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Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English author who wrote 34 novels, 7 volumes of short stories and a daily journal of more than a million words. He also wrote or co-wrote 13 plays, wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the UK's Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. He was the most financially successful British author of his day. Because his books appealed to a wide public rather than to literary cliques and élites, and for his adherence to realism, Virginia Woolf and other writers and supporters of the modernist school belittled him, and his fiction became neglected after his death. Studies of his writing since the 1970s have led to a re-evaluation of Bennett's work, and his finest novels, including Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923), are now widely recognised as major works. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that Clark House (pictured) hosted Cold War meetings?
- ... that a 2022 book lamented that American painter Edna Hibel did not have a Wikipedia article?
- ... that there are more than 9,000 swamps in Belarus?
- ... that before becoming a voice actor, Kenichirou Matsuda attended law school trying to become a civil servant?
- ... that the first Hindu temple in Wisconsin was built "in the middle of nowhere"?
- ... that Alan Choe was tasked with developing Queenstown, Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s?
- ... that Google's Client Hints proposal was initially classified as harmful by Mozilla?
- ... that Dick Walker's discovery of Saturn's moon Epimetheus was only realized twelve years later?
- ... that Richard Linklater's original concept for Dazed and Confused took place entirely within a car as its characters listened to ZZ Top?
In the news (For today)
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- In Bolivia, troops led by Juan José Zúñiga storm the presidential palace in an attempted coup (pictured).
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is released from prison as part of a U.S. plea bargain.
- Protesters attack the Parliament Buildings in Nairobi, Kenya, leaving 19 people dead and at least 160 others injured.
- A fire at a lithium battery factory in the South Korean city of Hwaseong leaves at least 23 people dead, many of them Chinese migrant workers.
Two days ago
- 1864 – American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union Army from advancing on Atlanta.
- 1899 – A. E. J. Collins (pictured) scored 628 runs not out, the highest recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016.
- 1954 – Jacobo Árbenz resigned as President of Guatemala following a CIA-led coup against his administration.
- 1957 – Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S.
- 2017 – Websites of Ukrainian organizations were swamped by a massive cyberattack, blamed on Russian military hackers, using the malware Petya.
- Thomas Erpingham (d. 1428)
- George Vincent (bap 1796)
- Rosalie Allen (b. 1924)
- Violet Milstead (d. 2014)
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Sabella spallanzanii is a species of marine polychaete worms in the family Sabellidae. It is native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and North Sea, but has spread to various other parts of the world and is included on the Global Invasive Species Database. The species grows to a total length of 9 to 40 centimetres (4 to 16 inches) and is usually larger in deep water. It features stiff, sandy tubes formed from hardened mucus secreted by the worm that protrude from the sand, and a two-layered crown of feeding tentacles that can be retracted into the tube. This S. spallanzanii worm was photographed in Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Photograph credit: Diego Delso
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