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Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian

In
Fleming's James Bond series. Set in London, the US
Iran,
and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by
Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. Fleming wrote the
novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica before his
first book, Casino Royale, was published. The story
centres on Bond's pursuit of Mr Big, who has links Flooding in Golestan Province, Iran
to an American criminal network, the world of widespread flooding since late March
voodoo and SMERSH—an arm of the Russian secret kills at least 62 people (flooding in
service—all of which are threats to the West. Bond Golestan Province pictured).
becomes involved in the US through Mr Big's Zuzana Čaputová is elected president
smuggling of 17th-century gold coins from British of Slovakia, becoming the country's
territories in the Caribbean. The novel deals with first female president and its
themes of the ongoing East–West struggle of the youngest.
Cold War, including British and American relations, A Special Counsel investigation,
Britain's position in the world, race relations and headed by Robert Mueller, concludes
the struggle between good and evil. It was adapted and reports its findings to the United
in 1973 as the eighth film in the Eon Productions States Attorney General.
Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as
At least 160 people are killed in
Bond. (Full article...)
attacks against Fulani herdsmen in
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Jørgen Jensen (soldier)
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Mallet ∙ Geoff Harvey ∙ Agnès Varda ∙
... that attendees at U.S.
Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading ∙
President Donald Trump's 2019
Ed Westcott
State of the Union Address
sang "Happy Birthday" to
On this day
Judah Samet (pictured), a
Holocaust survivor who
April 5: Hansik in North and South Korea
narrowly escaped the 2018
Pittsburgh synagogue
Judah Samet
1614 – Native
shooting?
American
... that William Kempster's 8.44-metre-long Pocahontas
(27.7 ft) mural British Air Transport – The (pictured) married
Pioneering Days depicts people and aircraft English colonist
from British aviation between 1919 and 1934? John Rolfe in
Virginia.

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... that Cole Porter's nickname for his romantic 1710 – The Statute Pocahontas
partner Nelson Barclift was "cute little nose"? of Anne, the first
... that Cape Fugui, the northernmost point on fully fledged law regulating copyright,
Taiwan, includes a beach with ventifacts? received royal assent and went into
effect five days later in Great Britain.
... that both Tom Ballard and his mother Alison
Hargreaves died climbing in the Himalayas, more 1986 – The Libyan secret service
than 23 years apart? bombed a discotheque in West Berlin,
killing 3 people and injuring 229
... that Hubbard's angel insects groom
others.
themselves and each other, perhaps in order to
avoid the fungal diseases that kill many 2000 – Before a semi-final of the
zorapterans? 2000 UEFA Cup in Istanbul, violence
broke out that resulted in two Leeds
... that Dai Fudong designed Mao Zedong's villa
United fans being stabbed to death.
and asked Ronald Reagan to have his father's
Legion of Merit medal reissued? 2009 – The North Korean satellite
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from
... that Marjorie Paxson was twice demoted and
the Tonghae Satellite Launching
replaced by a male editor when two different
Ground and passed over Japan,
newspapers replaced their women‛s sections with
sparking concerns it may have been a
features sections?
trial run of technology that could be
... that La Région Centrale was filmed by a
used to launch intercontinental
robot?
ballistic missiles.
Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (b. 1769) ∙
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
(b. 1863) ∙ María Blanchard (d. 1932)

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Twelve of the 904 Nobel  Prize  recipients  are  Indians (five Indian citizens and
seven of Indian origin or residency). Rabindranath Tagore (pictured) was the first
Indian citizen to be awarded and Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of
recipients. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those
who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry,
Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, instituted by Alfred
Nobel's last will, which specified that a part of his fortune be used to create the prizes.
Each laureate (recipient) receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which
is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation. On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Rabindranath Tagore
Nobel Committee confirmed that Mahatma Gandhi was nominated unsuccessfully for
the Peace Prize five times (from 1937 to 1939, in 1947 and a few days before he was assassinated in January
1948). In 2006, Geir Lundestad, the Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee, cited it as "the greatest
omission in our 106-year history". (Full list...)

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Elk Bath is a wildlife photograph by John

McColgan, a fire behavior expert working
for the Alaska Fire Service division of
the US Bureau of Land Management. It
was taken on August 6, 2000, on the East
Fork of the Bitterroot River on the Sula
complex in the state of Montana. The
picture shows two elk seeking protection
from a raging wildfire by standing in the
river. It was one of the Time magazine
Photos of the Year 2000. McColgan took
the picture with a Kodak DC280 digital
camera.

Photograph: John McColgan

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