"The Truth" was the two-hour ninth-season finale of the American science
fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on May 19, 2002.
Written by series creator Chris Carter and directed by Kim Manners, the
finale was the most-watched episode of the ninth season, with
13.25 million viewers. It received mixed reviews, with many
commentators criticizing its lack of closure. Others were pleased with
the episode's conclusion and with the full return of actor David
Duchovny (pictured) as Fox Mulder, following his departure from the
series after the eighth-season finale. The ninth season focused on the
paranormal investigations of FBI special agents John Doggett (Robert
Patrick), Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), and Dana Scully (Gillian
Anderson). In the finale, Scully learns that Mulder—who had been
missing for almost a year—was being held for the supposed murder of a
bioenhanced soldier in a secret government program. "The Truth" served
to conclude many story arcs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_%28The_X-Files%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1903:
Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which
existed for only ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kru%C5%A1evo_Republic>
1929:
Jiddu Krishnamurti, believed likely to be the messianic "World
Teacher" by Charles Webster Leadbeater, shocked the Theosophy movement
by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation established to
support him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_in_the_East>
1940:
World War II: Italy began an invasion of British Somaliland and
captured the region in 16 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_conquest_of_British_Somaliland>
2005:
President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was
overthrown in a military coup while he was attending the funeral of King
Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kite:
1. (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy
kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as
costs) to increase rapidly.
2. (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing
the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the
difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical
prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other
items.
3. (transitive, video games) To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to
attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a
kite (“bird”).
5. (transitive, intransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a
cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or
expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque
clears.
6. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
7. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also,
usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
8. (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
9. (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
10. (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the
water.
11. (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed)
letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a
prison.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The river rolled below him and the river did not care. Nothing
mattered to the river. It would take the tusk of mastodon, the skull of
sabertooth, the rib cage of a man, the dead and sunken tree, the thrown
rock or rifle and would swallow each of them and cover them in mud or
sand and roll gurgling over them, hiding them from sight. A million
years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come
there might be no river — but in a million years from now there would
be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the
universe, Enoch told himself — a thing that went on caring.
--Clifford D. Simak
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak>