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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers is a science-fiction action film released on November 7, 1997. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, it is based on the 1959 novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (pictured). The story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his comrades as they serve in a 23rd-century interstellar war against aliens called the Arachnids. The film stars Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, and Michael Ironside. Starship Troopers faced critical backlash, with reviewers seeing it as endorsing fascism, and disparaging its violent content. Despite initial box-office success, negative reviews and unfavorable word of mouth made it only the 34th-highest-grossing film of 1997. It has since been critically re-evaluated, and is now considered a cult classic and a satire of fascism and authoritarianism that has grown in relevancy. The film launched a multimedia franchise, video games, comics, and a variety of merchandise. (Full article...)

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Dalmatian pelican

The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is a bird in the family Pelecanidae. With a length of 160–183 cm, a mass of 7.25–15 kg and a wingspan of 245–351 cm, it is the largest of the pelican species and one of the world's largest living flying birds. It has a range spanning across much of Central Eurasia, from the Mediterranean in the west to the Taiwan Strait in the east, and from the Persian Gulf in the south to Siberia in the north. It is a short-to-medium-distance migrant between breeding and overwintering areas. Its preferred habitat is lakes, rivers, deltas and estuaries and it feeds on various fish species such as the common carp and European perch. Like many pelicans, the Dalmatian pelican is often silent, but can be vocal during the mating season, engaging in a wide range of guttural, deep vocalisations, including barks, hisses and grunts. This Dalmatian pelican in flight was photographed over the Danube Delta in Romania.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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Typhoon Haiyan

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While i realize we have virtually have a year to think about it, but i think we should include Typhoon Haiyan within the Selected anniversaries for November 7. I chose the date since it is the date of its first landfall in the Philippines and am nominating it since it is confirmed that the typhoon killed over 5000 people.Jason Rees (talk) 05:36, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To avoid recentism, we don't generally include articles on events until they are at least two years old, although I may break that rule when the day in question has a short list of eligible articles, which is not the case here. —howcheng {chat} 11:35, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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