The Russell family is a fictional family on the American soap opera
Passions, which aired on NBC (1999–2007) and on DirecTV (2007–2008).
Created by the soap's founder and head writer James E. Reilly, the
family originally consisted of the married couple Eve and T. C. Russell
and their children, Whitney and Simone. Later characters included Eve's
vengeful adoptive sister Liz Sanbourne, Whitney's husband Chad Harris-
Crane, Eve's aunt Irma Johnson, and Eve's child with Julian Crane,
Vincent Clarkson, whose alter ego Valerie was played by Daphnée Duplaix
(pictured). The cast was frequently nominated for NAACP Image Awards and
featured prominently in a series of public service announcements for
Black History Month in 2003. The show drew mixed critical attention for
storylines involving Chad's affair with the intersex Vincent, but won
the award for Outstanding Daily Drama at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2006
for its portrayal of Simone's sexuality. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Russell family (Passions).).
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Russell_family_%28Passions%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped
the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (mushroom cloud
pictured), killing about 70,000 people instantly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy>
1996:
A team of researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001,
discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of
life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001>
2010:
Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh
region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ladakh_floods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
planning permission:
(Britain, construction, law) Legal permission granted by a government
authority to construct on one's land, or to change the use of the land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/planning_permission>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and
moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively
consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result —
ruthlessness in political life.
--Richard Hofstadter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter>