"Over There" is the two-part second-season finale of the Fox science
fiction drama series Fringe. Both parts were written by Academy Award-
winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, together with showrunners Jeff
Pinkner and J. H. Wyman. Goldsman also served as director. Fringe's
premise is based on the idea of two parallel universes, our own and the
Other Side, which began to clash in 1985, after Dr. Walter Bishop (John
Noble) stole the parallel universe version of his son, Peter, following
his own son's death. The finale's narrative recounts what happens when
Peter (Joshua Jackson) is taken back to the Other Side by his real
father, dubbed "Walternate" (Noble). FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv,
pictured) and Walter lead a team of former Cortexiphan test subjects to
retrieve him, after discovering that Peter is an unwitting part of
Walternate's plans to bring about the destruction of our universe using
an ancient doomsday device. Part one aired on May 13, 2010, to an
estimated 5.99 million viewers, while part two broadcast a week later
to 5.68 million. Both episodes received overwhelmingly positive
reviews, with critics lauding the subtle differences between each
universe. The finale was selected for multiple 2010 "best of
television" lists.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_There_(Fringe)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1535:
Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes,
present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the
Spanish Crown.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lima>
1778:
English explorer James Cook became the first known European to
reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands>
1866:
Wesley College, the largest school in Australia by enrolment,
was established in Melbourne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_College_(Victoria)>
1871:
A number of independent German states unified into the German
Empire, with Prussian King Wilhelm I being proclaimed as its first
Emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany>
1943:
World War II: As part of Operation Iskra, the Soviet Red Army
broke the Siege of Leningrad, opening a narrow land corridor to the
city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iskra>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scuttle:
(transitive) To deliberately sink a ship or boat by order of the
vessel's commander or owner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scuttle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile,
but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four
hundred imbeciles.
--Robert Anton Wilson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson>