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Starship Troopers is a 1959 military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein (pictured). The first-person narrative follows Juan "Johnny" Rico through his military service in the Mobile Infantry, most of which takes place during an interstellar war between humans and an alien species known as "Arachnids" or "Bugs". Interspersed with the primary plot are classroom scenes in which Rico and others discuss philosophical and moral issues, including aspects of suffrage (restricted in Rico's society), civic virtue, juvenile delinquency, and war; these discussions have been described as expounding Heinlein's own political views. A coming-of-age novel, Starship Troopers also critiques the US society of the 1950s, arguing that a lack of discipline had led to a moral decline. Starship Troopers brought to an end Heinlein's juvenile novel series. It became one of his best-selling books, and won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The story has been adapted several times, including in a 1997 film version. (Full article...)
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- ... that the support of conservationist Kae Miller (pictured) for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington, New Zealand?
- ... that the United Ukrainian Ballet Company, consisting of exiled dancers based in The Hague, has toured the UK, Singapore, Australia and the US?
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- ... that Iván Arias's eccentric but successful 2021 La Paz mayoral campaign involved an action figure, comics, and chocolate kisses named and styled in his likeness?
- ... that the rector of the University of Indonesia, Muhammad Kamil Tadjudin, introduced a non-thesis degree policy that allowed students to graduate without publishing a thesis?
- ... that The New Yorker's purchase of stock in Teleram Communications, a maker of portable computers, was the magazine's first investment in an outside company?
- ... that the novel Alan and Naomi has been called "one of the starkest representations of trauma and traumatic loss"?
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- Silicon Valley Bank collapses following a bank run and is taken into receivership by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
- In the Estonian parliamentary election, the Reform Party, led by Kaja Kallas (pictured), wins the most seats in the Riigikogu.
- Cyclone Freddy leaves at least 29 people dead in Madagascar, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
- Bola Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, is elected President of Nigeria.
- A train crash in Thessaly, Greece, kills at least 57 people.
On this day
- 1669 – Mount Etna in Sicily began erupting, eventually producing the largest lava flow in the volcano's history, and damaging Catania and other towns.
- 1843 – During a period of activity known as the Great Eruption, Eta Carinae (pictured) briefly became the second-brightest star in the night sky.
- 1984 – The anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki was released.
- 2011 – A massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2012 – U.S. Army soldier Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
- Benjamin Tupper (b. 1738)
- Jane Meade Welch (b. 1854)
- Helen Rollason (b. 1956)
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A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, lakes and rivers. This picture shows a group of fishing boats lashed together in a tidal creek near the village of Anjarle in Maharashtra, India. Photograph credit: Sandip Dey
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