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W ' " ' W ' - - ^ , ' - -<\ Carli Lioyd left the field to a
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j'''< 5 * fe ^ '« s** i i P , finai game with the U.S. Women’s
Soccer Team, a 6-0 win over South
KT Korea. The 39-year-old New Jersey
y‘ / native retired with two World
Cup titles and two Olympic gold
medals. Lloyd passed her no. 10
jersey to Lindsay Horan, who wiii
wear the number starting with the
2022 season.

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TWICE AS NICE

The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montreal
Canadiens 4 games to 1 in a 7-game playoff series,
winning their second Staniey Cup titie in nine months.
This time they played in front of a fuii-capacity home
crowd, unlike the previous victory over Dalias in an
empty Edmonton arena.

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THE BUCKS ARE BACK Vm i

The last time the Milwaukee Bucks won i
the NBA Fina ls, in 1971, powerhouse
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then known as iM iT » V
Lew Alcindor, led them to victory. This
year, the Bucks beat the Phoenix Suns If
in six games, 4-2, with MVP Giannis
Antetokounmpo scoring 50 points in the C?li
final game of the 2021 championship.
NYCFC CLAIM FIRST CUP
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New York City Football Club captured their first
y>. Major League Soccer Cup in franchise history.
They defeated the Portland Timbers 4-2 in a
penalty shootout. This was the Timbers second
consecutive defeat, having reached MLS Cup
three times in seven years.

SCHOOL MAKES HISTORY

For seven years, the football team at California School
for the Deaf in Riverside didn’t win a single game. Then,
in 2021, the Cubs, whose players and coaches are all
completely deaf, averaged 65.6 points per game in a
12-1 storybook season. Cubs wide receiver Enos Zornova
pointed out that communicating in ASL, their native
larrguoge, gave the Cubs an advantage, making team
hudidtes unnecessary-

TECH &TREN

POWERFUL SOLAR FLARE

In October 2021, a Class X solar flare, the most powerful category
of flares, erupted, and powerful NASA cameras captured the
activity from the closest point ever. The flare caused the aurora
borealis, or Northern Lights, to be visible in the U.S. as far south
as Utah. Powerful flares can disrupt atmospheric activity such as
GPS and communications signals.

ELECTRIC CARS 'V

Ford announced an $ 11.4 billion plan to build new battery
plants and set goals for battery-powered pickup trucks.
In addition. Ford announced an electric version of the
F-150, the F-150 Lightning, by spring 2022. GM aiso planned
new battery-production plants, and Toyota switched its
focus from hybrid to fully electric vehicles.

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Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook
BILLIONAIRE SPACE RACE as Meta in October 2021, signaling his
intent to dominate the immersive 3-D
In July 2021, NASA announced the Entrepreneurs Challenge, virtual world. As already seen in 3-D
calling on private companies and individuals to help develop games such as Fortnite, a metaverse is
space technology. Challenge accepted by British billionaire a virtual world with avatars that lead
Sir Richard Branson and crew. Nine days later, Jeff Bezos exciting alternate lives on behalf of their
took a 10-minute trip into space on his crewed Blue Origin human counterparts.
spacecraft. New Shepard. Elon Musk’s September SpaceX
mission. Inspiration 4, was the first with an all-civilian crew 1 *.
and a previously used rocket

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most-visited site in 2021, first ^ and seii one-of-a-kind digitai
eciipsing the search engine in ^ creations caiied non-fungibie
February and cieariy dominating
by summer. As of Juiy 2021, users tokens or NFTs. 18-year-oid Victor
had downloaded the TikTok app , Langlois, known as FEWOCiOUS,
over three biiiion times. * soid five iots of his work for

$2.16 miiiion.

WEBB TELESCOPE m i-

Twenty years of deveiopm ent
c u im in a te d in the launch of
the James Webb Space Telescope,
a U.S.-Canadian-European mission
to expiore the universe, search for
iife beyond our soiar system and
understand biack hoies.

V 'li DISNEY TURNS 50 SPIDER-MAN IS BACK

1>I On October 1, 1971, Orlando’s The latest in the eight-movie Spider-
Disney Worid opened for Man franchise. No Way Home broke
i - ilH W ; business. This year, it kicked records and warmed the hearts
off its 50-year anniversary with of Hollywood executives, despite
soid-out hoteis, iong waiting its theater-only release. No Way
iines, and confetti cannons. Home pulled together storylines and
The 22-month ceiebration characters from several previous
w iii inc iud e new rid e s, Spider-M an film s. On opening
a new iuxury hotei, and a weekend, 20 million fans saw No Way
w eara bie “M agicBand +” Home, which earned $253 million in
for interactive experiences. North America.
Disney Worid now empioys
700,000 and sees over 50 miiiion
visitors each year.

♦ •\ 40 YEARS OF MTV

r® i ' The MTV Video Music Awards ceremony was back on a New
York City stage in 2021 after a virtual event in 2020. This event
celebrated the network’s milestone 40th year. Big winners for
the year included Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber and Olivia Rodrigo.

SPOTIFY WRAPPED 2021 EVEN MORE STORIES

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Chris Stapleton swept the 2021 Country Music Awards,
winning six categories, and Luke Combs took home
entertainer of the year. The Brothers Osborne, including lead
T.J. Osborne, who came out as gay during the year, won
best vocal duo. Jimmie Allen won New Artist of the Year,
the second Black performer to do so.

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