The fourteen episodes of the thirteenth season of South Park, an American animated television comedy series, originally aired in 2009. The show focuses on the exploits of protagonists Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Butters in the fictional Colorado mountain town of South Park. The 13th season satirized such topics as the ACORN scandal, Japanese whaling, piracy in Somalia and the marketing tactics of the Walt Disney Company. Celebrities were spoofed throughout the season, including the Jonas Brothers, Kanye West, Carlos Mencia, Paul Watson and Glenn Beck. The season received mixed reviews: some critics called it one of South Park's strongest seasons, while others claimed the series was starting to decline in quality. The season maintained the average Nielsen rating viewership for the series, around 3 million viewers per episode. The episode "Margaritaville", which satirized the global recession then affecting much of the industrialized world, won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). "Fatbeard" was praised by the crew of the USS Bainbridge, which was involved in the 2009 rescue of the MV Maersk Alabama from Somalian pirates.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1485:

Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field

1711:

Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the Saint Lawrence River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Expedition

1851:

The yacht America won the first America's Cup race (trophy pictured) near the Isle of Wight, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Cup

1910:

Japan annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule

1989:

Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out the Oakland Athletics' Rickey Henderson, becoming the only pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 5,000 strikeouts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Ryan

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

sheeple: (derogatory slang) People who unquestioningly accept as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopt popular opinion as their own without scrutiny. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheeple

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.   --Claude Debussy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy