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From today's featured articleThe 1927 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Cardiff City and Arsenal on 23 April 1927 at the Empire Stadium (pictured), the original Wembley Stadium. With 91,206 in attendance, the final was the showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup. A concert held before the game included "Abide with Me"; singing this song before the match has since become a cup final tradition. For the first time, the final was broadcast on the radio by the BBC. Cardiff, one of the few Welsh teams taking part in the cup competition, won the match 1–0; the goal was credited to Hughie Ferguson after his shot slipped out of the hands of Arsenal goalkeeper Dan Lewis. The victory remains the only occasion the trophy, which was previously known as the "English Cup", has been won by a team based outside England. Cardiff did not reach the FA Cup final again until 2008. (Full article...)
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Saint George (died 23 April 303) was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origin. A member of Roman emperor Diocletian's Praetorian Guard, he was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He is immortalised in the legend of Saint George and the Dragon and his feast day is celebrated on 23 April. Saint George is claimed as their patron saintbyEngland, Ethiopia, Georgia, Catalonia and several other nation states, as well as by various cities, universities, professions and organisations. This picture is a 97 cm × 34 cm (38 in × 13 in) painting of Saint George, depicted in armour with a dead dragon behind him, painted with tempera on a gold-ground wooden panelbyItalian Renaissance artist Carlo Crivelli in 1472. Originally produced as part of a polyptych altarpiece for a Dominican church in the town of Ascoli Piceno, the panel is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Painting credit: Carlo Crivelli
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