Wikipedia:Today's featured list/October 2013
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October 7
There have been 131 episodes of Ed, Edd n Eddy, an animated comedy television series created by Danny Antonucci and produced by Canada-based a.k.a. Cartoon. The series debuted on Cartoon Network in the United States on January 4, 1999, and ended on November 8, 2009, with the film Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show. The series was originally planned to air for four seasons, but Cartoon Network ordered two additional seasons and three holiday-themed specials as a result of its popularity. Reruns continue to air on Cartoon Network, including airing as part of the revived block Cartoon Planet. The first two seasons were released on DVD in 2006 and 2007. Two DVD volumes were also released: Edifying Ed-Ventures in 2005 and Fools' Par-Ed-Ise in 2006. The series has also been digitally distributed. The award-winning series garnered generally positive reviews, and remains the longest running original Cartoon Network series and Canadian-made animated series to date. (Full list...)
October 14
New Jersey was overseen by a succession of colonial governors in the 150 years prior to the American Revolution. James, Duke of York, divided New Jersey between George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, in 1664, to reward their support of the monarchy during the English Civil War and Interregnum. They sold their interests to two groups of proprietors who divided these holdings into two colonies—East Jersey and West Jersey. Remaining in England, these proprietors tended to administer the colony through deputies until the 1690s. The proprietors for East and West Jersey surrendered their political authority to the British Crown in 1702, and New Jersey was then unified as a crown colony under an appointed governor. At first, the colony shared its governor with the neighboring Province of New York (1702–38), and then had its own (1738–76). As tensions between colonists and the King rose to rebellion, the last royal governor, William Franklin (pictured), was deposed and arrested in June 1776 by order of the colony’s transitional government. (Full list...)
October 21
H.C. McNeile's writing career lasted from 1915 until his death in 1937. McNeile was a First World War British army officer with the Royal Engineers, who wrote several short stories while serving on the Western Front; these were published in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym "Sapper", the nickname of his regiment. After the war he turned away from war writing and began to publish thrillers. In 1920 he wrote the novel Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known character; he went on to write ten Drummond novels in total as well as three plays and a screenplay. McNeile interspersed his Drummond stories with other novels and story collections, including two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish. (Full list...)
October 28
It is rare for there to be snow in Florida. Snow rarely occurs because freezing temperatures in Florida are generally caused by the cold and dry winds of anticyclones. Frost is more common than snow, requiring temperatures of 45°F (7°C) or less at 2 metres (7 ft) above sea level, a cloudless sky, and a relative humidity of 65% or more. Generally, for snow to occur, the polar jet stream must move southward through Texas and into the Gulf of Mexico, with a stalled cold front across the southern portion of the state curving northeastward to combine freezing air into the frontal clouds. Much of the known information on snow in Florida prior to 1900 is from weather climatology provided by the Jacksonville National Weather Service; for this reason, information for other locations is sparse. The first white Christmas in Jacksonville's history resulted from a snowfall that occurred on December 23, 1989 (pictured). (Full list...)