" Lisa the Skeptic" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season, first aired in November 1997. On an archaeological dig with her class, Lisa discovers a skeleton that resembles an angel. All of the townspeople believe that the skeleton actually came from an angel, but skeptical Lisa attempts to persuade them that there must be a rational scientific explanation, asking the American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to test a sample. After Gould tells Lisa that the tests were inconclusive, she compares the belief in angels to the belief in unicorns and leprechauns and in response, Springfield's religious zealots go on a rampage to destroy all scientific institutions. The episode's writer David X. Cohen (pictured) developed the idea after visiting the American Museum of Natural History, and decided to loosely parallel themes from the Scopes Monkey Trial. The episode received generally positive reviews. It has been discussed in the context of virtual reality, ontology, existentialism, and skepticism; it has also been used in Christian religious education classes to initiate discussion about angels, skepticism, science, and faith. ( Full article...)

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• ... that The Vulcan (pictured), a historic public house in Cardiff, Wales, was completely dismantled in 2012 and is planned to be rebuilt at the National History Museum?
• ... that Swami Vivekananda is credited with raising interfaith awareness and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century?
• ... that the song " Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
• ... that Alan Kirby won the FAI Cup four times?
• ... that a scene with a topless woman was added into the British film The Projected Man to increase sales overseas?
• ... that Air Centrafrique was conceived to provide feeder services to Air Afrique?
• ... that film composer Leo Erdody's potentially noble ancestry led to him occasionally billing himself as simply " Erdody"?

• In baseball, the Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series and the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles defeat the Yomiuri Giants to win the Japan Series.
• Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is confirmed killed in a drone strike.
• The Marmaray rail tunnel (pictured) under the Bosphorus opens, connecting the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
• The Front for Victory loses seats but retains its majority in the Argentine legislative election.
• Giorgi Margvelashvili is elected President of Georgia.

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November 4: Islamic New Year (2013, 1435 AH); New Year's Day in the Nepal Sambat calendar (2013); Unity Day in Russia

• 1890 – London's City and South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened, running a distance of 5.1 km (3.2 mi) between the City of London and Stockwell.
• 1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time.
• 1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall (pictured in 2010) observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool use by animals.
• 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
• 2008 – Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.

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Since its debut, Arrested Development has won and been nominated for a variety of awards. The series has been nominated for twenty-five Primetime Emmy Awards (six wins, including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2004), eight Television Critics Association Awards (three wins), three Golden Globe Awards (one win), three Writers Guild of America Awards (one win) and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz won three Primetime Emmy Awards from six nominations for his role as a writer and producer of the series. For his portrayal of Michael Bluth, lead actor Jason Bateman (pictured) has been nominated for eight individual awards, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and two Satellite Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. To date, Arrested Development has been nominated for 65 awards and has won 26. ( Full list...)