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3 unusual facts about National Puzzlers' League


National Puzzlers' League

Puzzle professional Will Shortz (whose "nom", WILLz, is a play on his name - Will+"short Z") is a long-standing member and officer of the NPL, currently serving as its historian (since 1992).

In the 1960s, membership slumped significantly, but began rebounding in the "modern" puzzling era with the promotional efforts of Dmitri Borgmann, Ross Eckler, and others.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

This word was invented in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers' League, at its annual meeting.


178P/Hug–Bell

It was discovered by Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League members Gary Hug and Graham Bell and is thought to be the first periodic comet to be discovered by amateurs.

1891 Philadelphia Athletics season

The team, which had played the 1890 season in the defunct Players' League, joined the American Association as a replacement for the previous version of the Philadelphia Athletics, who were expelled after the 1890 season.

1996 J. League

J.League '96 Dream Stadium (Super Famicom video game based on the 1996 season)

1996 S.League

Geylang were comfortably defeated by 1996 J. League champions Kashima Antlers in the first round of the East Asian half of the competition, Kashima finishing with an 8-2 aggregate win.

2009–10 F. League

Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo is used for the "neutral tiebreaker" fixture.

Alberigo Evani

His honours while at AC Milan included two promotions from Serie B, three Serie A titles, two European Cups, two Italian Super Cups, two European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups, scoring the winner against Atlético Nacional in their 1989 triumph.

Almir Turković

Almir Turković (born 3 November 1970) is a retired Bosnian professional football forward who played for FK Sarajevo in Bosnia and clubs in the Croatian Prva HNL and Japanese J. League.

Branting III Cabinet

After an even election result in the general election, 1921 the Swedish Social Democratic Party got 104 seats in the Riksdag, but the Right party and the Farmers' League did also increased theirs.

British Housewives' League

The BHL concerns are that it has been carefully designed to change the world forever and will set the world on a course of global governance under the authority of the United Nations.

Another prominent chairman of the League was Dorothy Crisp, a journalist and writer of provocative articles in the Sunday Dispatch.

Cyhi the Prynce

He recorded his second mixtape, Royal Flush II, with producer CPK, and plans to work further with previous collaborators the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, No I.D. and Kanye West, as well as DJ Toomp, The Alchemist and Just Blaze.

D.C. United Hall of Tradition

The most recent inductee into the Hall of Tradition was United midfielder and current head coach, Ben Olsen was a member of the club during their late 1998 and 2009 dynasty, which included two MLS Cup honors, three MLS Supporter's Shields, a U.S. Open Cup and a CONCACAF title.

Evesham United F.C.

After a second title win in 1955 they switched to the Birmingham & District League where they were coached by former Coventry City captain Charlie Timmins during the 1960–61 season.

F. League

In F. League play, the clubs battle each other three times: once at home, once away and once in a neutral venue (generally Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo).

Fritz Hippler

As the leader of the National Socialist German Students' League of Berlin he organised an exhibition in Berlin's Humboldt University for expressionist painters, for which he was vehemently attacked by Rosenberg.

In 1933 he was appointed the district and high school group leader for Berlin-Brandenburg in the National Socialist German Students' League.

Guy Gilchrist

He has designed logos for Minor League baseball teams, including the Portland Sea Dogs, Norwich Navigators, and New Britain Rock Cats, and also designed the J. League football team Shimizu S-Pulse's mascot, Palchan.

Ibrahim Tanko

On 1 July 2007, Tanko was named assistant coach for Freiburg's reserves, leaving after 18 months, together with Karsten Neitzel, to J. League's Urawa Red Diamonds, in the same capacity, as he rejoined former Freiburg boss Volker Finke.

John T. Brush

Brush also devised a salary scale system which was designed to curtail player salaries, a move which helped contribute to the breakaway Players' League in 1890.

Plebs' League

Central to the formation of the League was Noah Ablett, a miner from the Rhondda who was at the core of a group at Ruskin College, Oxford who opposed the lecturers' opposition to Marxism.

Roy Johnston

As a student in Trinity he was associated with a Marxist group, the Promethean Society, which in 1948 was part of the formation of the Irish Workers’ League, eventually becoming the Communist Party of Ireland.

Seattle Sounders FC Community Shield

Ryan Pore, a former tryalist for the Sounders, gave an assist to O. J. Obatola a Portland tryalist from Gombak United FC of the Singapores S. League.

The Miners' Next Step

The pamphlet was written by the 'Unofficial Reform Committee' a group of syndaclist and socialists involved in the Plebs' League and the Cambrian Combine strike of 1910-11.

Tobitakyū Station

It serves as the main train station for access to Ajinomoto Stadium, home of J. League football teams F.C. Tokyo and Tokyo Verdy.

Tomoaki Makino

On January 2012, he returned to J. League, loaned by 1. FC Köln to Urawa Reds, when he will be coached again by his former Sanfrecce's coach, Mihailo Petrović.


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