Recreation originally aired on April 9, 2009. It was written by series
co-creators Michael Schur and Greg Daniels, and directed by Daniels. The
episode introduces the protagonist Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler
(pictured), a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation
department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Knope sets out to
turn a construction pit into a park after local nurse Ann Perkins
(Rashida Jones) complains about it. Her anti-government boss Ron Swanson
(Nick Offerman) reluctantly allows her to form an exploratory committee
after her friend and colleague Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider)
secretly intervenes. Daniels and Schur began writing the script in the
summer of 2008, when they were in the early stages of conceiving the
series. The episode received generally mixed reviews, although Poehler
was widely praised by most television critics. According to Nielsen
Media Research, it was watched by 6.77 million households in its
original airing. Like the rest of the series, it was filmed in the same
mockumentary style as The Office, the NBC comedy series also created by
Daniels.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_(Parks_and_Recreation)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1413:
Henry V, who is featured in three plays by William Shakespeare,
was crowned King of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_England>
1917:
First World War: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of
attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge>
1940:
During the German invasion of Norway, Vidkun Quisling seized
control of the government in a Nazi-backed coup d'état.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling>
1959:
NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven (pictured),
the first astronauts in Project Mercury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Seven>
2003:
Invasion of Iraq: Coalition forces captured Baghdad and the
statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square was toppled.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdos_Square_statue_destruction>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unheralded:
Without prior warning; unexpected or unannounced.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unheralded>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
--Francis Bacon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon>
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