Lost: Missing Pieces are thirteen video clips ranging in length from one to four minutes that aired during the hiatus between the third and fourth seasons of the television show Lost, from which the series is spun off. They generally became available to Verizon Wireless users on Mondays from November 2007 to January 2008 and were uploaded onto the American Broadcasting Company's website a week later for free streaming. These "mobisodes" were shot in Honolulu, Hawaii and produced by the same crew with the same cast as the television series; thus, all content is considered to be canonical. Lost's writer-producers originally proposed the mobisodes as a self-contained story that would focus on two previously unseen characters of the Lost fictional universe. These characters would be played by actors who were not part of the Screen Actors Guild; however the entertainment guild refused to support such a project. After months of unsuccessful negotiating, the series was seemingly shelved by ABC. In June 2007, it was announced that the mobisodes, which would be renamed Lost: Missing Pieces, would star the regular characters of Lost in thirteen short video clips unrelated to each other. Twelve scenes were newly shot; one was a deleted scene from the television series. Lost: Missing Pieces received minimal media attention and critical reviews were mixed. The series was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008.
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565:
Justinian the Great deposed Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople, after he refused the Byzantine Emperor's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of Monophysites. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome)
1863:
The January Uprising, the longest Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian uprising against the Russian Empire, broke out, originally as a spontaneous protest by young Poles against conscription into the Russian Army. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Uprising)
1879:
Anglo-Zulu War: In the greatest British military defeat at the hands of native forces in history, Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo fought to a pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Isandlwana in Isandlwana, South Africa. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana)
1901:
After holding the title Prince of Wales for six decades, King Edward VII ascended to the British throne, replacing Queen Victoria whose death ended her reign that lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than any other British monarch. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom)
1973:
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first six to seven months of pregnancy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade)
_______________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
genuflect (v) To bend the knee, as in servitude or worship; grovel. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genuflect)
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So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. --George Gordon, Lord Byron (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Byron)