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Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 British romance film directed by Joe Wright, based on Jane Austen's novel of the same name. The film depicts five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality and misconceptions. Keira Knightley (pictured) stars as Elizabeth Bennet, while Matthew Macfadyen plays her romantic interest Mr. Darcy. The film avoided depicting a "perfectly clean Regency world", presenting instead a "muddy hem version" of the time. It was marketed to a younger, mainstream audience; promotional items noted that it came from the producers of 2001 romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary before acknowledging its provenance as an Austen novel. Pride & Prejudice earned a worldwide gross of approximately $121 million, which was considered a commercial success. It earned a rating of 82 percent from review aggregator Metacritic, labelling it universally acclaimed. The film earned four nominations at the 78th Academy Awards, including one for Knightley as Best Actress. Pride & Prejudice has failed to match the cultural impact of the British 1995 television series, though Knightley has become associated with her character among younger viewers. (Full article...)

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• ... that in November 2003, Prince Charles visited the restored Nakhal Fort (pictured) during an official visit to Oman?
• ... that for the first time in 20 years, the Portland Pirates will not be playing in Portland for their 2013–14 season?
• ... that an airplane formerly owned by Hermann Göring was used to transport delegates to the founding congress of the African Democratic Rally?
• ... that Ryszard Siwiec, protesting the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, was the first political protester to commit suicide by self-immolation in Central and Eastern Europe?
• ... that William Blake's character Spectre, which represents unchanging reason in his spiritual mythology, may have been inspired by the poet William Cowper?
• ... that the directors of Chipotle Mexican Grill's short film The Scarecrow took inspiration from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Metropolis?

• The U.S. federal government shuts down non-essential services after it is unable to pass a budget measure.
• Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich (pictured) of Kenya wins the Berlin Marathon in a world record time of 2:03:23.
• Over fifty students are massacred by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.
• Dozens of people are killed in protests against a fuel price hike in Sudan.
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes the first part of its Fifth Assessment Report.

October 2: International Day of Non-Violence; Gandhi Jayanti in India

• 1263 – Scottish–Norwegian War: The armies of Norway and Scotland fought at the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire.
• 1835 – Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas, encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
• 1925 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (bust pictured) successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image.
• 1941 – World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive against Moscow, starting the three-month long Battle of Moscow.
• 1996 – A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the static ports of the aircraft caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, due to instrument failure.

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