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Manchester United

Manchester United also known as “The Red Devils” is an English professional football (soccer) team based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Manchester United is one of the richest and best-supported football clubs not only in England but in the entire world. The club has won the English top-division league championship a record 20 times and the Football Association (FA) Cup 11 times.

The club was formed as Newton Heath LYR in 1878 by workers from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Renamed Manchester United in 1902 (136 years ago), the club won its first English league championship in 1907–08.

Manchester United’s history since World War II has been dominated by two long-serving managers. Sir Matthew Busby was appointed manager in 1945 and over the next 24 years steered the club to five English league and two FA Cup victories.

The club had to contend with tragedy in 1958 when an aircraft carrying the team crashed in Munich, killing 23 of the 44 onboard. In the 1960s the team, rebuilt by Busby, included the highly talented attacking trio of Bobby Charlton, George Best, and Denis Law. Later in 1968 this team became the first English club to win the European Cup (now known as the Champions League) with a 4–1 victory over Benfica of Portugal in the final.

The former coach of the Scottish team Aberdeen, Alex Ferguson, managed the club from 1986 to 2013 and presided over an unparalleled spell of dominance in the English league.

Manchester United has won 12 Premier League titles since that league’s inaugural season in 1992–93. In the 1998–99 season the club secured the first “treble” in English football history by winning the Premier League, the FA Cup, and the Champions League. A second Champions League victory came in the 2007–08 season.

Manchester United is renowned for its youth team program, which has generated many notable homegrown players who later performed for the club’s first team, including David Beckham.

The club has also brought in a number of major transfer signings over the years, such as Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Andy Cole, Roy Keane, Eric Cantona, Patrice Evra, Dimitar Berbatov, and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Cicadas – The Loudest Singer


Cicadas – The Loudest Singer

Cicadas are the loudest singers in the insect world. These large winged insects snap thin membranes on their thorax to produce a loud chirping that resembles the sound of locusts.

Infact, some cicadas are often called “seven-year locusts” or “seventeen-year locusts”, though they are not locusts at all.

The latter variety spends seventeen years eating and growing in underground passageways, then emerges for only a few weeks of sunshine before dying.

Seventeen years later, a new generation of cicadas will emerge from the ground. These creatures thus constitute the longest lived species in the insect kingdom.

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