"Confirmed Dead" is the second episode of the fourth season and 74th
episode overall of the drama television series Lost. It marks the first
appearance of main characters Miles Straume (played by Ken Leung) and
Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader, pictured) and supporting character Frank
Lapidus (Jeff Fahey). The actors were given fake scenes when auditioning
to limit the leak of spoilers and each actor influenced their
character's development. Mader's and Fahey's appearances were different
from the writers' original visions of Charlotte and Frank—the writers
changed the characters to suit them. The narrative begins 91 days after
the crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 on a tropical island somewhere
in the South Pacific Ocean. Flashbacks introduce four people from an
offshore freighter who land on the island. The episode, which first
aired in America and Canada on February 7, 2008, was written by Drew
Goddard and Brian K. Vaughan and directed by Stephen Williams. It was
watched by seventeen million Americans and received generally positive
critical reception as reviewers praised the introduction of the new
characters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmed_Dead>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
457:
Leo I was crowned Byzantine emperor, and went on to rule for
nearly 20 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_the_Thracian>
1914:
The film Kid Auto Races at Venice, featuring the first
appearance of comedy actor Charlie Chaplin's character "The Tramp"
(pictured), was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin>
1943:
World War II: Japan successfully withdrew its troops from
Guadalcanal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ke>
1999:
Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan>
2009:
A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the
Australian state of Victoria on Black Saturday, eventually resulting in
173 total deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in
Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
conlanger:
Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conlanger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brother.
--Charles Dickens
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens>