Elinor Fettiplace (c.1570 – in or after 1647) was an English cookery book writer. Probably born in Pauntley, Gloucestershire into an upper-class land-owning farming family, she married into the well-connected Fettiplace family and moved to a manor house in the Vale of White Horse, Berkshire. In common with many ladies of the Elizabethan era, Fettiplace wrote a manuscript book with details of recipes for dishes and meals, medical remedies and tips for running the household. She dated the work 1604, but it is possible that she began writing it several years earlier, when she was still living with her mother. The book was passed down through her family, initially to her niece, until it was handed to the husband of the twentieth-century writer Hilary Spurling. Fettiplace's husband died in 1615; she moved back to Gloucestershire and married a local man, Edward Rogers, who died in 1623. She lived until at least 1647. (Full article...)

Fort George

• ... that Fort George (pictured) was the execution site of Maurice Bishop, the prime minister of Grenada?
• ... that choreographer Nat Horne's father, a Baptist minister, opposed dancing, and Horne began his dance training by sneaking out of Saturday-night prayer meetings?
• ... that the television drama This Thriving Land revived public interest in Chinese sage?
• ... that Red Seidelson worked as a dentist at the same time he played in the NFL?
• ... that in 1982 HMS Junella carried a naval mine from the Falkland Islands to Great Britain on her deck, covered by a wet mattress to keep the explosives cool?
• ... that Indonesia's ambassador to the United Nations Umar Hadi co-produced a movie during his tenure as consul general in Los Angeles?
• ... that the Mongol forces at the Chem River Battle used carts with iron-shod wheels to handle the rocky terrain?
• ... that Bijal P. Trivedi wrote on how cystic fibrosis went from being a "death sentence" for children to becoming a treatable condition due to new drugs that brought "weeping with joy"?
• ... that the school of Corpus Christi Church educated at least eleven sets of twins during the 1953 school year?

David Szalay

• David Szalay (pictured) is awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh.
• American molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at the age of 97.
• UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes after takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, United States, killing 14 people.
• Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 240 people dead in the Philippines.

November 14: World Diabetes Day; Dobruja Day in Romania

Eugene Burton Ely taking off from USS Birmingham

• 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
• 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
• 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
• 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932, chartered by the Marshall University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.
• 2010 – Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.

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  巴西卡皮瓦拉山脈國家公園，一隻红绿金刚鹦鹉（Ara chloropterus）的眼睛微距照片。

270 Park Avenue, also known as the JPMorgan Chase Tower and the Union Carbide Building, was a skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Built in 1960 for Union Carbide, it was designed by the architects Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The 52-story skyscraper, which later became the global headquarters for JPMorgan Chase, was demolished in 2021 to make way for a taller skyscraper at the same address. At that time, the Union Carbide Building was the tallest voluntarily demolished building in the world. The building occupied a full city block bounded by Madison Avenue, 48th Street, Park Avenue, and 47th Street. It included a 52-story tower facing Park Avenue to the east and a 12-story annex facing Madison Avenue to the west, along with public plazas. About two-thirds of 270 Park Avenue was built atop two levels of underground railroad tracks, which feed into the nearby Grand Central Terminal. (Full article...)

Sidney Gish

• ... that Sidney Gish (pictured) has described her composition process as "Frankensteining"?
• ... that the roof of Aljunied station has been described as a "caterpillar" and a "rib cage"?
• ... that a Japanese YouTuber launched a project aiming to "eradicate poverty in Ghana"?
• ... that the Coldplay song "Politik", written on September 11, 2001, was inspired by the September 11 attacks?
• ... that a neo-Nazi was offered $5,000 by Richard Nixon's election fundraising group for his participation in a scheme to help Nixon's campaign?
• ... that North Korean archaeological papers, inspired by the state ideology of Juche, often contain nationalist elements?
• ... that Pedro Berroeta Morales, a diplomat and later the president of a Venezuelan television channel, has also written fiction and essays on topics from science to esotericism?
• ... that the comic novel Diary of a Provincial Lady provided inspiration for later fictional diaries such as the Bridget Jones series?
• ... that freelance journalist Phil Patton's collection of coffee-cup lids was featured in the Cincinnati Art Museum?

James Watson

• American molecular biologist James Watson (pictured), co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at the age of 97.
• UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes after takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, United States, killing 14 people.
• The United States federal government shutdown becomes the longest in US history.
• Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 240 people dead in the Philippines.

November 13

Nevado del Ruiz

• 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot forces captured Montreal without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec.
• 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
• 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
• 2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.

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  波蘭扎科帕內，位於Jaszczurówka街區的聖心教堂。

Bejeweled is a 2000 match-three video game developed and published by PopCap Games. The game involves lining up three or more multi-colored gems to clear them from the game board, and was inspired by a similar browser game, titled Colors Game. Originally released in 2000 under the title Diamond Mine as a browser game on the team's official website, Bejeweled was licensed to be hosted on MSN Games under its current name. PopCap released a retail version titled Bejeweled Deluxe in May 2001. Bejeweled has since been ported to many platforms, particularly mobile devices. The game has been commercially successful, having sold more than 10 million copies and been downloaded more than 150 million times. It is credited with popularizing match-three video games and launching the casual games industry, which grew to be worth $3 billion within a decade. The game was followed by a commercially successful series of sequels and spin-offs. (Full article...)

Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion

• ... that the Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion (pictured) in New York City was designed by Charles C. Haight, whose father had previously served in the clergy of the chapel's parish?
• ... that archaeologist Arne Furumark intended to follow a career in business until he visited the British Museum as a teenager?
• ... that the 2025 book The World After Gaza was deemed "repugnant" and "monstrous" for being both overly and insufficiently critical of Israel?
• ... that future NFL player Kato Serwanga's family fled Uganda when he was a child after three of his uncles were murdered and his father was nearly killed by Idi Amin's regime?
• ... that Yew Tee station has a kampong-styled roof and a colour scheme that blends in with its surroundings?
• ... that the second president of the American Association of Geographers had no formal geography education?
• ... that the long hair of the Red Yao people in China has become a tourist attraction?
• ... that Victor-David Mbuyi Bipungu went from being a Catholic priest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to becoming an Anglican bishop in Canada?
• ... that two full freight cars were swallowed in 1918 at what is now Glory Hole Park?

James Watson

• American molecular biologist James Watson (pictured), co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at the age of 97.
• UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes after takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, United States, killing at least 14 people.
• The United States federal government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history.
• Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 240 people dead in the Philippines.

November 12

The Battle of Posada

• 1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada (depicted).
• 1920 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.
• 1940 – World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
• 1970 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.
• 2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.

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  詹姆斯·蒙哥马利·弗拉格所創作的第一次世界大战美國陸軍募兵海報。今天是美國老兵节。

Gough Whitlam (left) and Malcolm Fraser (right)

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as prime minister and appointed Malcolm Fraser, the opposition leader, as caretaker. The Whitlam government had been rocked by scandals and political miscalculations. In October, the Opposition blocked bills in the Senate financing the government, and urged Kerr to dismiss Whitlam unless he agreed to call an election for the House of Representatives. On 11 November, Whitlam intended to call a half-Senate election instead, but when he met with Kerr to seek his approval, Kerr dismissed him as prime minister. Before the ALP parliamentarians knew what had happened, Fraser and his allies secured passage of the appropriation bills and Kerr dissolved Parliament. Fraser and his government were returned with a large majority in the following month's election. Kerr resigned early as governor-general and lived much of his remaining life abroad. (Full article...)

Death of Isabella II

• ... that two queens of Jerusalem—Maria and her daughter, Isabella II—died in childbirth (pictured), one after delivering the other?
• ... that Al Sheehan, despite being WCCO's expert on contract bridge, did not know "a trump from a rubber"?
• ... that chloroform extracts from the seeds of the Spanish fennel flower have exhibited anti-inflammatory properties?
• ... that Sabine Kirchmeier reported her mayor to the police as a local politician, and then became the first director of the Danish Language Council?
• ... that sound recordings were not copyrighted under United States law until 1972?
• ... that Leik Myrabo invented a laser-propelled type of spacecraft?
• ... that the premiere of the second season of Arrested Development required David Cross to paint himself blue, taking up to three showers a day to remove the paint?
• ... that Formula One drivers are required to wear fire-resistant underwear for safety reasons?
• ... that Burger Continental served dishes like "Chicken Erotica" to jurors in high-profile cases, including the trials of O. J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers?

James Watson

• American molecular biologist James Watson (pictured), co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at the age of 97.
• UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes after takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, United States, killing at least 14 people.
• The United States federal government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history.
• Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 240 people dead in the Philippines.

November 11: Armistice Day (known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations and Veterans Day in the United States); Singles' Day in China and Southeast Asia.

Ian Smith

• 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Dürenstein.
• 1920 – In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
• 1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
• 1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after he falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
• 1965 – Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith (pictured), unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.

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