November 30 Wikipedia featured article

"The Post-Modern Prometheus" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, originally airing on the Fox network on November 30, 1997. It was written and directed by series creator Chris Carter. The story follows FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they investigate a creature called "The Great Mutato" that has impregnated a middle-aged woman; it turns out to be the genetic creation of a Frankenstein-like doctor. The creature is first ostracized...

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On this day: November 30

November 30: Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados (1966) King Charles XII of Sweden 3340 BC – The oldest known record of a solar eclipse was carved into a stone in Ireland. 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII (pictured) defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of Narva. 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of...

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November 29 Wikipedia featured article

Illustration of the game Gospel Dice, of which Israel is credited as a coinventor Israel the Grammarian (c. 895 – c. 965) was one of the leading European scholars of the mid-tenth century. Most likely a Breton, he wrote theological and grammatical tracts, and commentaries on the works of other philosophers and theologians. When Alfred the Great became King of Wessex in 871, learning was at a low level in southern England, and there were no Latin...

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On this day: November 29

November 29 Eureka Flag 1729 – Natchez Indians suddenly revolted against French colonists near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi, US, killing over 240 people. 1847 – Oregon missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman along with about a dozen others were killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Native American tribes, sparking the Cayuse War. 1854 – The Eureka Flag (pictured) was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia. 1947...

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On this day: November 28

November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912); Navy Day in Iran (1980); Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2015) John Major 936 – Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang. 1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society. 1905...

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November 28 Wikipedia featured article

Worker with cocoon The banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus) is a species of ant endemic to Australia. A member of the genus Camponotus in the subfamily Formicinae, it was described by German entomologist Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson in 1842. Its common name refers to the ant's preference for sweet food, as well as the distinctive orange-brown band around its gaster. The ant is polymorphic and relatively large, with castes called major workers...

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November 27 Wikipedia featured article

Almirante Latorre in 1921 The Almirante Latorre class consisted of two super-dreadnought battleships designed by the British company Armstrong Whitworth for the Chilean Navy, named for Admirals Juan José Latorre and Thomas Cochrane. Construction began on 27 November 1911, but both were purchased and renamed by the Royal Navy prior to completion for use in the First World War. Almirante Latorre (pictured) was commissioned into British service...

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On this day: November 27

November 27 First Eddystone Lighthouse 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, one of the most severe storms to strike southern Great Britain, destroyed the first Eddystone Lighthouse (pictured) off Plymouth, England. 1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control. 1940 – The Iron Guard killed over 60 political detainees at a penitentiary...

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Le Co Voiturage et Bla Bla Car : Gagner de l’Argent en Conduisant

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November 26 Wikipedia featured article

Children of Mana is a 2006 action role-playing game for the Nintendo DS handheld console. It was developed by Square Enix and Nex Entertainment, and published by Square Enix and Nintendo. It is the sixth game of the Mana series and the first entry in the World of Mana subseries. Set in a high fantasy universe, Children of Mana follows one of four young heroes as they combat an invasion of monsters and learn about the cataclysmic event that killed their families. Both the main plot and side-quests require the player to fight through dungeons and...

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On this day: November 26

November 26: Feast day of Sylvester Gozzolini and John Berchmans (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in India (1949); Thanksgiving in the United States (2015) Film poster for Casablanca 1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened. 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon...

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November 25 Wikipedia featured article

Ron Hamence played for the Australian cricket team in 1948, dubbed the "Invincibles", when they went undefeated for an unprecedented 34 matches on a tour of England. He was not instrumental in the team's success, and his selection was a subject of controversy because many batsmen who had scored more runs in the preceding Australian season had been overlooked. Hamence played in only non-Test tour matches to allow the leading batsmen to conserve energy for the Tests, as play was scheduled for six days a week. Because the team captain Donald Bradman...

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On this day: November 25

November 25: Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2015); Teachers' Day in Indonesia Albert Einstein 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada. 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South. 1915 – Albert...

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November 24 Wikipedia featured article

Sly and Robbie Rhythm Killers is the second studio album by Jamaican musical duo Sly and Robbie (pictured), released in May 1987 on Island Records. First known as a reggae band, the duo experimented in the 1980s with electronic sounds and contemporary recording technology, while branching out into international, cross-genre music. A funk and dance album, Rhythm Killers has a dense sound that incorporates reggae, hip hop, hard rock, worldbeat,...

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On this day: November 24

November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism) Ruby about to shoot Oswald 1227 – High Duke of Poland Leszek the White was assassinated during a diet of the Piast dukes. 1877 – Anna Sewell's influential animal welfare novel Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published. 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally...

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On this day: November 23

November 23: National Sovereignty Day in Argentina; St George's Day in Georgia; Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 1733 – African slaves from Akwamu in the Danish West Indies revolted against their owners, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas. 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody. 1963...

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November 23 Wikipedia featured article

Nadine Gordimer Burger's Daughter is a political and historical novel by the South African Nobel recipient Nadine Gordimer (pictured), first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Banned in South Africa for three months by the Publications Control Board, the book follows a group of white anti-apartheid activists who seek to overthrow the South African government. Rosa, the title character, comes to terms with her father's legacy...

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On this day: November 22

November 22: Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic Church, 2015); Alphabet Day in Albania (1908); Independence Day in Lebanon (1943) Angela Merkel 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines. 1831 – After a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silkworkers seized Lyon, France, beginning the First Canut Revolt. 1975 – Two days after the death...

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November 22 Wikipedia featured article

Depiction of King Harold Very little is known for certain of the ancestry of the Godwins, the family of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Harold II. When King Edward the Confessor died in January 1066 the legitimate heir was his great-nephew, Edgar Ætheling, but he was young and lacked powerful supporters. Harold was the head of the most powerful family in England and Edward's brother-in-law, and he became king. In September 1066 Harold...

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On this day: November 21

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November 21 Wikipedia featured article

Disaster Peak, in the range's Nevada portion The Trout Creek Mountains are a Great Basin range in Oregon and Nevada in the United States. Oriented generally north–south, the mountains consist mostly of fault blocks of basalt, while the southern end has granitic outcrops. Overall, the faulted terrain is dominated by rolling hills cut by canyons. Most of the range is federal land, and there is little human development, apart from cattle ranching....

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On this day: November 20

November 20: Universal Children's Day Nuremberg trial defendants 284 – Diocletian became Roman emperor, eventually establishing reforms that ended the Crisis of the Third Century. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Lee marked the invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army. 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine Confederation were...

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November 20 Wikipedia featured article

State Route 75 (SR 75) is a 13-mile (21 km) expressway in San Diego County, California. It is a loop route of Interstate 5 that begins near Imperial Beach, heading west on Palm Avenue. The route continues north along the Silver Strand, a thin strip of land bordering San Diego Bay, through Silver Strand State Beach. SR 75 passes through the city of Coronado as Orange Avenue (pictured) and continues onto the San Diego–Coronado Bay Bridge...

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November 19 Wikipedia featured article

Luis Miguel Romance is the eighth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel (pictured), released by WEA Latina in 1991. After songwriter Juan Carlos Calderón pulled out of a collaboration on pop songs and ballads, Miguel recorded an album of classic boleros instead, at the suggestion of his manager. Singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero co-produced the album with Miguel, with arrangements by Bebu Silvetti. Miguel promoted the record with a tour...

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On this day: November 19

November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist. 1816 – The University of Warsaw, currently the largest university in Poland, was established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without a university. 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation...

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