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Harper Lee in 2007

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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Downtown Serekunda

... that because the capital of the Gambia is on a small island, its population has overflowed into Serekunda (pictured) in the nearby municipality of Kanifing?
... that Nancy S. Steinhardt completed her doctorate on medieval Chinese architecture before she was able to see any in person?
... that much of Archcliffe Fort was demolished in the 1920s to allow for expansion of a railway?
... that Alfred Sully, who led US forces during the Sioux Wars, was married to a Yankton Sioux woman?
... that The Right and the Wrong was the first feature film produced natively in Trinidad and Tobago?
... that a 23-day CBC strike thrust Don Goodwin into the Canadian national spotlight and into "folk-hero status"?
... that the lyric video for an Olivia Rodrigo song included a teaser that she would tour in support of her album Guts?
... that the Cosmere Roleplaying Game surpassed Frosthaven to become the most-funded tabletop game on Kickstarter in August 2024?
... that "Honest Ike" stole more than $200,000 from the Alabama treasury?

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John Hopfield (left) and Geoffrey Hinton

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton (both pictured) 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.
More than twenty people die in flooding and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A school bus crash and fire in Pathum Thani, Thailand, kills twenty-two school children and three teachers.
Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, Israel invades Lebanon, and Iran launches missiles against Israel.

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October 10

Vidyasagar Setu

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.
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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Europa Clipper is a space probe developed by NASA and scheduled for launch on 10 October 2024. The largest spacecraft NASA has built for a planetary mission, Europa Clipper is designed to study Jupiter's moon Europa through a series of flybys while in orbit around Jupiter, with the goals of exploring Europa, investigating its habitability, and aiding in the selection of a landing site for the future Europa Lander. It is expected to reach its destination in 2030. This photograph shows a commemorative plate, 7 by 11 inches (18 by 28 centimeters) in size and made of tantalum, that is attached to the outside of the space probe to seal an entrance to a vault designed to protect the electronics from Jupiter's radiation. The outer face of the plate, pictured here, is etched with waveforms of audio recordings of the word water translated into 103 languages, radiating outwards from the American Sign Language symbol for the same word. The inner face of the plate features a work by the American poet Ada Limón.

Photograph credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech; photographed by Ryan Lannom

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