What Is the World Cup? The Games Kick Off Italian Winning Streak—1934 and 1938 The World Cup Returns Pelé First-Timers and Repeaters Red-Card Mania The World Cup Comes to the United States Two Hosts and a Head Butt Protests Controversy The Winners and the Hosts Timelines Photographs Bibliogr...
with a base trimmed with malachite stripes, depicts human figures propping up the globe. The names of the winning countries are engraved at the bottom of the trophy. On December 18, 2022, Argentina won the World Cup for the third
In 2026, 48 teams take part in the World Cup -- 45 qualifying nations plus the three host countries. It's been confirmed that, as hosts, United States, Mexico and Canada won't have to go through the North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF) qualifying competition....
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Hoosier Hotshots—I picked up this compilation off Discogs on a lark and it has been in regular rotation ever since. Marketed as a musical comedy ensemble in the 1930s, these guys played the tightest Country/Jazz I’ve ever heard, and with mindblowing virtuosity. A blast from start to fi...
The Chicago Cubs were another cursed team. Heading into the 2003 baseball season, the team hadn't won a World Series in 95 years. The '03 team had the third-best record in the league and it seemed possible that they would finally break the Cubs' losing streak. Except on Oct. 14, 200...
I have to say though bussin' is the right word to use when describing the best burrito in the Show-Me State.
Such as this attack on a Jewish club in Baghdad in 1938: By the mid 1930s, Nazi ideology was widely spreading through Iraq (and much of the MENA region). The idea that Israel, which at the time was overrun with refugees flooding into the country, would be agitating for more makes no...
And looking back to what things cost in the U.S. and Sioux Falls 50 years ago (that's the early 1970's) you might think things were, well, cheap.For example, if you hopped into the Plymouth or Pontiac or Mercury and stopped at the full-service neighborhood gas station, it would run...
There’s October’s Zenyatta Stakes, which she’s won three years in a row. Or he could possibly hold off and save her for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, where she’d go up against the top runners in the country. “But she doesn’t have to do that,” says Mandella. “She’s done...