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Casey Stengel (July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was the manager of the championship New York Yankees teams of the 1950s and of the New York Mets of the early 1960s. An outfielder for the 1912 Brooklyn Dodgers, he played on their 1916 National League championship team, then for the Philadelphia Phillies, the New York Giants and the Boston Braves. In 1925, he began a career as a manager, with mostly poor finishes for the next 20 years. In 1948, after he won the PCL title with the Oakland Oaks, the Yankees hired him. In his twelve seasons, they won ten pennants and seven World Series, including a record-setting five in a row (1949–1953), but Stengel was fired after losing the 1960 World Series. The Mets were an expansion team when they hired him in late 1961. They finished last all four seasons with Stengel, and he retired in 1965. Remembered as one of the great characters in baseball history, and known for his humorous sayings, Stengel was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. (Full article...)

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Legislative Assembly House, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

There are 40 constituencies of the Mizoram Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of Mizoram state in Northeast India. The seat of the legislative assembly (pictured) is at Aizawl, the capital of the state. The assembly's 40 members are directly elected from single-seat constituencies and sit for a term of five years, unless it is dissolved early. Mizoram is the fourth-smallest state in India; and the second-least populous state with a population of 1.10 million. Since the independence of India, the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) have been given reservation status, guaranteeing political representation, and the Constitution lays down the general principles of positive discrimination for STs and SCs. The 2011 census of India stated that the indigenous population constitutes 95% of the state's total population. The STs have been granted a reservation of 39 seats in the Mizoram assembly, leaving only one (Aizawl East-I) unreserved. (Full list...)

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The tawny-bellied hermit (Phaethornis syrmatophorus) is a species in the hummingbird family, Trochilidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, where it inhabits the understory of humid montane forest and is also sometimes at forest edges and in dense secondary forest. In elevation it mostly ranges between 1,000 and 2,300 m. The tawny-bellied hermit is about 14 cm long and weighs 5 to 7 g. It has olive green upperparts, males also having reddish-orange uppertail coverts, while the central tail feathers of both sexes are long and white and the rest are dark with bright orange ends. It has either an orange or dark brown chest, depending on subspecies. Similar to other hermit hummingbirds, it is a "trap-line" feeder, visiting a circuit of a wide variety of flowering plants for nectar, and it has a song which consists of high-pitched "tsi" calls. This tawny-bellied hermit was photographed at San Isidro Lodge near Cosanga, Napo Province, Ecuador.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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