates from the 1976 European Communist Conference (commemorative stamp pictured) were censored by Pravda, but not by Neues Deutschland? ... that Bach's cantata Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe, BWV 108, for Cantate Sunday, has Gospel text sung by the bass as vox Christi and by the choir in three fugues? ... that Patrick Corbin set a Mobile BayBears franchise record when he pitched 27¹⁄₃ consecutive scoreless innings? ... that, during their fight against the Moldo-Wallachian Cuza regime, Românul editors agitated in international radical circles, assisted the rebellious Polish migrants, and feigned madness? ... that 60 mothers have been prosecuted under Alabama's chemical endangerment law? ... that guitarist Ian Antono described Nicky Astria as "the best female pop rock singer Indonesia has ever seen"? ... that the first CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion, The Sensational One, lost the title in the same night he won it? Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

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MCA (Adam Yauch) in 2007 Beastie Boys founding member Adam Yauch (pictured), better known by his stage name "MCA", dies at the age of 47. János Áder is elected President of Hungary following the resignation of Pál Schmitt. An 1895 version of The Scream, by Edvard Munch, sells at auction for a record US$120 million. Lionel Messi sets a new scoring record for a single European football season. Bolivia announces plans to nationalise local assets of the Spanish electricity company Red Eléctrica de España. Guggenheim Partners, LLC purchases the Los Angeles Dodgers for US$2.1 billion, a record for a professional sports franchise. A ferry capsizes in Assam, India, killing at least 103 people on board. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
On this day...
May 6: St George's Day in Bulgaria 1536 – The army of Inca Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui began a 10-month siege of Cuzco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro. 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart was admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums. 1782 – Construction began on the Grand Palace of Bangkok, the official residence of the King of Thailand. 1991 – Time magazine published "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", an article highly critical of the Scientology organization, leading to years of legal conflict which ended when the Church of Scientology's petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case was denied in 2001. 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (pictured) was assassinated by animal rights and environmental activist Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum. More anniversaries: May 5 – May 6 – May 7 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now May 6, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Parodia tenuicylindrica is a small species of cactus native to the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil. It grows 4–8 cm (1.6–3.1 in) in height and 2–3 cm (0.8–1.2 in) in width. It has yellow and red-brown spines, white wool and yellow flowers. It produces yellow-green fruit and black seeds.

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