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"Mother and Child Reunion" is the two-part pilot episode of the
Canadian teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation,
which premiered on 14 October 2001 on the CTV Television Network. As
with the majority of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes, "Mother
and Child Reunion" takes its title from a pop song, in this case, Paul
Simon's "Mother and Child Reunion". Degrassi: The Next Generation is
the fourth series in the fictional Degrassi universe created in 1979.
The episode reunited some of the previous characters in a ten-year high
school reunion (Stefan Brogren pictured), while also introducing a new
generation of Degrassi students. The main plot centres around Emma
Nelson, born during the preceding series Degrassi High, who is invited
to a hotel by an internet stalker, posing as a teenage boy. The episode
received mixed reviews from the mass media, and was nominated for two
Gemini Awards and two Directors Guild of Canada Awards. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the
earliest surviving motion picture, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire,
England.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince>
1912:
John Benjamin Murphy treated former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
after the latter was shot in an assassination attempt, having delivered
a speech with the bullet still in him.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benjamin_Murphy>
1926:
The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear
Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh>
1956:
B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly
converted to Buddhism, becoming the leader of the Dalit Buddhist
movement.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
swag (n):
1. A burglar's or thief's booty, plunder.
2. Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at
conventions.
3. (Australian, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something): he
wasted a swag of chances.
4. (slang) Style; a fashionable appearance or manner.
5. A low point
or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/swag>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long
entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire
proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose. We must be
willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices
may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its
principles soon loses both.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
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