Plenty of Nothing

Kelman's Bookstore

1079 Wellington Street in 1935 and 2020. Source. And Google Street View.

Saint Catherine in the Nuremberg Chronicle

Pasi Häkkinen

Goalkeeper Pasi Häkkinen played for both Lukko and Bolzano in his journeyman career. Source.

It's the Champions Hockey League Round of 16. Today is the second game of the two-game series between Lukko and Bolzano. Game One was played November 16: Bolzano 1 - 3 Lukko.

[Well, here's fine a howdy-do. Today's game between Bolzano and Lukko is cancelled due to Covid in the Lukko dressing room. As there is no window for a rematch the series win goes to the winner of the first game -- Lukko.]

The other games:

Red Bull München [3 - 2] Fribourg-Gottéron

    The first game went Fribourg-Gottéron 2 - 4 Red Bull München.

Tappara [4 - 2] Växjö Lakers

    The first game was a 2 - 2 tie.

    Olli Palola played for Tappara in 2011-12 and Växjö in 2016-17.

Red Bull Salzburg [3 - 1] Dragons de Rouen

    Rouen won the first game 3 - 0. Upset!

Rögle BK [3 - 1] ZSC Lions

    The first game went ZSC Lions 3 - 4 Rögle.

    Centre Mattias Sjögren played for ZSC Lions in 2016-17 and 2017-18 and is currently the captain of Rögle.

Sparta Praha [1 - 2] Skellefteå

    First game: Skellefteå 1 - 3 Sparta Praha.

    Slovakian defenceman Ivan Majeský played for Sparta in 2004-05 and for Skellefteå in 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Frölunda [4 - 1] Adler Mannheim

    Game One: Adler Mannheim 1 - 10 Frölunda. Oof. Apparently Mannheim were undermanned.

    Adler and Frölunda currently hold first place in their respective leagues.

    Johan Gustafsson switched from Frölunda to Adler in 2019.

Leksands IF [8 - 1] EC KAC

    Game One: KAC 4 - 0 Leksand.

    Robert Burakowsky played for both these teams, and for the Ottawa Senators.

Merle Oberon

Merla Oberon, who played Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1939), was born in Mumbai to a British father and a Sri Lankan mother. Over her career a lot of effort was put into whitewashing her ancestry, but in this portrait photograph she confronts you as a South Asian movie star. Source.

Sumas Lake

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Medjed

Medjed in the Greenfield Papyrus. This was exhibited at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in 2012, and the god was absorbed straight into Japanese popular culture. Source.

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Yverdon-les-Bains

Les bains de Yverdon-les-Bains. Source.

Morton are at Stark's Park to play Raith Rovers. Raith come into the game in second place with 26 points. Morton are eighth with 12. Raith have lost two league matches so far this season. Morton have won two.

Morton have not scored on the Rovers since 2017. Granted, Raith were in League One for three years, but they were in the Championship last year and outscored Morton 7 - 0. Morton wasted their first opportunity to get a goal September 18th when Raith won 0 - 1 at Cappielow.

The gap between fifth and sixth in the Championship is now 11 points.

Morton's Jimmy Knowles is out for the rest of the season due to injury.

[Raith 2 - 1 Morton. Goal by Ledger.]

The other Championship matches:

Queen of the South (9th) 1 - 2 Inverness CT (3rd)* (yesterday)

Kilmarnock (1st) [0 - 1] Arbroath (5th)*

Dunfermline (10th) [3 - 0] Ayr United (6th)

Partick Thistle (4th) [1 - 0] Hamilton Accies (7th)

*Plenty of Nothing Scottish Championship League Cup semi-final matches.

It's the League Cup semi-finals:

Celtic [1 - 0] St Johnstone

Rangers [1 - 3] Hibs (tomorrow)

These four have never appeared together in the League Cup semi-finals until now. Rangers have won the Cup 27 times, Celtic 19 times, Hibs 3 times, and St Johnstone only once, but that was last year.

Other matches:

Yverdon [2 - 1] Winterthur

Buckie Thistle [4 - 1] Clachnacuddin

J2: Omiya Ardija [1 - 3] Mito HollyHock (tomorrow)

JFL: Tokyo Musashino United [3 - 2] FC Kariya

Elfen Saitama [1 - 1] Urawa Reds

Bolivar [0 - 1] The Strongest (tomorrow)

Verl  2 - 4  1.FC Saarbrücken (yesterday)

SWF Championship South: Morton [0 - 3] Livingston (tomorrow)

FC Isle of Man [2 - 2] Maine Road

Forge 0 - 1 Cavalry (November 16)

That ends the Canadian Premier League regular season and leads straight to the playoff semi-finals:

Cavalry [1 - 2] Pacific

Forge [3 - 1] York United (tomorrow)

The final is scheduled for next weekend. But if Forge win their semi-final and the Hamilton Ti-Cats finish second in the CFL East, both teams will want use of the Hamilton stadium at the same time, in which case the soccer game will go a week later.

MLS playoffs, Round One:

Sporting KC [3 - 1] Vancouver Whitecaps

Canadian Championship final (tomorrow):

CF Montreal [1 - 0] Toronto FC

League of Ireland First Division playoff final (yesterday):

Bray Wanderers 0 - 2 UCD

Copa Sudamericana final:

Athletico Paranaense [1 - 0] Red Bull Bragantino

Two Brazilian teams. [And victory for the red and the black.]

South Challenge Cup Round Three:

(We're still just following West of Scotland League Premier Division clubs, plus some others.)

Bo'ness Athletic 2 - 0 Glenafton Athletic (yesterday)

Auchinleck Talbot [7 - 1] West Calder United

Beith Juniors [2 - 1] Rossvale

Blantyre Victoria [3 - 3] Broxburn Athletic [Blantyre win on PK]

Bonnyrigg Rose Athletics [4 - 0] Coldstream

Cumbernauld United [1 - 0] Glasgow United

Glenrothes [1 - 6] Clydebank

Hurlford United [2 - 1] Blackburn United

Irvine Meadow XI [5 - 2] Penicuik Athletic

Kilbirnie Ladeside [3 - 4] Caledonian Braves

Largs Thistle [1 - 2] Troon

Newmains United [0 - 4] East Kilbride

Petershill [5 - 0] Greenock Juniors

Pollok [2 - 1] Harthill Royal

Aberdeenshire Shield quarter-finals (November 17):

Keith 0 - 6 Banks O' Dee

Deveronvale 0 - 2 Huntly

Buckie Thistle 3 - 0 Formartine United

Inverurie Loco Works 5 - 0 Dyce Juniors (October 26)

Which clubs are in the 2021-22 Challenge League, when did they most recently join the second tier, and was it from above or below?

2021    Vaduz (above)

2021    Yverdon (below)

2020    Thun (above)

2020    Xamax (above)

2019    Lausanne-Ouchy (below)

2018    Kriens (below)

2015    Aarau (above)

2013    Schaffhausen (below)

2004    Wil (above)

1999    Winterthur (below)

Recent seasons of Yverdon-Sport:

2020-21    15    11      3      1    47    13    +34    36    1st, regular stage (III)

                 22    13      7      2    60    25    +35    46    1st, Promotion playoff (III)

2019-20    17    11      5      1    45    15    +30    38    1st, Promotion League (III)

2018-19    30    17      9      4    55    22    +33    60    2nd, Promotion League (III)

2017-18    30    18      2    10    64    48    +16    56    3rd, Promotion League (III)

2016-17    26    18      5      3    63    30    +33    59    1st, 1.Liga (IV)

2015-16    26    10      8      8    37    34      +3    38    5th, 1. Liga (IV)

2014-15    26    13      8      5    58    42    +16    46    2nd, 1. Liga (IV)

2013-14    26      9      6    11    38    36      +2    33    7th, 1. Liga Classic (IV)

2012-13    30      2      5    23    25    85     -60    11    16th, 1. Liga Promotion (III)

2011-12    27    14      6      7    44    40      +4    48    3rd, 1. Liga (III)

2010-11    30      6      2    22    27    64     -37    20    16th, Challenge League (II)

2009-10    30    10      9    11    50    38    +12    39    9th, Challenge League (II)

2008-09    30    14      9      7    52    41    +11    51    4th, Challenge League (II)

2007-08    34    10    13    11    39    35      +4    43    10th, Challenge League (II)

2006-07    34    12      6    16    45    60     -15    42    11th, Challenge League (II)

2005-06    36      9      5    22    38    64     -26    32    10th, Super League (I)

2004-05    34    20    10      4    59    26    +33    70    1st, Challenge League (II)

2003-04    32    12    10    10    50    37    +13    70    7th, Challenge League (II)

2002-03    22    10      6      6    36    21    +15    36    5th, NL B fall (II)

                 14      4      4      6    17    18       -1    34    4th, NL B relegation

2001-02    22    10      5      7    37    31      +6    35    5th, NL B fall (II)

                 14      8      1      5    30    26      +4            1st, NL B relegation

2000-01    22      5      6    11    27    43     -16    21    10th, NL A fall season (I)

                 14      4      7      3    23    20      +3    19    5th, NL A relegation

(Source: RSSSF, French Wikipedia.)

1999-2000

November 20, 1999.    Morton visited Livingston and lost 2 - 1. David Murie scored for Morton. Clydebank visited St Mirren and lost 2 - 1. Ian Cameron got the Clydebank goal.

Greenock Morton 1892-93:

1893/5/27      Morton 4 - 7 Partick Thistle    Greenock Charity Cup final

1893/5/6        Port Glasgow 4 - 0 Morton          friendly

1893/5/3        Morton 5 - 2 Johnstone          Greenock Charity Cup R1

1893/4/22      Hibs 2 - 3 Morton                        friendly

1893/4/15      Abercorn 5 - 3 Morton                  friendly

1893/4/1        Morton 2 - 2 Port Glasgow           friendly

1893/3/11      Johnstone 3 - 2 Morton                friendly

1893/3/4        Morton 2 - 4 Rangers                   friendly

1893/2/25      Morton 3 - 0 St Mirren           Renfrewshire Cup final

1893/2/18      Morton 1 - 0 Cambuslang           friendly

1893/1/21      Port Glasgow 4 - 2 Morton           friendly

1893/1/14      Morton 4 - 3 Saltcoats Victoria    friendly

1892/12/24    Morton 7 - 3 Dykebar                  friendly

1892/12/17    Dykebar 3 - 6 Morton            Renfrewshire Cup SF

1892/11/19    Morton 6 - 0 Renton                    friendly

1892/10/29    Morton 5 - 2 Arthurlie            Renfrewshire Cup R2

1892/10/22    Morton 5 - 1 Port Glasgow          friendly

1892/10/8      Morton 2 - 0 Kilbarchan        Renfrewshire Cup R1

1892/8/27      Renton 4 - 2 Morton                    friendly

1892/8/6        St Bernard's 5 - 0 Morton            friendly

Morton played no league football in 1892-93 and did not participate in the Scottish Cup, yet at the end of that season they were elected to the SFL. They won the Renfrewshire Cup, but that does not seem a huge accomplishment on a national scale until you consider that St Mirren, whom they beat 3 - 0, went on to finish third in the SFL. If this Renfrewshire Cup final was indeed what commended Morton to the league, then it stands out as one of Morton's most important wins.

(Sources: Glasgow Herald for the friendlies; SFHA for the Renfrewshire Cup and Greenock and District Charity Cup)

Wax Caroline Matilda

Caroline Matilda was a daughter of King George III of Great Britain, and for a time was Queen of Denmark until she was divorced and exiled for carrying on an affair. Her story was sufficiently notorious to land her in the wax museum. Source.

Norrbotten Regiment

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Bear Mosaic

Mosaic bear from the remains of Roman Bulla Regia in Tunisia. Source.