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Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. She became a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi at the Imperial court around 1005, and continued to write during her service, adding scenes from court life to her work, reflected in The Diary of Lady Murasaki. After several years, she left court and retired with Shōshi to the Lake Biwa region. Within a decade of its completion, Genji was distributed throughout the provinces; within a century it was recognized as a classic of Japanese literature and became the subject of scholarly criticism. The Tale of Genji was translated into English in the early 20th century; scholars continue to recognize the importance of her work, which reflects Heian court society at its peak. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that composer Guglielmo Zuelli (pictured), a former director of the Palermo Conservatory, spent time in prison before the age of eight?
- ... that Tournament of Kings made its host the United States' biggest buyer of Cornish game hens in 2018?
- ... that if James Stuart-Wortley had not falsified his age for the 1853 general election, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke would now be New Zealand's youngest-ever member of parliament?
- ... that the statue of Trần Hưng Đạo in Mê Linh Square was erected by the South Vietnamese Navy, who regarded him as a patron saint?
- ... that Hanthawaddy royal Saw Maha-Rit was executed for leaving behind his wife Princess Tala Mi Kyaw on the battlefield?
- ... that although Quentin Tarantino thought "Wiseman" was "fantastic", he could not find a scene for it in his film Django Unchained?
- ... that in 1974, Oliver C. Dawson was the first black person to be inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame?
- ... that The Sims 2: Apartment Life is not about apartment life?
In the news
- In baseball, the Texas Rangers defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the World Series (MVP Corey Seager pictured).
- In motorsport, Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen win the World Rally Championship.
- In rugby union, South Africa beat New Zealand in the World Cup final.
- A coal mine fire in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, kills 46 people.
On this day
November 3: Culture Day in Japan
- 1793 – French Revolution: Playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
- 1898 – The Fashoda Incident ended with French forces withdrawing after several months of military stalemate with the British in Fashoda (now in South Sudan).
- 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces began an attempt to encircle and destroy a regiment of Imperial Japanese Army troops on Guadalcanal.
- 1948 – The Chicago Daily Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" (pictured) in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. president Harry S. Truman officially upset the heavily favored governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the presidential election.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog Laika as the first living creature to enter orbit around Earth.
- Achilles Gasser (b. 1505)
- Kinjirō Ashiwara (b. 1850)
- Bangalore Nagarathnamma (b. 1878)
- Ronald Barnes (d. 1997)
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Warming stripes (sometimes referred to as climate stripes or climate timelines) are graphics that use a series of chronologically ordered coloured stripes to visualize trends in the temperature record of Earth. They employ a minimalist style, avoiding technical distractions by using colour alone to intuitively convey trends in global warming to non-scientists. The initial concept of visualizing historical temperature data has been extended to use animations, to visualize sea level rise and predictive climate data, and to visually juxtapose temperature trends with other data series, such as the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, global glacier retreat, precipitation, the contribution of aviation emissions to global warming, and biodiversity loss. These warming stripes were published by the British climatologist Ed Hawkins in 2018, using data from the World Meteorological Organization. The colours represent the annual mean global temperature for each year from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right) – the progression from blue (cooler) to red (warmer) stripes is indicative of global warming. Graphic credit: Ed Hawkins
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