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Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards (2005) is a graphic novel written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by the company Big Time Attic. It tells a slightly fictionalized account of the Bone Wars, a period of intense rivalry over the excavation of dinosaur fossils in the western United States. The novel is the first semi-fictional work written by Ottaviani; previously, he had taken no creative license with the characters he depicted, portraying them strictly according to historical sources. Bone Sharps follows two scientists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope (pictured), as they pursue their hotheaded and sometimes illegal acquisitions of fossils. Along the way, they encounter P. T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Alexander Graham Bell, Ulysses S. Grant, and other figures of the Gilded Age. Upon release, the novel was praised by critics for its historical content, although some reviewers were disappointed by the fictional elements. (Full article...)

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Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in 2018

... that the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (pictured) in Munich, a royal theatre for operettas in the 19th century, presented the German premiere of Harold Rome's musical Fanny in 1955?
... that in 1958, Preben von Magnus was the first to describe monkeypox in monkeys?
... that the Wisconsin School is a school of thought that uses economic interpretations to explain much of American diplomatic history?
... that footballer Óscar Sonejee scored the goal that won the Andorra national football team their first-ever point in an international fixture?
... that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice?
... that on her hundredth birthday, British soprano Carrie Tubb was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music?
... that the Brooklyn Naval Hospital treated almost a quarter of Union casualties during the American Civil War?
... that women brewsters were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry?

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Statue of Unity

Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, is acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, sparking widespread protests by Islamists.
India unveils the Statue of Unity (pictured), the tallest statue in the world at 182 m (597 ft), depicting its first deputy prime minister, Vallabhbhai Patel.
Typhoon Yutu, also known as Typhoon Rosita, makes a second landfall in the Philippines, killing 6 people and leaving at least 23 others missing.
Lion Air Flight 610 crashes off the coast of Java, Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board.

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November 3: Culture Day in Japan

Godzilla film poster

1793 – French playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined for her revolutionary ideas.
1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1948 – The Chicago Daily Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman officially upset the heavily favored Governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the presidential election.
1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released (poster pictured) nationwide in Japan.
1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Balıkesir Province, Turkey, sparking a scandal which exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.

Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (b. 1777) · Olav Aukrust (d. 1929) · Dawn Marie Psaltis (b. 1970)

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Barbara Jordan (1936–1996) was an American lawyer, educator and politician who was a leader of the civil rights movement. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. In 1974 she made an influential televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee supporting the impeachment process against Richard Nixon. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton in 1994.

Photograph: Uncredited (U.S. Congress). Restoration: Adam Cuerden.

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