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Today's featured article Jacket from The Birds The Birds is the fifth collection by Alexander McQueen for his fashion house. It was inspired by ornithology and the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds. The collection centred around sharply tailored garments and emphasised female sexuality. The runway show was staged on 9 October 1994 and the venue was a warehouse in the London district of King's Cross. The Birds was styled with imagery of violence and death; some models were covered in tyre tracks and others wore white contact lenses. Reception was generally positive, although the styling drew accusations of misogyny. The show's success allowed McQueen to secure the financial backing to stage his next show, Highland Rape. Garments from The Birds appeared in both stagings of the retrospective exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. Seán McGirr heavily referenced The Birds for Autumn/Winter 2024, his debut collection as creative director for the Alexander McQueen brand. (Full article...) Recently featured: Tony Hawk's Underground Thunderbirds Markham's storm petrel Did you know... Farnese Artemis in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples ... that while the objects on the Farnese Artemis (pictured) had initially been identified as female breasts, the museum housing the statue now describes them as bull scrotums? ... that in the history of fisheries in the Philippines, the once-dominant local municipal fisheries were supplanted first by commercial fisheries, and then by aquaculture? ... that Eliza Legzdina has attributed opinions of her work to the "horrification of the female body"? ... that the center squeeze has been blamed for costing Gary Johnson the 2016 US presidential election? ... that voice actress Atsuko Tanaka often named pandas? ... that seven people died when their helicopter struck supporting wires of a Texas TV station's tower and crashed? ... that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College? ... that Jer Lau, who appeared in the film Over My Dead Body, also performed its theme song because the director felt his role was too minor? ... that the search for mammals on Booby Island was a bust?

In the news John Hopfield (left) and Geoffrey Hinton John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton (both pictured) receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks. A gang attack on the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé leaves seventy people dead and fifty others injured. More than twenty people die in flooding and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A school bus crash and fire in Pathum Thani, Thailand, kills twenty-two school children and three teachers. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Johan Neeskens Christopher Ciccone Humberto Ortega Gavin Creel Rohan de Saram Stoika Milanova On this day... October 9: Leif Erikson Day in the United States, parts of Canada, and communities in the Nordic countries Empress Marie Louise 1813 – Late in the Napoleonic Wars, Empress Marie Louise (pictured) issued decrees conscripting tens of thousands of French teenagers, who became known as Marie-Louises. 1874 – The Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify disparate postal services and regulations so that international mail could be exchanged easily. 1914 – World War I: The civilian authorities of Antwerp surrendered and allowed the German army to capture the city. 2019 – Syrian civil war: Turkish forces began an offensive into north-eastern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region. Reginald Dyer (b. 1864) William E. Woods (b. 1949) Rockin' Robin (b. 1964) Oskar Schindler (d. 1974) More anniversaries: October 8 October 9 October 10

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