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The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864, in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Carlton quickly became a dominant club in early Australian rules football competitions, and was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals Collingwood, Essendon, and Richmond, is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, having won sixteen VFL/AFL premierships, equal with Essendon as the most of any AFL club. Carlton's headquarters and training facilities are located in Carlton North at Princes Park, its traditional home ground, and it currently plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket ...

What is the latest research on sleep? Aug. 31, 2023 — New animal research suggests that little-studied brain cells known as astrocytes are major players in controlling sleep need and may someday help humans go without sleep for longer without negative. How is sleep research? Sleep tests at a sleep center usually last overnight. Removable sensors will be placed on your scalp, face, eyelids, chest, limbs, and a finger. These sensors record your brain waves, heart rate, breathing effort and rate, oxygen levels, and muscle movements before, during, and after sleep.

  What is special about the 11th of August? 2023 Daily Holidays that fall on August 11, include: Annual Medical Checkup Day. Ingersoll Day. National Hip Hop Day. National Kool Aid Day - August 11, 2023 (Second Friday in August) August 11  is the 223rd day of the year (224th in  leap years ) in the  Gregorian calendar ; 142 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ] 3114 BC  – The  Mesoamerican Long Count calendar , used by several  pre-Columbian   Mesoamerican  civilizations, notably the  Maya , begins. 2492 BC  – Traditional date of the defeat of  Bel  by  Hayk , progenitor and founder of the  Armenian  nation. 106  – The south-western part of  Dacia  (modern  Romania ) becomes a  Roman province :  Roman Dacia . 355  –  Claudius Silvanus , accused of treason, proclaims himself  Roman Emperor  against  Constantius II . 490 ...

  North Korea warns of flood damage after tropical storm drenches South  SEOUL, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Heavy downpours continued to soak South and North Korea on Friday as tropical storm Khanun swept over the peninsula after pummelling Japan, putting Pyongyang on high alert for flood damage. The storm weakened into a tropical depression as it crossed into North Korea overnight, and military and ruling party officials were mobilised to minimise its impact on the country's fragile economy.   Almost 16,000 people were evacuated, but about 60% of them had returned home as of 6 a.m. (2155 GMT Thursday), and about 350 flights and 450 train routes were cancelled, according to the interior ministry. One person was missing in the southeastern city of Daegu after falling into a river in a wheelchair, and another person was reported dead in the same city, but the ministry said neither case was directly linked to the storm. In some parts of South Korea, cumulative rainfall has toppe...

  Fifa Women's Football The Swedish team has been traditionally recognized as one of the world's best women's teams and won the  1984 European Competition for Women's Football . Like the equally successful  men's  counterpart, the women's team also became runners-up at a  World Cup  ( 2003 ) and three  European Championships  ( 1987 ,  1995  and  2001 ), as well as participating at six  Olympic Games , eight World Cups and ten European Championships. Sweden also finished third at the  1991 ,  2011  and  2019  World Cups. The 2003 World Cup-final was the only second time Sweden ever reached the final of a FIFA World Cup after the  1958 FIFA World Cup Final , and was the second most watched event in Sweden that year.  Lotta Schelin  is the top goalscorer in the history of Sweden with 85 goals. Schelin surpassed  Hanna Ljungberg 's 72-goal record against  Germany  on 29 Octobe...

The Nigeria women's national football team , nicknamed the Super Falcons, is one of the top teams in Africa. The team has had a number of significant achievements. As of 2021, they have won the Africa Women Cup of Nations (AWCON) a record nine times, asserting their dominance in the African continent. They made their debut in the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991, and have qualified for every tournament since, becoming one of the continent's most consistent representatives on the global stage. Notable players have included Asisat Oshoala, who has been awarded the African Women's Footballer of the Year multiple times and has played for top clubs in Europe including FC Barcelona. This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Nigeria national football team . Nigeria Nickname(s) Super Falcons Association Nigeria Football Federation  (NFF) Confederation CAF  (Africa) Sub-confederation WAFU  (West Africa) Head coach Randy Waldrum [1] [2] Captain Chiamak...