Plenty of Nothing

Quixote by Touchet

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Ōta Saburō

Woman in a Café (1914) by Ōta Saburō. Source.

Modern Mingei

Tsugaru nuri smartphone covers. Source.

Yoshitsune Doll, ca. 1850

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The Wow! Signal

The Wow! signal was a radio burst recorded by the Ohio State University Big Ear radio observatory on August 15, 1977, from an unknown source in the constellation Sagittarius. It has yet to be explained as a natural phenomenon or as an artifact of alien intelligence. Source.

Greenock / Port Glasgow

Old photographs of the border area between Greenock and Port Glasgow, with the boundary line added. Source.

Port Glasgow Football in the 1870s

Detail of the old Broadfield Hospital in Port Glasgow. The windows have since been fixed and the place converted to housing. Source.

Morton visit Raith Rovers. Morton are third in the Championship with 4 points, Raith tenth with 0 points. Raith haven't scored a goal yet in league play. Morton can move into top position with a win today if Hamilton and Queen’s Park also win.

Raith Rovers are being managed by Ian Murray, who took over in May.

Morton and Raith have played each other 50 times since January 1st, 2000, in 48 league matches and two cup games. Over that span Morton have had 17 wins, 12 draws and 21 losses against the Rovers.

The earliest match I know of between Morton and Raith Rovers was a friendly played at Cappielow on October 3rd, 1896. The newspaper scan is blurry, but it looks like Morton won 3 - 1.

Rumours of Leigh Griffiths signing with Morton have come to naught as he has joined a third-tier club in Australia.

[Raith Rovers 2 - 1 Morton. Goal by Blues.]

Other Championship matches:

Dundee (5th) 4 - 2 Arbroath (8th) (last night)

Ayr United (2nd) [2 - 2] Hamilton Academical (6th)

ICT (7th) [4 - 1] Cove Rangers (4th)

Queen's Park (9th) [3 - 2] Partick Thistle (1st)

Other matches:

Inverurie Loco Works (4th) [0 - 1] Forres Mechanics (5th)

East Kilbride (2nd) [4 - 0] Gala Fairydean Rovers (4th)

Largs Thistle (13th) [1 - 5] Kirkintilloch Rob Roy (3rd)

FC Isle of Man (13th) [2 - 1] Ashton Athletic (15th)

Mito HollyHock (12th) vs Tokyo Verdy (11th) (postponed)

HFX Wanderers [1 - 0] Valour    [Goal by Salter.]

UCD 2 - 1 Finn Harps (yesterday)

Morton Women scored six against St Mirren in a pre-season friendly midweek. 

Morton Women [4 - 1] Ayr (tomorrow)

It's the Women's Inter-Provincial Championship, between the top women's clubs in the PLSQ, League1 Ontario and League1 BC.

Alliance United [1 - 1] AS Laval    [AS Laval win on PK.]

Blainville [2 - 0] Varsity FC

[Final: Blainville 2 - 0 AS Laval (tomorrow)]

League1 Ontario (men): North Mississauga 0 - 1 Alliance United (yesterday)

By rights Alliance United should have their home field on Avenue Road, but they don't, they're from Markham.

PLSQ: Celtix du Haut-Richelieu vs Royal-Sélect de Beauport [rescheduled?]

The CSL quarter-finals take place this weekend. Serbian White Eagles, who finished first in the standings, have a bye to the semis.

Telstar 0 - 5 PEC Zwolle (yesterday)

Winterthur [1 - 1] Zurich (tomorrow)

UEFA Champions League 3QR, second leg (August 9):

Rangers 3 - 0 Union Saint-Gilloise

Rangers advance.

UEFA Europa League qualifying round, second leg:

Shkupi 1 - 2 Shamrock Rovers (August 9)

Zurich 3 - 0 Linfield (August 11)

Shamrock advance. Linfield drop down to the Europa Conference.

UEFA Europa Conference 3QR, second leg (August 11):

AZ 7 - 0 Dundee United

Sligo Rovers 1 - 0 Viking

St Patrick's Athletic 0 - 2 CSKA Sofia

Dundee United, Sligo and St Patrick's are out.

Video

Stare like a hawk at a biography of legendary referee Pierluigi Collina.

How many times have Morton outscored the opposition by at least 3 goals the past ten years?

9    2012-13

6    2017-18

4    2014-15, 2015-16, 2019-20

3    2013-14, 2016-17, 2018-19

1    2020-21, 2021-22

Historical results:

August 13, 1966    Morton 2 - 1 East Fife

The 1966-67 season began with the League Cup group stage. Morton were in Group 6 with East Fife, Third Lanark and Arbroath. Notice the comparatively late start date, over a month later than the beginning of the 2022-23 season.

August 13, 1977    Kilmarnock 0 - 3 Morton

The 1977-78 season began on the same date with a Division One (tier 2 of 3) league match. Andy Ritchie scored one goal and Mark McGhee scored two.

Port Glasgow football in the 1870s:

Port Glasgow Athletic dates back to 1878, but for the first couple of years the team was known as Broadfield, according to Wikipedia. There's a Broadfield Avenue in Port Glasgow today, about half a mile east of Clune Park, and a junior club played under the name Broadfield in the 1880s.

There was an earlier club named Port Glasgow. It made a couple of appearances in the Scottish Cup before disbanding in 1879.

The eastern neighbourhoods of Port Glasgow are named after the farming estates that were there before the town expanded, and those places often had the word Park in their name. Clune Park and Parklea were known by those names long before soccer was ever thought of.

Port Glasgow (I) in 1879-80:

1879/9/20      Port Glasgow scr/wo Johnstone Athletic    SCup R1

Broadfield 1879-80:

Nothing found.

Port Glasgow (I) in 1878-79:

1878/10/19    Barrhead 6 - 2 Port Glasgow    SCup R2

1878/9/21      Port Glasgow wo/scr Pollockshaws Athletic    SCup R1

Broadfield 1878-79:

Nothing found.

Port Glasgow (I) in 1877-78

1877/9/29      Port Glasgow 0 - 1 Thornliebank    SCup R1

1877/9/22      Stonelaw 5 - 0 Port Glasgow

(Sources: The Beautiful Dribbling Game for the Scottish Cup; Glasgow Herald for friendlies. SFHA and fitbastats were also searched but produced no results.)

Genpei War Map

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Argillite Sea Captain

Argillite figure of a sea captain, c. 1830-1850. Source.

Pugwash Salt Mine, 1971

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