"The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" is the second episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Originally airing November 14, 1999, on the Fox network, it was directed by Michael Watkins and written by series creator Chris Carter and lead actor David Duchovny, who plays Fox Mulder. Mimi Rogers (pictured) guest-starred in her last appearance in the series. The X-Files centers on Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents Mulder and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Scully returns from Africa to discover Mulder in a coma induced by exposure to shards from an alien spaceship wreck. After Mulder awakens from his coma, he realizes his duty to prevent alien colonization. Carter explored themes of extraterrestrial involvement in ancient mass extinctions in this episode, the third in a trilogy focused on Mulder's severe reaction to an alien artifact. Initial reviews were mixed, but later critics viewed the episode in a more positive light and several writers named it among the show's best.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1910:

Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Burton_Ely

1941:

Second World War: After suffering torpedo damage the previous day, the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sank as she was being towed to Gibraltar for repairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91)

1960:

Ruby Bridges became the first black child to attend an all- white elementary school in Louisiana as part of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_school_desegregation_crisis

1984:

Cesar Climaco, mayor of Zamboanga City, the Philippines, was assassinated by an unknown gunman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Climaco

2003:

Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna (artist's impression pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

yurt: A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yurt

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Great causes and little men go ill together.   --Jawaharlal Nehru https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru