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1 Mystery surrounds Napier

stabbing

2 ‘Urgency' needed to head-off

water crisis

3 Big-box retail park chunk sells for

$21m

4 War memorial consultation draws

big crowd

5 HGHS pupil Lia Horsley eyes

national glory

Quiz

1 Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of individualism, published essays on self-reliance, love, heroism, character and manners in his collections of 1841 and 1844?

2 Who was the first black player to

captain England’s football team?

3 What type of plant is a cholla?

4 Tenzin Gyatso is better known by

which name?

5 How many Oscars did the 1959

film Ben Hur win?

Joke of the day

QWhy do we tell actors to break a leg?

Because every play has a cast

ABible quote

The kingdom of God is within you. — Luke 17:21

History

1850: Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners.

1851: The first edition of The New York Times was published.

975: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

2001: A week after the September 11 attack, President George W. Bush said he hoped to “rally the world” in the battle against terrorism and predicted that all “people who love freedom” would join. Letters postmarked Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax were sent to the New York Post and NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw.

2007: O.J. Simpson charged with seven felonies, including kidnapping, in the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas casinohotel room. (Simpson, sentenced to 9 to 33 years in prison, was paroled in October 2017.)

Birthdays

● US actor Eddie Jones is 84.

● Singer Frankie Avalon is 78.

● Singer Joanne Catherall (Human League) is 56.

● Former racing cyclist Lance Armstrong is 47.

● US actress Jada Pinkett Smith is

47.

● Brazilian football striker Ronaldo is 41.

Quiz Answers

1 Ralph Waldo Emerson 2 Paul Ince 3 Cactus 4 The Dalai Lama 5 Eleven

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