Mark Aldrich (January 22, 1802 – September 21, 1873) was a founder of Warsaw, Illinois, and a politician: Illinois state senator for the Whig Party, the first American mayor of Tucson, Arizona, and a three-term territorial senator in Arizona. He was one of five defendants tried and acquitted in Illinois of the murder in 1844 of Joseph Smith, who was founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Premier League: The youngsters who have shone in 2019-20

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Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack has urged the SPFL to "take a deep breath" and focus on how Scottish football can ensure a safe return.

Hearts owner Ann Budge and Hamilton vice-chairman Les Gray are leading a taskforce on reorganising the SPFL.

"Clubs are burning £1m a month on this. We need to be getting back to: how do we play football safely again and survive?" Cormack told BBC Scotland.

"That should be the focus of the SPFL and leadership."

The Premier League should not be criticised for discussing how the season should be concluded, says former England striker Ian Wright.

Top-flight clubs held a meeting on Friday at which finishing the season in a 40-day window was one of the scenarios discussed.

The Premier League has been criticised for holding the meeting, but Wright said people were wrong to "have a go".

"It seems like football is the punching bag," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

The Premier League has been suspended since 13 March because of coronavirus.

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A star-studded concert is taking place later to support frontline workers tackling the coronavirus outbreak.

The One World: Together At Home show will see more than 100 artists including the Rolling Stones and Billie Eilish play live from their homes.

Lady Gaga, who helped organise the concert, will also perform.

The eight-hour event run by the Global Citizen movement and the World Health Organization (WHO) is being live-streamed and broadcast on TV.

"We may be apart right now, but coming together has never been more important," Global Citizen said in a statement.

World Rugby boss Sir Bill Beaumont says he is confident a revised Nations Championship will be launched in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

Plans for a revolutionary world league were abandoned last year after World Rugby were unable to gain unanimous support from unions.

But Beaumont says the current health crisis has acted as a "reality check" for the game.

"You are pretty foolish if you don't learn lessons," said Beaumont.

Speaking to BBC 5 Live's Guest List show, he said: "In the past where people have been quite protective about what they have got, I think what we are looking at now is that this is probably a reality check in the sport [in terms of] are we doing things correctly?

"There is a real feeling I get now that there will be some variant of the Nations Championship that will come back on the table."

Sherri Schrull (née Russell; born February 8, 1958 – June 15, 2007) was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri.

Martel began her professional wrestling career in the Mid South after training in Columbia, South Carolina. She joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times. In the late 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she held the WWF Women's Championship. Also in the WWF, Martel continued to act as a manager to wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels. She appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s. In the latter, Martel acted as the manager for the tag team Harlem Heat. After leaving WCW, she made few wrestling related appearances until her death in 2007. She also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in September 2006 as a manager for Bobby Roode which ended up being her last televised wrestling appearance.

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After a British information-gathering vessel gets sunk into the sea, Agent 007 is given the responsibility of locating the lost encryption device and thwarting it from entering inimical hands.

1640s, from Late Latin inimicalis "hostile," from Latin inimicus "unfriendly; an enemy" (see enemy).

Inimical expresses both feeling and action, generally in private affairs. Hostile also expresses both feeling and action, but applies especially to public affairs: where it applies to private matters, it expresses either strong or conspicuous action or feeling, or both, or all. [Century Dictionary, 1902]

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Doctors in Japan have warned that the country's medical system could collapse amid a wave of new coronavirus cases.

Emergency rooms have been unable to treat some patients with serious health conditions due to the extra burden caused by the virus, officials say.

One ambulance carrying a patient with coronavirus symptoms was turned away by 80 hospitals before he could be seen.

Japan, which initially appeared to have the virus under control, passed 10,000 confirmed cases on Saturday.

More than 200 people have now died with Covid-19 and the capital Tokyo remains the worst-affected area.

Premier League clubs shouldn't be relegated if season isn't completed - Brighton owner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52339058

Coronavirus: Parks and cemeteries must stay open, says communities minister

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Incomparable how much better quality football is now only 30 years later - that awful Leeds side that we used to regularly beat nearly every year won the top division only 4 years later with a similar team.

Valeri "Vako" Qazaishvili (born 29 January 1993) is a professional footballer who plays for the San Jose Earthquakes and the Georgia national team as an attacking midfielder.

He debuted for Georgia's national team on 5 March 2014 in a friendly match against Liechtenstein.

Quite simply, a sire is a dog's father, dam refers to a dog's mother and a whelp is a puppy. People also use sire as a verb, meaning the act of fathering puppies.

Coronavirus lockdown: Laptops offered for online school lessons at home

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52341596

The 1998 FA Cup Final was contested by Arsenal and Newcastle United at Wembley on 16 May 1998. Arsenal won 2–0, with goals by Marc Overmars and Nicolas Anelka to complete their second league title/FA Cup double. They joined Manchester United as only the second English team to achieve this, although Arsenal did so with an entirely different set of players (their first double was in 1971, whereas United's doubles were in 1994 and 1996).

Front-line NHS staff should be given an extra £29-a-day reward for their service during the coronavirus pandemic, the Lib Dems have said.

Health and care staff could receive a financial bonus like that given to military personnel on active duty, the party suggested.

Acting leader Sir Ed Davey said Downing Street should consider creating a "front-line support package".

The government has said it is working hard to support front-line staff.

The daily financial boost that it suggests would be for the duration of the lockdown, the Lib Dems said, adding that all key workers should also receive a coronavirus service medal.

England and Manchester United's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney says he should have scored more goals despite not being a "natural" finisher.

Rooney scored 253 times to break Sir Bobby Charlton's all-time record at United, before also surpassing the latter's England tally with 53.

Writing in his Sunday Times column, the 34-year-old said: "This might surprise you, but I'm not a natural goalscorer.

"I was never a Gary Lineker or a Ruud van Nistelrooy."

After bursting onto the scene with boyhood club Everton at 16, Rooney moved to Old Trafford in 2004, and made 559 appearances for the Red Devils.

He also won 120 caps for his country.