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Eve, the show's eponymous star

Eve is an American television sitcom, created by Meg DeLoatch, that originally aired on United Paramount Network from September 15, 2003, to May 11, 2006. It features an ensemble cast with Eve (pictured), Jason George, Ali Landry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Brian Hooks, and Sean Maguire as six friends attempting to navigate relationships with the opposite sex. Produced by The Greenblatt-Janollari Studio, Mega Diva Inc., and Warner Bros. Television, the series was developed as a vehicle for Eve under the working title The Opposite Sex, and was targeted to younger audiences. After being picked up, the show was renamed Eve to attract the rapper's fans. The series was set in Miami, but filmed at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Eve suffered from low viewership in spite of high ratings among young Hispanic women. The cancellations of this series and other black sitcoms were criticized by media outlets for reducing representation of African American characters and the number of roles for African American actors on television. Critical response to Eve was mixed, but the show and Eve received several award nominations. (Full article...)

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Lyndsey Scott

... that between modelling for Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, and Prada, Lyndsey Scott (pictured) develops mobile apps for iOS?
... that Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park was based on her brother's residence Godmersham Park, Kent, which she frequently visited?
... that Caroline Stein appeared as Mozart's Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera, and sang his Mass in C minor and Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder at The Proms?
... that Ginza Six, a new shopping complex in Tokyo, contains artwork by Yayoi Kusama?
... that starting at age nine, Carlos Cuevas acted for six years in the Catalan television series Ventdelplà?
... that a lyric video for the song "Walk on Water" by Thirty Seconds to Mars features user-submitted footage depicting Independence Day in the United States?
... that Ida Hall Roby was the first woman to graduate from the Illinois College of Pharmacy at Northwestern University?
... that at Modena Park 2017, rock singer Vasco Rossi broke the world record for the largest ticketed concert?

In the news

Halimah Yacob

Halimah Yacob (pictured) wins the Singaporean presidential election by default after being declared the only eligible candidate.
The IOC awards the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to Paris and Los Angeles, respectively.
Hurricane Irma kills more than 50 people across the Caribbean islands and the United States.
A magnitude 8.1 earthquake strikes Guatemala and Mexico, killing more than 90 people.
Monsoon flooding kills nearly 1,300 people and affects 45 million others in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

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September 15: Independence Day in Costa Rica (1821); Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom; Free Money Day

Inaugural journey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

1530 – According to the Dominican Order, three mysterious women brought the painting Saint Dominic in Soriano to a friary in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy.
1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.
1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened (train pictured) as the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities.
1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of citizenship, and adopted a new national flag emblazoned with a swastika.
1963 – A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others.

Jean Sylvain Bailly (b. 1736) · Isambard Kingdom Brunel (d. 1859) · Ann Bannon (b. 1932)

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Valve Corporation's logo

The first video game by Valve Corporation, an American developer and publisher, was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. It received universal acclaim and sold over 9 million units in retail. Alongside Half-Life's launch, Valve released development tools to enable the player community to create content and mods. The company then proceeded to hire the creators of popular mods, such as Counter-Strike, which became the most popular multiplayer first-person shooter for the next decade. Valve continued their trend of developing predominantly first-person video games in the 2000s with a number of critically successful releases. By the end of 2008, combined retail sales of the Half-Life series, Counter-Strike series and The Orange Box had surpassed 32 million units. The company continued to release multiplayer games with the launches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, both of which have large eSports communities fostered by Valve. During the 2010s, Valve has focused on supporting their established multiplayer titles with regular content updates (Full list...)

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A bird's eye view of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a 1902 lithograph by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler. At this point in its history, Pittsburgh was an industrial and commercial powerhouse, with extensive railroad connections to the rest of the United States. Together with the rest of Allegheny County, it produced massive amounts of steel and steel products: by 1911 they reached 24% of the national output of pig iron, 34% of Bessemer steel, 44% of open hearth steel, 53% of crucible steel, 24% of steel rail, and 59% of structural shape.

Lithograph: Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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