"The Body" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it originally aired on The WB Television Network in the United States on February 27, 2001. In the series, Buffy Summers is a teenager chosen by mystical forces and endowed with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale. In "The Body", Buffy discovers the body of her mother, who has died of a brain aneurysm. In the series Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in gruesome and fantastic ways, but in this episode they are bewildered by the natural death of Buffy's mother and struggle to comprehend what the loss means to them. Buffy must begin to face her life and her duties as the Slayer without parental support and comfort. "The Body" is regarded by many critics as one of the best episodes of the series.

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1776:

American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the arrests of 850 Loyalists over the following days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moore%27s_Creek_Bridge

1933:

The Reichstag building, the seat of the German parliament in Berlin, was set on fire in a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

1996:

The multimedia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release of the video games Pocket Monsters: Red and Green. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue

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pronoia: 1. (philosophy, theology) Divine providence, foreknowledge, foresight. 2. (historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land, fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of military service. […] 3. (psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people conspire to do one good. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronoia

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