[Editor's note: This article was updated late Wednesday to note Argentina's 1-0 win over Uruguay in the World Cup qualifier in Montevideo.] BOSTON — If Americans recall the 1950 World Cup at all, it is because of the greatest upset in American soccer history, glorified in the 2005 film “The Game of Their Lives”: United States 1, England 0. But in the wider soccer universe, the ’50 World Cup in Brazil was far more memorable for the dramatic upset in the finals.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — In Jorge Luis Borges' “The Aleph” — arguably the Argentine writer's most celebrated work of fiction — the author imagines a Buenos Aires basement, home to a magical globe in which all things in the universe are seen at once. The Aleph is a microcosm in which all macrocosms are contained, a portal to infinite knowledge and vision.