"The Body" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the
supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written
and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it originally aired on The
WB Television Network in the United States on February 27, 2001. In the
series, Buffy Summers is a teenager chosen by mystical forces and
endowed with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other
evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale. In "The Body", Buffy discovers
the body of her mother, who has died of a brain aneurysm. In the series
Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in gruesome and
fantastic ways, but in this episode they are bewildered by the natural
death of Buffy's mother and struggle to comprehend what the loss means
to them. Buffy must begin to face her life and her duties as the Slayer
without parental support and comfort. "The Body" is regarded by many
critics as one of the best episodes of the series.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory at the Battle of
Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the arrests of 850 Loyalists over the
following days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moore%27s_Creek_Bridge>
1933:
The Reichstag building, the seat of the German parliament in
Berlin, was set on fire in a pivotal event in the establishment of the
Nazi regime.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire>
1996:
The multimedia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release
of the video games Pocket Monsters: Red and Green.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pronoia:
1. (philosophy, theology) Divine providence, foreknowledge, foresight.
2. (historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of
temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land,
fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of
military service. […]
3. (psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people
conspire to do one good.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronoia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Time is the only critic without ambition.
--John Steinbeck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck>