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Erin Phillips (born 1985) is an Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition and a former professional basketball player. With the launch of the AFLW in 2017, Phillips began her football career at age 31. Despite not having played competitive football since she was 13 years old, Phillips won the AFLW best and fairest award by a wide margin twice in her first three seasons in 2017 and 2019. In both years, she also led Adelaide to the premiership and won best on ground in the AFLW Grand Final. Before her football career, Phillips played nine seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), winning her first WNBA title with the Indiana Fever in 2012 and another with the Phoenix Mercury in 2014. She also represented Australia on the women's national basketball team, winning a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women and serving as a co-vice captain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. (Full article...)

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Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains

... that Albert Bierstadt's landscape painting Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains (pictured) was removed from its frame and glued to an interior wall when Locusts on Hudson was rebuilt?
... that the Churchill caretaker ministry reduced the British bacon ration from four ounces (110 g) to three ounces (85 g) per week?
... that historian Jeffrey Kimball argued that the Vietnam War "was waged as much against Saigon as it was against the [Viet Cong / North Vietnamese] enemy"?
... that residents of Devdaha, Nepal, decided that a 13-year-old girl should marry her 25-year-old alleged rapist?
... that Zofia Poznańska, cipher clerk to the Red Orchestra espionage group, was captured in Belgium by the Abwehr in 1941 and hanged herself in prison in 1942?
... that the 1919 Detroit Stars, a Negro league baseball team, included three players who were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
... that when William R. Watson retired from his gallery for contemporary art in Montreal, one of his artists wrote: "You have known, and been a good friend to nearly all the artists"?
... that a chapel at the Confederate Memorial State Historic Site was formerly used for both religious services and the production of alcohol?

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COVID-19 pandemic: Disease; Virus; By location; Impact; Portal

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At the Primetime Emmy Awards, Schitt's Creek wins in seven comedy categories and Succession (Outstanding Lead Actor award winner Jeremy Strong pictured) wins in four drama categories.
In golf, Bryson DeChambeau wins the U.S. Open.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and advocate for women's rights, dies at the age of 87.
Yoshihide Suga becomes Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Shinzo Abe.

On this day

September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa

Battle of San Juan de Ulúa

1568 – Anglo-Spanish War: At San Juan de Ulúa (present-day Veracruz, Mexico), a Spanish naval fleet forced English privateers to halt their illegal trade (battle depicted).
1890 – Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
1950 – "The Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the largest recorded fire in North American history, was first recorded in present-day Nunavut and may eventually have circled the entire globe.
1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.

Robert of Knaresborough (d. 1218)
Georges Claude (b. 1870)
Gennady Yanayev (d. 2010)

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Siena Cathedral, a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, was designed and completed between 1215 and 1263. It has the form of a Latin cross with a slightly projecting transept, a dome and a bell tower. The dome rises from a hexagonal base with supporting columns and was completed in 1264. This photograph shows the interior of the dome; the gilded lantern at the top was added by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and resembles a golden sun. The trompe-l'œil coffers were painted in blue with golden stars in the late 15th century. The colonnade in the drum is adorned with images and statues of 42 patriarchs and prophets, painted in 1481 by Guidoccio Cozzarelli and Benvenuto di Giovanni.

Photograph credit: Livioandronico2013

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