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"X-Cops" is the twelfth episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Directed by Michael Watkins and written by Vince Gilligan, the installment originally aired on the Fox network in February 2000. In this episode, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), special agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are interviewed for the Fox network reality television program Cops during an X-Files investigation. Mulder, hunting what he believes to be a werewolf, discovers that the monster terrorizing people craves the fear it provokes. While Mulder embraces the publicity of Cops, Scully is uncomfortable about appearing on national television. "X-Cops" is one of only two X-Files episodes that was shot in real time. The episode has been thematically analyzed for its use of postmodernism and its presentation as reality television. It has been named among the best episodes of The X-Files by several reviewers, for its humor and format. (Full article...)

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... that Fatou Kiné Camara (pictured) campaigns for wider access to abortions in Senegal, which has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Africa?
... that the fossil bumble bee Bombus trophonius was named after the Greek hero Trophonius?
... that Hawaiian Independence Day, on November 28, commemorates the Anglo-Franco Proclamation recognizing the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that Mustafa Tuna, the newly-elected mayor of Ankara, was previously an academic in environmental technology?
... that Myanmar produces some of the world's finest rubies?
... that there were rumors that the comic book Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand would end the Ultimate Marvel imprint?
... that artefacts discovered at the Donaldson archaeological site in Ontario include a child's necklace made with bear teeth?
... that "Hawaii's Songbird" Lena Machado had a "ha'i" in her voice?

In the news

Mount Agung erupting

Indonesian officials order the evacuation of 100,000 people in Bali due to the eruption of Mount Agung (pictured).
In Canadian football, the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Calgary Stampeders to win the Grey Cup.
At least 305 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a mosque in Bir al-Abed, Egypt.
Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeds Robert Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe following a military coup.

On this day...

November 28: Declaration of Independence of Albania (1912)

Coat of arms of the Royal Society

1470 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Annam (Vietnam) launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.
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 (coat of arms pictured).
1895 – The first automobile race in the United States, the Chicago Times-Herald race, was held in Chicago.
1971 – Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal was assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo.
1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 on board.

William Blake (b. 1757) · Adina Emilia De Zavala (b. 1861) · Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (d. 1947)

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The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania is an oil painting on canvas by the Scottish artist Joseph Noel Paton. Painted in 1849, it depicts the scene from William Shakespeare's comedy play A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which the fairy queen Titania and fairy king Oberon quarrel. When exhibited in Edinburgh in 1850, it was declared the "painting of the season". The painting was acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland in 1897, having initially been bought by the Royal Association for Promoting the Fine Arts.

Painting: Joseph Noel Paton

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