Kampung Boy is a Malaysian animated television series. It is about the
adventures of a young boy, Mat, and his life in a kampung (village). The
series is adapted from the eponymous autobiographical graphic novel by
local cartoonist Lat (pictured). It had two seasons and twenty-six
episodes, one of which won an Annecy Award. The series was first shown
on the Malaysian satellite television network Astro before being
distributed to sixty other countries. It ran for one year from
September 1999. A main theme of Kampung Boy is the contrast between the
traditional rural way of life and the modern urban lifestyle. The series
promotes the village lifestyle as a healthy, fun environment for an
intelligent child. It proposes that new values and technologies should
be carefully examined. Lat's animation was praised for its technical
work and content, and Malaysian critics held up the series as an
exemplar for their country's animators. Academics regarded the series as
using modern technologies to preserve Malaysian history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampung_Boy_%28TV_series%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
The Convention Parliament met to decide the fate of the throne
after James II, the last Catholic monarch of England, fled to France
following the Glorious Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England>
1906:
SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island,
Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of
the Pacific.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Valencia>
1973:
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in Roe v.
Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first two
trimesters of pregnancy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade>
2012:
Croatia held a referendum, in which it voted to become a member
of the European Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Croatian_European_Union_membership_referendum>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
furtive:
1. Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
2. Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally)
taken stealthily.
3. Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
4. Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/furtive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle, if I
were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to
have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this,
that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to
preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.
--Francis Bacon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon>