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Scottish League Cup, Second Round

Weans, Beckford Street School, Hamilton, one hundred years ago. Source.

Hamilton Academical host Greenock Morton at New Douglas Park (sorry, SuperSeal Stadium) in the League Cup Round of 16.

Morton and Hamilton have met three times before in League Cup play. In 1952/53 they were in Group 7. Morton won both matches. In 1983-84 they played two legs in Round 2. Hamilton won the first leg 2 - 1. Morton won the second 3 - 1 and advanced. In Round 2 of the 1996-97 cup they played to a 1 - 1 draw. Morton won on penalty kicks.

Morton and the Accies have played in the same division six years in this 21st century. In those 24 games Morton won twice. The last time, Hamilton won 10 - 2. Dougie Imrie plays for Accies.

Hamilton won Group G with 9 points. They had three wins (against Livi, Edinburgh City, and St Mirren) and a loss (to Ayr United), with a +5 goal difference.

This is Hamilton's third straight year in the Premiership. Though they are generally a below-the-split club, they were tops in Scotland for part of October 2014. They held Rangers to a 1 - 1 draw Saturday.

Hamilton Academical have never won the League Cup or been to the final. They made the semi-finals in 1948-49, 1960-61, and 1979-80.

Starting with 2015-16 and going backward to 2000-01, which teams have eliminated Morton from the League Cup? St Johnstone, Partick, St Johnstone, Aberdeen, St Mirren, St Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Inverness CT, Dundee, Brechin City, Ayr United, Motherwell, Dundee United, St Mirren, old Airdrieonians, Clyde. Which teams have eliminated Hamilton? Raith Rovers, Aberdeen, St Johnstone, St Mirren, Ross County, Raith Rovers, Ross County, Rangers, Dundee United, Queen's Park, Motherwell, Kilmarnock, St Johnstone, Ross County, Dundee, East Stirlingshire.

Morton have signed Kudus Oyenuga, previously of Hartlepool United, and Aidan Nesbitt on loan from Celtic. There's your striker.

[Morton win 1 - 2. Morton goals by Forbes and Quitongo. Hamilton goal by Imrie. On to the quarter finals. Match report.]

Other games involving Championship clubs:

Dundee United [3 - 1] Partick

Hibs [1 - 3] QoS

Ayr United [1 - 2] Aberdeen (tomorrow)

Olympics:

Men's football, August 7th: Japan 2 - 2 Colombia

Tomorrow: Japan [1 - 0] Sweden

Women's football today: Germany [1 - 2] Canada

[Japan are out. Canada progress.]

Porte-Plume

Page 4 of Bécassine Among the Allies sees our heroine make the technological leap from porte-plume (nib pen) to stylo (fountain pen). The porte-plume was the standard writing instrument of the 19th Century, and was essentially a metal nib on a stick. The writer dipped the pen into an inkwell, and so controlled the amount of ink in the instrument. The stylo or fountain pen, which dominated the handwriting world in the first half of the 20th Century, had the virtue of portability, as a large amount of ink could be stored in the hollow handle. Unfortunately this ink would occasionally gush forth, as Bécassine discovers, and as Charlie Brown was still discovering in the 1950s. The ballpoint pen of the later 20th Century reduced (but did not eliminate) the risk of ink stains, but lost the nib edge, thereby destroying the art of handwriting. Many cartoonists still use a nib pen. Source: Musée de l'Ecole de Chartres et d'Eure-et-Loir.

Syddansk Universitet

The campuses of Syddansk Universitet. It was founded as Odense Universitet in 1966, and reorganized in 1998.

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To Cherish the Interests of Literature and the Sciences

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chapter V, Section II:

Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments among the people.

 

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