"A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding" is the seventh episode of the second
season of the American television comedy-drama Ugly Betty and the
series's 30th episode overall. It was written by Silvio Horta and Marco
Pennette, and directed by James Hayman. The episode was originally
broadcast on ABC in the United States on November 8, 2007. Ugly Betty
centers on Betty Suarez's job at the fashion magazine MODE, and in this
episode MODE's creative director Wilhelmina Slater attempts to marry the
magazine's publisher Bradford Meade. Victoria Beckham (pictured) guest-
stars as herself in the episode, appearing as Wilhelmina's maid of honor
who steals attention from the wedding. Vanessa Williams's ex-husband
Rick Fox appears as Wilhelmina's bodyguard and lover. Vera Wang makes a
cameo appearance, and designed Wilhelmina's wedding dress and Beckham's
bridesmaid dress. The episode received nominations for a Primetime Emmy
Award and an NAACP Image Award.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nice_Day_for_a_Posh_Wedding>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1750:
Tarabai, the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had
Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson,
arrested as an impostor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarabai>
1963:
During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot
and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald (shooting pictured), who
assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy
theories.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald>
2015:
A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M after
the latter had allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored
warnings to change course.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
slimeball:
1. (biology) A round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-
like substance such as mucus.
2. (helminthology, specifically) A mucus-coated lump containing the
cercariae (“parasitic larvae”) of a liver fluke (of the phylum
Platyhelminthes).
3. (originally US, colloquial, derogatory) A person who is regarded as
slimy (that is, sneaky or underhanded) or otherwise undesirable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slimeball>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The mind has greater power over the emotions and is less subject
thereto, in so far as it understands all things as necessary.
--Ethica
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethics_%28Spinoza_book%29>