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UEFA Euro 1984
The 1984 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in France from 12 to 27 June 1984.
It was the seventh European Football Championship, a competition held every four years and endorsed by UEFA.
At the time, only eight countries took part in the final stage of the tournament, seven of which had to come through the qualifying stage.
France qualified automatically as hosts of the event; led by Michel Platini, who scored nine goals in France's five matches, "Les Bleus" won the tournament – their first major international title.
The hosting of the event was contested by bids from France and West Germany.
The French bid was unanimously selected by the UEFA Executive Committee at a meeting on 10 December 1981.
The opening game of tournament featured France and Denmark.
The sides played out a very close encounter until Michel Platini's goal on 78 minutes gave the hosts a 1–0 victory.
The opening game also saw a premature end to the tournament for Danish midfielder Allan Simonsen, who suffered a broken leg.
Platini then scored hat-tricks against both Belgium and Yugoslavia as the French recorded maximum points in Group 1.
Denmark took second place in the group with victories over Belgium and Yugoslavia, while Belgium finished third with two points.
Yugoslavia, despite going out with no points, gave the hosts a fright in their last group game when they took a 1–0 lead into half-time and then reduced France's 3–1 lead to one goal six minutes from time.
The games in Group 1 were unusually high-scoring, and featured 23 goals over the six matches.
Group 2 provided fewer goals, but produced a huge surprise as West Germany failed to qualify for the semi-finals after a 1–0 defeat in their last match to Spain with a late goal by Antonio Maceda, and a late Portugal win against Romania that sent the holders out.
The first semi-final between France and Portugal is often considered one of the best matches in the history of the European Championship.
Jean-François Domergue opened the scoring for France but Portugal equalised through Rui Jordão on 74 minutes.
The game went to extra time and Jordão scored again in the 98th minute to give the Portuguese a shock lead, but the French rallied and Domergue equalised with six minutes left.
Then, in the dying moments of the match and with a penalty shoot-out looming, Platini scored his eighth goal of the championship to give France a memorable 3–2 victory.
The other semi-final between Spain and Denmark saw two evenly matched sides draw 1–1 after extra time, as Søren Lerby's goal after only seven minutes was cancelled out by Maceda’s strike an hour later.
The match went to a penalty shoot-out, and Spain converted all five of their penalties to win 5–4 and reach the final for the first time since 1964.
The final was played to a capacity crowd at the Parc des Princes in Paris.
Just before the hour mark, Platini scored from a free-kick to put France ahead following a mistake by Spanish goalkeeper Luis Arconada.
France were reduced to ten players when Yvon Le Roux was sent off, but Spain were unable to equalise, and Bruno Bellone's goal in injury time made the final score 2–0.
France had won their first major championship in world football.
After trying out several formats, UEFA finally developed for the 1984 tournament the format that would serve for all subsequent eight-team European Championships.
The eight qualified teams were split into two groups of four that played a round-robin schedule.
The top two teams of each group advanced to semi-finals (reintroduced after being absent from the 1980 tournament) and the winners advanced to the final.
The third place play-off, widely perceived as an unnecessary chore, was dropped.
As usual at the time, a win was credited with two points only, teams on equal points were ranked by goal difference instead of head-to-head results, and the sudden-death rule in extra time did not apply.
Fixtures were scheduled according to an innovative rotation schedule in which each team played its three first-round matches in three different stadia.
Host France, for instance, played in Paris, Nantes, and Saint-Étienne.
This formula had the advantage of exposing residents of a given city to more teams but implied multiple and sometimes costly trips from town to town for fans who wanted to follow their side.
In subsequent championships, the organisers reverted to conventional schedules in which teams played in one or two cities only.
Very few hooligan-related incidents were recorded throughout the tournament.
Only one minor instance of fan trouble was recorded, in Strasbourg around the West Germany vs. Portugal match.
The small group of German hooligans responsible for the incidents was arrested and deported back to West Germany on the same day using a new law specially passed by the French Parliament ahead of the Euro.
Overall, the organisation was flawless, a feat that established France's credentials as a host nation and eventually helped it win the right to stage the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
The entire competition was marked by exceptionally fine weather which, along with the high quality of play throughout the tournament (a welcome change from the 1980 European Championship) and the absence of hooligans, contributed to a very positive and enjoyable experience for teams and fans alike.
The official mascot of this European Championship was Peno, a rooster, representing the emblem of the host nation, France.
It has the number 84 on the left side of its chest and its outfit is the same as the French national team, blue shirt, white shorts and red socks.
France's winning bid to host the Euro was based on seven stadia.
The 48,000-seat Parc des Princes in Paris was the venue for the opening match and the final.
Built in 1972, it was still state-of-the-art in 1984 and needed minor improvements only.
Marseille's Stade Vélodrome was expanded to 55,000 seats to host one semi-final and some group matches, becoming France's largest stadium on the occasion.
Stade de Gerland in Lyon, the venue for the other semi-final and some group matches as well, was thoroughly renovated and expanded to 40,000.
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Étienne and Stade Félix-Bollaert in Lens were the other existing stadia that hosted group matches and were expanded to 53,000 and 49,000, respectively.
Lastly, two all-new stadia were built to host group matches (and subsequently provided worthy home grounds for the traditionally strong local club teams): Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes (53,000) was built on an entirely new site while Stade de la Meinau in Strasbourg was rebuilt from the ground up on the site of the old stadium into a modern 40,000-seat arena.
Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players.
The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the two groups progress to the semi-finals, while the bottom two teams in each group were eliminated from the tournament.
"All times are local, CEST ()."
If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:
In the knockout phase, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.
For the first time at a European Championship, there was no third place play-off.
"All times are local, CEST ()."
369 (number)
Three hundred sixty-nine is the natural number following three hundred sixty-eight and preceding three hundred seventy.
369 is the magic constant of the "9" × "9" magic square and the "n"-Queens Problem for "n" = 9.
There are 369 free octominoes (polyominoes of order 8).
369 is also:
Westsylvania Heritage Corporation
The Westsylvania Heritage Corporation (formerly the Allegheny Heritage Development Corporation) is a public organization centered in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
It was created in the late 1990s by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, a federal commission made to oversee the America's Industrial Heritage Project.
Westsylvania's aims are to promote the history and protect the identity of western Pennsylvania; among its actions toward these ends was the publication of "Westsylvania" magazine, a quarterly periodical on the history of and life in the region, which was issued from 1997 through 2006, when it ceased publication for lack of funding.
Sugar River
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Machiko Soga
Machiko was born in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.
She had humble upbringings and was raised to be a singer, though her talents were with acting.
She was “discovered” after doing a play in Tokyo Center.
From that night on, her life would forever change as she met many important figures in the world of Japanese television.
Her mother died when she was a child; she was raised by her father.
She had two brothers and a sister.
One of her brothers died during the Second World War; the other is still alive.
Her father died of cancer in 1991.
In 1973, she went to study in Italy for two years.
After taking jazz dance lessons for a number of years, her first roles were mainly radio and voice character roles.
She made her debut on NHK’s radio drama "Chorinmura to Kurumi no Ki" (1961), and later gained fame as the first voice actor to portray the lovable ghost Q-taro in "Obake no Q-tarō" (TBS, 1965-1968).
However, she is best known to fans of tokusatsu for her villainous roles in the Super Sentai franchise such as Queen Hedrian in "Denziman" and "Sun Vulcan", she also appeared in "Maskman" portraying Tube Empire's field commander, Baraba's mother for one episode, as well as the evil sorceress Bandora in "Zyuranger", better known to audiences in English speaking countries as Rita Repulsa in the American adaptation of "Zyuranger", "Power Rangers".
In an odd twist, she soon found herself re-dubbing her own lines as Rita when "Power Rangers" was broadcast in Japan after the show became a surprise hit in America.
Her final tokusatsu role was Magiel, Queen of the Sky Saints in "Magiranger", which incidentally was one of her few non-villainous roles.
In her memory, the producers of "" used footage of Soga as Magiel to depict a reformed Rita Repulsa in the two-part final episode of "Mystic Force", “Mystic Fate”.
Her very final role was in the PlayStation 2 game "Space Sheriff Spirits" as the voice and the “face” of Ankoku Ginga Jyoou (Dark Galaxy Queen), last boss and original character of this game inspired to the 80s Metal Hero series.
Soga also played the voices of Cyborg 007 in the 1968 "Cyborg 009" anime series and the sidekick Ball Boy in 1984 series "Machineman".
Machiko also ran her own shop, selling jewellery, antique clothing, and tapestry among other goods.
In early August 2005, it was revealed that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about two years earlier.
On the morning of May 7, 2006, she was found dead by a friend visiting her home.
She was 68 years old.
Her interment was in Fuchū, Tokyo's Tama Reien Cemetery.
The Raven (Lou Reed album)
The Raven is the nineteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in 2003 by Sire Records.
It is a concept album, recounting the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song, and was based on his 2000 opera co-written with Robert Wilson, "POEtry".
"The Raven" features new and very different versions of two songs that Reed had released on earlier albums: "Perfect Day" (originally found on 1972's "Transformer") and "The Bed" (from 1973's "Berlin").
In addition to Reed, the album features a number of guest vocalists including Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Antony Hegarty, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe.
The co-producer of the album, Hal Willner, had previously overseen the Poe tribute album "Closed on Account of Rabies".
The recording was simultaneously released as a two-disc set of recordings and in an edited single-disc version.
Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel created the cover.
"The Raven" would prove to be the final solo rock album by Reed, as 2007's "Hudson River Wind Meditations" consisted entirely of meditational new-age music, and 2011's "Lulu" was a collaborative rock album with heavy metal band Metallica.
All tracks written by Lou Reed.