Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that ran for four
series between September 2005 and August 2008. Blending more traditional
animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series
told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of
meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari
Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and
evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. With
the success of the programme in the UK, Animal Planet started
broadcasting it on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the
US. It has since been rebroadcast in more than 160 other countries.
Although the show faced criticism from viewers for not intervening when
a meerkat was injured and faced death, as a whole Meerkat Manor enjoyed
considerable success, and its experimental format broke new ground in
animal documentary filming techniques. It was nominated for two
Primetime Emmy Awards in 2007, and was a winner at the 2006 Omni Awards
and at the 2006 and 2007 New York Festivals Award Galas.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat_Manor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1918:
World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat to the Allied
Powers, Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of his son
Boris III (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_III_of_Bulgaria>
1935:
Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia
during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bono%27s_invasion_of_Abyssinia>
1951:
In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson
hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run in the
bottom of the ninth inning to win the National League pennant after
being down 14 games.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)>
1963:
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran President Ramón
Villeda Morales in a violent coup and initiated two decades of military
rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2013:
A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the
Italian island of Lampedusa, with a second boat sinking eight days
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unitive:
Causing or characterized by unity or union.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unitive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion
field that I've ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote
watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what
we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
--John Perry Barlow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow>
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