X-Files. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David
Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to
the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, they investigate a
series of murders following sexual encounters, and soon discover that a
member of a religious sect living in Massachusetts may be
responsible—and may not be human. Premiering on the Fox network on
January 21, 1994, it was directed by Rob Bowman and featured guest
appearances by Brent Hinkley and Nicholas Lea. The episode was inspired
by producer Glen Morgan's desire for "an episode with more of a sexy
edge"; however, the writers found it difficult to write a story that
showed sex as scary. This difficulty led to the introduction of an
Amish-like community as well. "Gender Bender" had mixed critical
responses, facing criticism for its abrupt deus ex machina ending.
Academic analysis of the episode has placed it within a science-fiction
tradition that attributes a powerful, supernatural element to physical
contact with aliens. It has also been seen as reflecting anxieties about
emerging gender roles in the 1990s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Bender_(The_X-Files)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1796:
English physician Edward Jenner began testing cowpox as a
vaccine for protection against smallpox.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner>
1804:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition led by explorers Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford,
Illinois, and began the first American overland expedition to the
Pacific coast and back.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition>
1868:
Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the
Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards NikkÅ and Aizu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Utsunomiya_Castle>
1925:
Mrs Dalloway, one the best-known novels of English modernist
author Virginia Woolf, was first published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway>
1943:
Second World War: The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was
attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland,
killing 268 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHS_Centaur>
1973:
The NASA space station Skylab was launched from Cape Canaveral.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sumptuous:
Magnificent, splendid, extremely good.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sumptuous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes
us all in turn, some soon, some late.
--H. Rider Haggard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard>
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