Nikki Fernandez and Paulo are fictional minor characters on the ABC drama television series Lost, played by American actress Kiele Sanchez and Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro (pictured). The show chronicles the lives of over forty people after their plane crashes on a remote island somewhere in the south Pacific. Before boarding the plane, Paulo is a con artist working with his girlfriend Nikki. He murders a wealthy television executive, stealing the man's bag of diamonds with Nikki. The producers of the show were often asked what the rest of the plane-crash survivors were doing because the show only focuses on approximately fifteen of the survivors, and the characters of Nikki and Paulo were created in response. The couple is introduced early in the third season. Reaction to the characters was generally negative because of their abrupt introduction. Lost's show runner Damon Lindelof even acknowledged that the couple are "universally despised" by fans. As a result of this, the couple was killed off later in the same season. Both Nikki and Paulo are buried alive, with the diamonds, when they are thought to be dead after being paralyzed by venomous spiders.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1802:
German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas
1910:
Near Martigues, France, French aviator Henri Fabre's Fabre Hydravion became the first seaplane to take off from water under its own power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabre_Hydravion
1920:
An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Palm_Sunday_tornado_outbreak
1930:
Turkey changed the name of its largest city Constantinople to Istanbul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Istanbul
1979:
A partial core meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resulted in the release of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive krypton to the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
lacrimae rerum: The “tears of things”; the inherent tragedy of existence. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lacrimae_rerum
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. --Daniel Dennett https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett