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Roger Moore, who starred in the novel's film adaptation

Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Set in London, the US and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. Fleming wrote the novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica before his first book, Casino Royale, was published. The story centres on Bond's pursuit of Mr Big, who has links to an American criminal network, the world of voodoo and SMERSH—an arm of the Russian secret service—all of which are threats to the West. Bond becomes involved in the US through Mr Big's smuggling of 17th-century gold coins from British territories in the Caribbean. The novel deals with themes of the ongoing East–West struggle of the Cold War, including British and American relations, Britain's position in the world, race relations and the struggle between good and evil. It was adapted in 1973 as the eighth film in the Eon Productions Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore (pictured) as Bond. (Full article...)

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Judah Samet

... that attendees at President Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address sang "Happy Birthday" to Judah Samet (pictured), a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting?
... that William Kempster's 8.44-metre-long (27.7 ft) mural British Air Transport – The Pioneering Days depicts people and aircraft from British aviation between 1919 and 1934?
... that Cole Porter's nickname for his romantic partner Nelson Barclift was "cute little nose"?
... that Cape Fugui, the northernmost point on Taiwan, includes a beach with ventifacts?
... that both Tom Ballard and his mother Alison Hargreaves died climbing in the Himalayas, more than 23 years apart?
... that Hubbard's angel insects groom themselves and each other, perhaps in order to avoid the fungal diseases that kill many zorapterans?
... that Dai Fudong designed Mao Zedong's villa and asked Ronald Reagan to have his father's Legion of Merit medal reissued?
... that Marjorie Paxson was twice demoted and replaced by a male editor when two different newspapers replaced their women’s sections with features sections?
... that La Région Centrale was filmed by a robot?

In the news

Flooding in Golestan Province, Iran

In Iran, widespread flooding since late March kills at least 62 people (flooding in Golestan Province pictured).
Zuzana Čaputová is elected president of Slovakia, becoming the country's first female president and its youngest.
A Special Counsel investigation, headed by Robert Mueller, concludes and reports its findings to the United States Attorney General.
At least 160 people are killed in attacks against Fulani herdsmen in central Mali.

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April 5: Hansik in South Korea

Pocahontas

1614 – Native American Pocahontas (pictured) married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first fully fledged law regulating copyright, received royal assent and went into effect five days later in Great Britain.
1986 – The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, killing 3 people and injuring 229 others.
2000 – Before a semi-final of the 2000 UEFA Cup in Istanbul, violence broke out that resulted in two Leeds United fans being stabbed to death.
2009 – The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (b. 1769) · Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863) · María Blanchard (d. 1932)

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Rabindranath Tagore

Twelve of the 904 Nobel Prize recipients are Indians (five Indian citizens and seven of Indian origin or residency). Rabindranath Tagore (pictured) was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, instituted by Alfred Nobel's last will, which specified that a part of his fortune be used to create the prizes. Each laureate (recipient) receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation. On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Mahatma Gandhi was nominated unsuccessfully for the Peace Prize five times (from 1937 to 1939, in 1947 and a few days before he was assassinated in January 1948). In 2006, Geir Lundestad, the Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee, cited it as "the greatest omission in our 106-year history". (Full list...)

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Elk Bath is a wildlife photograph by John McColgan, a fire behavior expert working for the Alaska Fire Service division of the US Bureau of Land Management. It was taken on August 6, 2000, on the East Fork of the Bitterroot River on the Sula complex in the state of Montana. The picture shows two elk seeking protection from a raging wildfire by standing in the river. It was one of the Time magazine Photos of the Year 2000. McColgan took the picture with a Kodak DC280 digital camera.

Photograph: John McColgan

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