Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television
series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda
Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Like its predecessors, Degrassi: The
Next Generation follows a group of students at Degrassi Community
School who face challenges common to teen life, such as self image,
peer pressure, child abuse, sexual identity, gang violence,
self-injury, teenage pregnancy, and drug abuse. The series was created
by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore, and is produced by Epitome Pictures in
association with the CTV Television Network. The series is filmed at
Epitome's studios in Toronto, Ontario, rather than on the real De
Grassi Street from which the franchise takes its name. A critical
success, Degrassi: The Next Generation has often received favourable
reviews from Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and
AfterElton.com. In its initial years, it was frequently the most
watched domestic drama series in Canada, and one of the highest-rated
shows on The N in the United States. The series premiered on CTV on 14
October 2001, and the ninth season will finish on 16 July 2010 with the
made-for-TV film "Degrassi Takes Manhattan" on Canada's MuchMusic.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1769:
Spanish friar Junípero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá
(pictured today), the first Franciscan mission in the Alta California
region of New Spain.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Diego_de_Alcal%C3%A1>
1790:
The United States Congress passed the Residence Act, selecting a new
permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United
States, which latter became Washington, D.C.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C.>
1945:
Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion, was
detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29>
1983:
A British Airways Sikorsky S-61 helicopter crashed in the Celtic Sea
when en route from Penzance in England to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly in
thick fog, killing 20 of the 26 on board, and sparking a review of
helicopter safety in the United Kingdom.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_British_Airways_Sikorsky_S-61_crash>
1994:
Fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet began hitting the planet
Jupiter, with the first one causing a fireball which reached a peak
temperature of about 24,000 K.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
amygdala (n):
The region of the brain believed to play a key role in the emotions,
such as fear and pleasure
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amygdala>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My
life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and
that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and
the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot
conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.
--Sheri S. Tepper
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper>