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The 2005 Texas Longhorns football team represented The University of Texas at Austin during the college football season of 2005–2006, winning the Big 12 Conference Championship and the national championship. The team was coached by Mack Brown, led on offense by quarterback Vince Young, and played its home games at Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium. The team's penultimate game, the 2005 Big 12 Championship Game, was won by the largest margin of victory in Big 12 Championship Game history. Texas finished the season by winning the 2006 Rose Bowl against the University of Southern California Trojans for the national championship. Numerous publications have cited this victory and this team's season as standing among the greatest performances in college football history. The Longhorns finished as the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I-A football that year, with thirteen wins and zero losses. (more...) Recently featured: Fountain of Time – Oberon – Bog turtle Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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From Wikipedia's newest articles: ... that the redundant Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire, (pictured) stands within the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age? ... that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside? ... that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"? ... that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games? ... that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza, a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City's tallest building? ... that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany? ... that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608? ... that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco, the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves? ... that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century? Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

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Hurricane Earl, a major Category four hurricane that has already battered the northern Leeward Islands, impacts the East Coast of the United States with mandatory evacuations of 30,000 people in North Carolina. In the Iraq War, Operation Iraqi Freedom concludes and Operation New Dawn begins, marking the end of foreign combat operations in Iraq. The discovery of Balaur (artist's impression pictured), a new genus of dinosaurs closely related to Velociraptor, is announced. Argentine footballer Francisco Varallo, the last surviving player from the inaugural FIFA World Cup, dies at the age of 100. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
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September 2: Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism, 2010); National Day in Vietnam (1945); Democracy Day in Tibet (1960); Onam (Malayalees) 31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Troops supporting Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the naval Battle of Actium on the Ionian Sea near Actium in Greece. 1666 – A large fire began on London's Pudding Lane and burned the city for three days (pictured), destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants. 1901 – U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first uttered the famous phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force. 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam became the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. 1990 – The small country of Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but independence has only been recognized by Abkhazia and South Ossetia, who are also partially recognised states. 1998 – Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board. More anniversaries: September 1 – September 2 – September 3 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now September 2, 2010 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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