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Hastings railway station

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E. E. Holman design

• ... that E. E. Holman's gender was deliberately disguised to secure architectural contracts, like those for the National Park Seminary's Aloha Dormitory (pictured)?
• ... that the scaly-throated, the black-tailed, and the short-billed leaftosser flick aside dead leaves as they forage for small invertebrates?
• ... that Wendy Tan White, the CEO of Moonfruit, laid off her co-founder and future husband to save the company after the dot-com crash?
• ... that a letter by the Quaker minister Abiah Darby is used to determine the start of the Industrial Revolution?
• ... that Daniel 4 is the only chapter in the Book of Daniel that is in the form of a letter from King Nebuchadnezzar?
• .... that chemist and science diplomat Nancy B. Jackson was the first implementer of the U.S. State Department's Chemical Security Engagement Program?
• ... that the film The Creeping Garden shows slime molds finding their way through a maze in search of food?
• ... that
  MIT professor emeritus Mary-Lou Pardue
  once declined a PhD and convinced her department to give her a master's degree instead?

Alexander Lukashenko

• re-elected President of Belarus
  for a fifth term.
• At least 105 people are killed and more than 400 others injured in twin bombings at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey.
• The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Svetlana Alexievich is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in the field of DNA repair.

• Ongoing events:
  • Russian military intervention in Syria
  • Southeast Asian haze
  • European migrant crisis
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Richard F. Heck
  • Geoffrey Howe
  • Paul Prudhomme

October 13

Paddington Bear

• 54 – Claudius, the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy, died mysteriously, most likely by poison administered by his wife Agrippina.
• 1307 – Agents of King Philip IV of France launched a dawn raid, simultaneously arresting many members of the Knights Templar, and subsequently torturing them into "admitting" heresy.
• Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States
  .
• 1911 – Prince Arthur, a son of Queen Victoria, became the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent as well as the first Prince of Great Britain and Ireland to hold that position.
• 1958 – The first book featuring the English children's literature character Paddington Bear (statue pictured), created by Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum, was published.

• More anniversaries:
  • October 12
  • October 13
  • October 14