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The German women's national football team represents Germany in
international women's football and is directed by the German Football
Association (DFB). The team – then informally called West Germany in
English – played its first international match in 1982. After German
reunification in 1990, the DFB squad remained the national side of the
Federal Republic of Germany. The German national team is one of the
most successful in women's football. They are two-time world champions,
having won the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Germany is the
only nation which has won both the men's and the women's World Cup. The
team has won seven of the ten UEFA European Championships, claiming the
last five titles in a row. Germany has won three bronze medals at the
Women's Olympic Football Tournament, finishing third in 2000, 2004 and
2008. The popularity of the women's national football team has grown
since the team won their first World Cup title. They were chosen as
Germany's Sports Team of the Year in 2003. Silvia Neid has been the
team's head coach since 2005, succeeding Tina Theune after nine years
as her assistant. As of September 2011, Germany is ranked No. 2 in the
FIFA Women's World Rankings. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1327:
Fourteen-year old Edward III became King of England, but the country
was ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England>
1709:
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English captain Woodes
Rogers and the crew of the Duke after spending four years as a castaway
on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández archipelago, providing
the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers>
1942:
Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of
the United States federal government, began broadcasting with programs
aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers during World War II.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America>
1968:
The Government of Canada merged the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army,
and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a unified structure, the Canadian
Forces.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Forces>
2009:
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became Iceland's first female Prime Minister
and the world's first openly gay head of government of the modern era.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3hanna_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
a priori (adj):
1. (logic) Based on hypothesis rather than experiment.
2. Self-evident, intuitively obvious
3. (linguistics, of a constructed
language) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from
existing languages
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_priori>
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crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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