"The Unnatural" is the 19th episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, which first aired on April 25, 1999, on the Fox network. The series centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal. This episode was written and directed by Duchovny (pictured), and received positive reviews from critics and a viewership of 16.88 million people on its debut. In the episode, Arthur Dales (M. Emmet Walsh), the brother of a previously recurring retired FBI agent, tells Mulder the story of a black baseball player who played for the Roswell Grays in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 under the pseudonym "Josh Exley" (Jesse L. Martin). Exley is actually an alien who is later tracked down by the Alien Bounty Hunter (Brian Thompson) and executed for betraying his people. The episode was inspired by the 1947 Roswell Incident. Many of the outdoor baseball scenes were filmed at Jay Littleton Ballfield, an all-wood stadium in Ontario, California. The episode has been critically examined for its use of literary motifs, its fairy tale-like structure, and its themes of racism and alienation.
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1570:
Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnans_in_Excelsis
1836:
American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun", later known as a revolver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver
1948:
Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, Czechoslovakian president Edvard Beneš ceded control over the government to the Communist Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
1992:
Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed 613 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojali in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_Massacre
2011:
The Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting Irish government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_election,_2011
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From the Hindu perspective, each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality. --George Harrison https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Harrison