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September 17  Courtney LaPlante Eternal Blue is the debut studio album by the Canadian heavy-metal band Spiritbox. It was released on September 17, 2021, through Pale Chord Records and Rise Records. Vocalist Courtney LaPlante (pictured) and guitarist Mike Stringer formed Spiritbox in 2016 following their departure from Iwrestledabearonce, and began development on Eternal Blue in 2018. Planned for an April 2020 release, progress halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After releasing "Holy Roller" and "Constance" as singles in the second half of 2020, the band finished the album by March 2021 with producer Daniel Braunstein. Showcasing influences from Slipknot, Deftones, Depeche Mode, and Tears for Fears, among other artists, Eternal Blue includes a diverse array of heavy-metal styles and electronic elements, and LaPlante used both screamed and clean vocals on the album. Once recording was completed, three more songs were released as singles preceding the album: "Circle with Me", "Secret Garden", and "Hurt You". (Full article...)
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September 18  Naval bombardment of Athens during the Noemvriana The Noemvriana was an armed confrontation in Athens on 1 December 1916 between the Kingdom of Greece and the Allied Powers and their supporters. The crisis arose from disputes over Greek neutrality during the First World War. The Allies feared a secret alliance between King Constantine I and the Central Powers that could endanger their army bivouacking in Thessaloniki. The establishment of Eleftherios Venizelos's Allied-backed provisional government in Thessaloniki to create an army in assistance to the Allies divided Greece. Failed negotiations prompted the Allies to land in Athens to compel the surrender of war materiel. They encountered organized resistance from royalist forces, triggering hours of fighting before a negotiated withdrawal. Their departure was followed by royalist mobs attacking Venizelists across Athens, marking the height of the National Schism. Following an Allied naval blockade (pictured) and Constantine's abdication, Greece joined the war, helping to secure the Allied victory. (Full article...)
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September 18  Map of Indo-European migrations Various sound laws have been proposed by historical linguists to explain how modern Indo-European languages and their subfamilies diverged from their Proto-Indo-European ancestor. The Indo-European language family comprises a vast number of languages and dialects spoken throughout the world today; these languages are descended from a common ancestor known as Proto-Indo-European, which scholars estimate was spoken about six thousand years ago. While it is generally thought that the Anatolian languages broke off first, the internal relations of the other widely-accepted subfamilies – Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, Italic, and Tocharian – are unclear and the subject of scholarly debate. (Full list...) | |||
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September 19 Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 48,604 at the 2021 census. Historically part of Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, 6 mi (10 km) east of Manchester. The "Ashton" in the town's name probably derives from Old English, meaning 'settlement by ash trees'. The origin of the suffix "-under-Lyne" is less clear; it possibly derives from the Brittonic-originating word lemo, meaning 'elm'. Ashton became a market town from 1414, when the manor was granted a royal charter. The factory system and textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution triggered a process of unplanned urbanisation in the area, and by the mid–19th century Ashton had emerged as an important mill town at a convergence of canals and railways. The town saw significant economic decline in the 1920s, with the majority of its mills closing due to insufficient exports. Nevertheless, Ashton has continued to thrive as a centre of commerce. (Full article...)
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September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day  Statue of Our Lady of La Salette
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September 20  Misti as seen from Arequipa Misti is a volcano in the southern Peruvian Andes, rising above Arequipa, Peru's second-largest city. Because it is only 12 km (8 mi) from Arequipa and its million-plus inhabitants, it is considered one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. Narrow valleys on its western and southern flanks pose particular threats, as mudflows and fast-moving flows of hot volcanic debris could be channelled into the urban area and into important infrastructure, like hydropower plants. The last two significant eruptions were 2,000 years ago and from 1440 to 1470. Even a moderate eruption could deposit volcanic ash and tephra over most of the city. A volcano observatory monitors the mountain. The Inca viewed the volcano as a threat, and during the 1440–1470 eruption offered human sacrifices (capacocha) on Misti and neighbouring mountains to placate the volcano. The mummies on Misti form the largest known Inca human sacrifice. (Full article...)
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September 21  The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance. Their output follows the International Gothic style and begins approximately with Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck (painting pictured) in the early 1420s, and lasts until at least the death of Gerard David in 1523 or to the start of the Dutch Revolt in 1566 or 1568. Other major figures include Rogier van der Weyden, Dieric Bouts, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes and Hieronymus Bosch. They made significant advances in natural representation and illusionism, and typically incorporated complex iconography. Their subjects were usually religious scenes or small portraits. Painted works are generally in oils on panel, either as single panels or complex altarpieces in the form of diptychs, triptychs or polyptychs. The era is further noted for its sculpture, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass and carved retables. (Full article...)
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September 21: International Day of Peace; Yom Kippur (Judaism, 2026)  I-80 in western Iowa
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September 21 .jpg) Humphrey Bogart c. 1937 Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) was an American actor and producer whose 36-year career began with live stage productions in New York in 1920. After the completion of his military service in the United States Navy, Bogart began working in theatrical productions. His debut as a theater actor was in the 1922 play Drifting. His body of stage work includes more than a dozen plays, and lasted a little over a decade. He began to pursue a career in film by 1928, first appearing in the short film The Dancing Town. Bogart appeared in 75 feature films, including The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, and Casablanca, the last of which earned Bogart his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Bogart won the award on his second nomination, for his 1951 performance in The African Queen. In addition to his film work, Bogart guest-starred in numerous radio and television programs, primarily reprising his film roles. He died of cancer in 1957. (Full list...) | |||
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September 22  Alison Frantz (1903–1995) was an archaeological photographer and Byzantine scholar. She worked at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens's Agora excavations and became its official photographer. Her photographs of the Linear B tablets were used for their first transcription and the decipherment of Linear B. She also restored the Church of the Holy Apostles. During the Second World War, Frantz joined the Office of Strategic Services and gathered intelligence on European exiles in the United States. She served on an Allied commission to observe the Greek elections of 1946 and was the US embassy in Athens's cultural attaché. Her publications included archaeological research into Ottoman Greece and photography of archaic kore sculptures, Byzantine architecture, and artifacts from the Aegean Bronze Age. Her work on late antiquity and later periods is considered pioneering and raised the scholarly standing of post-classical archaeology in Greece. (Full article...)
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September 23  Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), dubbed Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born cook who lived in the US and is believed to have infected up to 57 people with the bacteria that cause typhoid fever, with three confirmed deaths. Between 1897 and 1907, Mallon worked at several homes; residents at four of them contracted typhoid. In 1907, she was forcibly quarantined at Riverside Hospital, but was freed in 1910, promising not to work as a cook. A further outbreak at the Sloane Maternity Hospital, where she was working, resulted in 25 cases and two deaths in early 1915. She was again confined, remaining so until her death in 1938. Her nickname became a term for anyone who spreads disease. Mallon's case raises questions about the balance between individual liberty and public health. No other carrier of typhoid was confined for as long as she was. Her story has been reevaluated, particularly during outbreaks of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. (Full article...)
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September 23: Celebrate Bisexuality Day  Artist Depiction of the Battle of Arnemuiden
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September 23 There are 117 constituencies of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of Punjab, a state in North India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. It is housed within the Chandigarh Capitol Complex, a World Heritage Site designed by Le Corbusier. The state legislative assembly's 117 members are directly elected from single-seat constituencies and sit for a term of five years, unless it is dissolved early. Punjab is the nineteenth-largest state in India, and the fifteenth-most populous state with a population of 27.7 million. Since the independence of India, the Scheduled Castes (SC) have been given reservation status, guaranteeing political representation, and the Constitution lays down the general principles of positive discrimination for SCs. The Scheduled Castes have been granted a reservation of 34 seats in the assembly. (Full list...) | |||
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September 24  Kouji Okada, co-creator of Persona Persona, previously marketed as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona outside Japan, is a video game franchise primarily developed by Atlus and owned by Sega. Centered around a series of Japanese role-playing video games, Persona is a spin-off from Atlus's Megami Tensei franchise. The first entry in the series, Revelations: Persona, was released in 1996 for the PlayStation. The series has seen several more games since, with the most recent main entry being Persona 3 Reload (2024). Persona began as a spin-off based on the positively-received high school setting of Shin Megami Tensei If... (1994). The series's core features include a group of students as the main cast, a silent protagonist similar to the mainline Megami Tensei franchise, and combat using Personas. Beginning with Persona 3 in 2006, the main series came to focus more on, and become renowned for, the immersive social-simulation elements that came with the addition of Social Links, which are directly linked to how Personas evolve. (Full article...)
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September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973) .jpg) Battle of San Juan de Ulúa
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