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“Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.” -Winston Churchill

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Unpopular opinion I have always thought that Ally McCoist deserved more time as Rangers manager.

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"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." -Charles de Gaulle

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💙Happy 56th Birthday Brian Laudrup. The former Bayern Munich player joined #Rangers in 1994 for £2.3m from Fiorentina. Over 4yrs the Hall of Famer played 150 games, scored 44 goals, including the goal that won #9IAR, and won 3 Titles, 1 Scottish Cup, 1 League Cup & 3 PotY Awards

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💙Happy 52nd Birthday Shota Arveladze. Joined #Rangers in 2001 from Ajax for £3m. He played 132 games, scored 57 goals and won 2 Titles, 2 Scottish Cups & 2 League Cups, including a Treble and our Helicopter Sunday League triumph. He left Ibrox for free in 2005 to join AZ Alkmaar

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🗓 #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ : #Rangers reach the last 16 of the UEFA Cup with a 4-0 win (5-2 on agg) over Hapoel Tel Aviv at Ibrox (46.2k). Barry Ferguson(2), Kris Boyd & Charlie Adam scored. Allan McGregor saw red and received a 2 game ban for violent conduct. We'd meet Osasuna next.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ : After becoming the 1st SPL Club to reach the #UCL last 16, #Rangers draw 2-2 in the 1st Leg with Villarreal at Ibrox (49.3k). We came back twice from Juan Riquelme & Diego Forlan goals. Peter Lovenkrands scored before Thomas Buffel forced a Juan Pena OG.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣8️⃣8️⃣2️⃣ : #Rangers 1st Captain, Tom Vallance, leaves Scotland for a career on Indian Tea plantations. He almost died from Malaria and returned home months later, he played 3 more times for us, but illness took its toll and he was appointed Club President in 1883.

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The only known photo of Star Wars creator George Lucas meeting Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.

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On This Day In 1916: The Battle of Verdun began. It would last for over 300 days, the longest battle of the First World Wara and one of the bloodiest battles in history. Almost 300,000 soldiers died in an effort to "bleed France white."

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On This Day In 1705: Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke was born. He was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As captain of the third-rate HMS Berwick, he took part in the Battle of Toulon in February 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession.

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On This Day In 1965: Malcolm X was assassinated in Manhattan, New York City, United States.

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On This Day In 1824: Eugène de Beauharnais died. He was a French statesman and military officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Through the second marriage of his mother, Joséphine de Beauharnais, he was the stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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On This Day In 1590: Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick died. He was an English nobleman and general, and an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

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On This Day In 1437: King James II, just six years old, ascended to the throne of Scotland following the assassination of his father, King James I.

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On This Day In 1437: King James I of Scotland was assassinated in Perth on the night of 20/21 February 1437, James was assassinated in Perth during a failed coup by his uncle Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl. He was succeeded by his son King James II.

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21 Feb 1917 // Fleet messenger HMS Princess Alberta (ex SS Princess Alberta, Langlands & Sons merchant steamer) struck a mine laid by German submarine UC.23 in Mudros Bay in the Aegean and sank with the loss of 33 naval personnel and 52 soldiers. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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21 Feb 1916 // HM Trawler Carlton, a minesweeper, was patrolling boom defences east of Folkestone when a mine exploded underneath her stern. A boat was launched before she sank, but capsized, and only two men of her 11 crew survived to be picked up an hour later. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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21 Feb 1813 // 10-gun brig sloop HMS Rhodian struck a reef at the entrance to Port Royal, Jamaica, through mistaking her channel while approaching the harbour after dark. There were no casualties. Crew, guns and stores were all taken off before she sank. #RoyalNavy #Shipwreck #NavalHistory

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21 Feb 1805 // 12-gun brig HMS Bouncer ran aground on a sandbank off the French coast between Dieppe and Boulogne, and began to leak as waves struck her. All crew were unhurt but were taken prisoner. The brig was later salvaged and taken into French service. #RoyalNavy #Shipwreck #NavalHistory

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21 Feb 1758 // 74-gun 3rd rate HMS Invincible (ex French L'Invincible, captured 1747) struck a sandbank in the eastern Solent. Stayed upright for 3 days before her pumps failed and she flooded, rolled over and sank. No lives lost. (National Maritime Museum image) #RoyalNavy #Shipwreck #NavalHistory

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When was the last time a killer whale was held in captivity in Britain? This is a question that is bugging me, and I have not been able to find an answer to it, and I'm wondering if anyone on here knows the answer to it

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Does Ryan Kent actually have a pet crocodile?

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“Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ : #Rangers go 18pts clear of Celtic, requiring only 7 more points from our last 8 games to become Champions, after a 4-1 win over Dundee Utd at Ibrox. Hagi, Kent, Aribo & Morelos scored. Gerrard said "We've got to finish the job. We have won nothing yet"

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣9️⃣ : #Rangers go top of the SPL with a 3-1 win over Kilmarnock at Ibrox(50k). Kris Boyd & MotM Kenny Miller(2) scored. Walter Smith said "It's nice to be top of the league but we have to keep winning." We lost only 1 of our remaining 11 games to win the Title.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ : Nacho Novo scores to send #Rangers into the UEFA Cup last 16 on away goals after a 2nd leg 1-1 draw with Panathinaikos in Athens. Allan McGregor made several crucial saves. Walter said "At this stage in Europe, matches are always tight". Up next W/Bremen.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ : After beating Anzhi, Dynamo Moscow & PSG, #Rangers tie 1-1 with Feyenoord in the UEFA Cup 4th Rnd 1st Leg at Ibrox(49k). Barry Ferguson scored a penalty after Lovenkrands was fouled by Loovens. Feyenoord featured Van Hooijdonk, Dahl Tomasson & Van Persie.

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Chuck Schumer 🇺🇸💯

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"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." -Plato

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣: #Rangers beat Braga 3-2 in the #UEL last 32 1st Leg at Ibrox(49.3k). We gloriously came back from 2-0 down thanks to an Ianis Hagi brace, alongside a superb Joe Aribo solo goal, to inflict the 'Minho Warriors' 1st European defeat in 14 games. #IbroxBaby

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ : Topscorer Alfredo Morelos scores 4, taking his season tally to 27, as #Rangers beat Killie 5-0 in a Scottish Cup 5th Rnd replay at Ibrox(37.9k). Andy Halliday also scored. Steve Clarke moaned afterwards about "something something, living in the dark ages"

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ : #Rangers end Celtic’s 11 game Old Firm unbeaten run at Parkhead, with a 2-0 win in Alex McLeish's 1st win at Parkhead. Gregory Vignal & Nacho Novo scored the goals to take us 3pts clear in the Title race. Shout out to Ronald Waterreus in goals.

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🗓️ #OnThisDay 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣ : #Rangers rout Dundee 6-1 at Ibrox (49.4k). Goals came from a Jorg Albertz hat-trick, a Neil McCann brace and Giovanni van Bronckhorst. The Dick Advocaat rebuild was bearing fruits as we had won the League Cup and were in hot pursuit of our 6th Treble.

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🖤Remembering Andy Penman, born #OTD in 1943. Debuted for Everton at 15 before joining Dundee where he won a title. Joined #Rangers for £30k (+George McLean) in 1967. The cultured deadball expert has been described as the greatest Ger to never win a medal. Scored 49 in 154 games.

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“The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” -Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

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