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Chris Carter

"Triangle" is the third episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Written and directed by series creator Chris Carter (pictured), it premiered on the Fox network on November 22, 1998, with 18.20 million viewers. In this episode, FBI special agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), who works on cases linked to the paranormal along with Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), boards a passenger liner in the Bermuda Triangle. Transported back in time to the outbreak of World War II, he encounters German soldiers searching for a superweapon called Thor's Hammer. Main and recurring cast members, including Anderson, William B. Davis, Chris Owens, James Pickens Jr. and Mitch Pileggi, play additional characters aboard the ship, distinct from their regular characters. Inspired by the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film Rope, many scenes were edited to appear as single takes. The episode received generally positive reviews. (Full article...)

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... that the Hyperion proto-supercluster was discovered using astroinformatics?
... that Arvo Pärt composed Cecilia, vergine romana on an Italian text about Saint Cecilia for choir and orchestra, on a commission for the Great Jubilee in Rome?
... that children have mistaken the poisonous fruits of Adenia hondala for those of the passion flower?
... that Iris Kadrić played international football for Sweden under-17s, before switching to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
... that dozens of Nazi concentration camps were staffed by guards from the Luftwaffe?
... that Haifan Lin's discovery of piRNAs was named by Science as one of the top breakthroughs of 2006?
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Joey Logano

In U.S. stock car racing, Joey Logano (pictured) wins the NASCAR Cup Series.
The wreck of Argentinian submarine San Juan, which disappeared in November 2017, is found in the South Atlantic.
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sells for more than US$90 million, the highest price for a work by a living artist at auction.
The General Conference on Weights and Measures confirms new definitions for the units kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole.

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November 22: Alphabet Day in Albania (1908)

Blackbeard

498 – Following the death of Anastasius II, both Symmachus and Laurentius were elected pope, causing a schism that lasted until 506.
1718 – The pirate Blackbeard (pictured) was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of North Carolina, ending his reign of terror in the Caribbean.
1873 – The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
1968 – The Beatles released their eponymous double album, popularly known as "The White Album".
1988 – The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

Johann Christian Reil (d. 1813) · Katherine Plunket (b. 1820) · Scarlett Johansson (b. 1984)

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Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. The group, visible in the constellation Pegasus, was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory. The brightest member of the visual grouping is the spiral galaxy NGC 7320 that is shown to have extensive H II regions, identified as red blobs, where active star formation is occurring. Stephan's Quintet is the most studied of all the compact galaxy groups.

Photograph: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team.

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