Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is a 2011 American documentary film about
modern human trafficking, specifically sexual slavery. Presented from a
Christian worldview, Nefarious covers human trafficking in the United
States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia, alternating
interviews with re-enactments. Nefarious was written, directed, produced
and narrated by Benjamin Nolot, founder and president of Exodus Cry, the
film's distributor. Nolot travelled to 19 countries to collect the
film's content. Interviewees in the film include Agape International
Missions founder Don Brewster, former prostitute Annie Lobert, and
Swedish Detective Superintendent Kajsa Wahlberg. Laila Mickelwait
(pictured), Exodus Cry's Director of Awareness and Prevention, screened
the film in several countries in an attempt to persuade governments to
make laws similar to Sweden's Sex Purchase Act, which criminalizes the
purchasing rather than the selling of sex. Nefarious has won a variety
of film awards, including the Honolulu Film Award for Best Screenplay,
the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Award, and
the Indie Fest Feature Documentary Award of Excellence.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefarious:_Merchant_of_Souls>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
497 BC:
The temple to the Roman god Saturn was dedicated in the Roman
Forum; its anniversary was celebrated as Saturnalia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia>
1583:
Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated the troops
under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Godesberg>
1926:
A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the
democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Lithuanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1960:
A US Air Force Convair C-131 Samaritan crashed shortly after
take-off into downtown Munich due to fuel contamination, killing all 20
people on board as well as 32 more on the ground.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Munich_Convair_340_crash>
1983:
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb just
outside Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people and
injuring about 90 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
neotenous:
1. Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
2. (informal) Babyfaced.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neotenous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of
facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been
said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of
darkness by which it is surrounded. 
--Humphry Davy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Humphry_Davy>