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Brasenose College, Oxford, where Reynolds taught

Leighton Durham Reynolds (1930–1999) was a British Latinist who is best known for his work on textual criticism. He spent his teaching career at Brasenose College, Oxford (pictured), where he published the most commonly cited edition of Seneca the Younger's Letters. The central academic achievement of his career was his monograph The Medieval Tradition of Seneca's Letters (1965), in which he reconstructed how the text was transmitted through the Middle Ages. He also wrote critical editions of Seneca's Dialogues, the works of the historian Sallust, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. In 1968, Reynolds and his Oxford colleague Nigel Wilson co-authored a well-received introduction to textual criticism. Writing about the set of critical editions authored by Reynolds, the Latinist Michael Reeve stated that Reynolds's scholarship "cut through dozens of manuscripts to the serviceable core". When published, his work on Seneca was considered by some commentators to be difficult to surpass. (Full article...)

Detail from the Bourbaki Panorama showing French soldiers piling arms

• ... that the 115-metre-long (377-foot) Bourbaki Panorama (detail pictured) depicts the internment of 88,000 French soldiers in neutral Switzerland at the end of the Franco-Prussian War?
• ... that Ernie Ross, the Member of Parliament for Dundee West, was nicknamed "the MP for Nablus West" due to his support of Palestinian nationalism?
• ... that the 1979 German song "Selig seid ihr, wenn ihr einfach lebt" offers eight beatitudes which include a blessing for living simply, and another for daring to be kind?
• ... that Myrtle Edwards's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her?
• ... that the protagonist of the novel Long Live the Post Horn! campaigns against a real European Union Directive?
• ... that the paddle steamer Keystone State was rumored to be carrying gold when she sank?
• ... that Khin Maung Lat, a servant at the king's palace in Ratnagiri, India, eloped with Princess Myat Phaya Lat against the will of the king and queen?
• ... that in 2017, the Hudson Theatre was both the newest Broadway theater and one of the oldest?

SpaceX Crew-3 launch

• SpaceX launches (pictured) four astronauts on the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station.
• Former South African president F. W. de Klerk, who negotiated the end of apartheid with Nelson Mandela, dies at the age of 85.
• In stock car racing, Kyle Larson wins the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
• Kenyans Albert Korir and Peres Jepchirchir win the New York City Marathon men's and women's races.

November 15

Buran

• 565 – Justin II became Byzantine emperor, having allegedly been chosen by his uncle Justinian I as his successor on his deathbed.
• 1889 – Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, while the country was proclaimed a republic.
• 1922 – Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
• 1988 – The Soviet Buran spacecraft (pictured), a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.