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Today's featured article Malmö FF are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club play their home matches at Swedbank Stadion. Formed on 24 February 1910, the club have won sixteen national championship titles and fourteen Svenska Cupen titles, making them the most successful club in Sweden in terms of total trophies won. Malmö FF have also won the top tier league, Allsvenskan, on three occasions when the title of Swedish champions was not decided by the outcome of that league. They were the runners-up in the 1978–79 European Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest. This feat makes them the only Scandinavian club to have made it to the final of the most prestigious club competition in European football, presently named the UEFA Champions League. The club currently play in Allsvenskan; Malmö first won this league in 1944 and most recently in the club's centennial anniversary in 2010. The team were most successful during the 1970s, when they won five Swedish championships and four national cup titles. (more...) Recently featured: W. E. B. Du Bois – Nyon Conference – St Nicholas Did you know... From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that comedian Nick Swardson (pictured) first performed stand-up comedy at the age of 18 "as a goof" and was selected to perform at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado just two years later? ... that the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society has donated over 60,000 corneas for transplantation in 57 countries, including those of the late President of Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene? ... that Paul Kelly's song "Dumb Things" was used on the soundtrack, for the Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein after Kelly's wife Kaarin Fairfax acted in a scene with Serious' wife Lulu Pinkus? ... that the Federal Web Managers Council is the steering committee for the Web Content Managers Forum, an ad hoc community of more than 2,000 U.S. government web and new media professionals? ... that near the hamlet of Barkip in North Ayrshire, the largest anaerobic digestion power plant in Scotland was completed in June 2011? ... that the New Zealand immigrant Hugh Gourley had jobs as varied as gold digger, livery trader, saddler, coach operator, undertaker and Mayor of Dunedin?

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Today's featured picture Two specimens of Pectinaria koreni, a species of ice cream cone worm, polychaete worms that build sand tubes that roughly resemble ice cream cones. The upper one is ensconced within its tube, and the lower one is the worm by itself. In both individuals, the head is to the right. Photo: Hans Hillewaert Recently featured: Thrissops formosus fossil – Return of the Great White Fleet – Nicholas Kratzer

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