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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee (pictured) published in 1960 and considered a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers, and a model of integrity for lawyers. As a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence, but scholars have also noted that Lee addresses the issues of class tensions, courage and compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book, which won a Pulitzer Prize, is widely taught in schools in English-speaking countries with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been the target of various campaigns to have it removed from public classrooms. (Full article...)
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- ... that researchers speculate that cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered?
- ... that the noken system used for voting in parts of Indonesia can produce turnouts of 100%?
- ... that for 19 years Tonya Burns had the only retired jersey number in Iowa State women's basketball history?
- ... that Northamptonshire has had ninety-two railway stations, but now has only six?
- ... that Joe Wirkkunen coached the Finland men's national ice hockey team after receiving a recommendation from Canada?
- ... that the music video for "...Well, Better Than the Alternative" uses software to render handmade paintings over live-action footage of musician Will Wood?
- ... that British conscientious objector Henry Firth died in 1918 while being held at a work camp in Dartmoor?
- ... that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios started 20 years ago?
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- Hurricane Milton (pictured), one of the fastest-intensifying and most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, makes landfall in the U.S. state of Florida.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction and David Baker for his work on computational protein design.
- John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks.
- A gang attack on the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé leaves seventy people dead and fifty others injured.
On this day
- 1846 – English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
- 1933 – In the first proven act of sabotage in the history of commercial aviation, a Boeing 247 operated by United Airlines exploded in mid-air near Chesterton, Indiana, killing all seven people aboard.
- 1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground, went into effect.
- 1973 – U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
- 1992 – After 20 years of construction, Vidyasagar Setu (pictured), the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, opened, joining Kolkata and Howrah.
- Mary of Waltham (b. 1344)
- Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro (b. 1884)
- Kim Ki-young (b. 1919)
- Sarah Lancashire (b. 1964)
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Silver certificates are a type of representative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part of its circulation of paper currency. They were produced in response to silver agitation by citizens who were angered by the Coinage Act of 1873, which had effectively placed the United States on a gold standard. Since 1968 they have been redeemable only in Federal Reserve Notes and are thus obsolete, but they remain legal tender at their face value and hence are still an accepted form of currency. These are three banknotes from the 1934 series of silver certificates, designed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and comprising the denominations $1, $5 and $10. Each banknote bears a portrait of a different individual, identified above. Banknote design credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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