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Today's featured article for March 27, 2025
The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel and tenth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. First published on 16 April 1962, it is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as the only Bond novel told in the first person. Its narrator is a young Canadian woman, Viv Michel. Bond does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book, arriving at precisely the right moment to save Viv from being raped and murdered. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving the character Viv credit as a co-author. The story uses a recurring motif of Saint George against the dragon, and contains themes of power and the moral ambiguity between those acting with good and evil intent. The reviews were largely negative, with some expressing a desire for a return to the structure and form of the previous Bond novels. Fleming attempted to suppress elements of the book: he blocked a paperback edition and only permitted Eon Productions to use the book's title but not its plot. (This article* is part of a featured topic: Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and short stories.)* Archive By email More featured articles About view – talk – edit – history – watch
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1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

An earthquake that inflict a massive damage to an entire city, and an aircrash that kills 583 people, and you call it Good Friday Earthquake and probably also Good Friday Tenerife disaster? How cruel can one be! You should be there when it happened, LOL.

2012 notes

New articles (unused): Goliad massacre; 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing
Omitted: Cincinnati riots of 1884; Nikita Khrushchev; Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System; 1981 warning strike in Poland; Situ Gintung
Included: Typhoid Mary (first appearance); Tenerife airport disaster (6th appearance, last in 2010); Silver Thursday (first appearance); Sildenafil (3rd appearance, last in 2010)

—howcheng {chat} 09:11, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum: 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing (first appearance) added later for balance. —howcheng {chat} 16:14, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Added and deleted: Grey's Anatomy (not significant enough to appear)
New articles (unused): San Diego; Washington Metro
Omitted: Armed Forces Day in Burma (ineligible—maintenance); Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham; Typhoid Mary; Tenerife airport disaster; Silver Thursday; Sildenafil; 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing
Included: Goliad massacre (first appearance); Battle of Marilao River (first appearance); Nikita Khrushchev (6th appearance, last in 2011); Passover massacre (5th appearance, last in 2010); Situ Gintung (2nd appearance, last in 2011)

—howcheng {chat} 06:27, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Khrushchev became President following Nikolai Bulganin. Stalin had died five years previously!.--Smerus (talk) 05:25, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, it's been like that since 2008 and nobody noticed. Thanks for catching that. —howcheng {chat} 05:58, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Omitted: Goliad massacre; Battle of Marilao River; Nikita Khrushchev
Included: Meister Eckhart (first appearance); San Diego (first appearance); 1981 warning strike in Poland (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Jiang Zemin (2nd appearance, last in 2004; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (5th consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:57, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Deleted: Aelia Eudoxia (moved to April 27)
New articles (unused): Yugoslav coup d'état
Omitted: San Diego; 1981 warning strike in Poland; Jiang Zemin
Included: Typhoid Mary (2nd appearance, last in 2012; rescued from Ineligible; 100th anniversary); Operation Starvation (first appearance; 70th anniversary); Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 40th anniversary)
Repeats: Meister Eckhart (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (6th consecutive appearance, 6 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:25, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham; Typhoid Mary; Operation Starvation; Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
Included: Naval Act of 1794/Original six frigates of the United States Navy (Act: first appearance; Frigates: 2nd appearance, last in 2010); Yugoslav coup d'état (first appearance; 75th anniversary); Washington Metro (first appearance; 40th anniversary); Situ Gintung (3rd appearance, last in 2013)
Repeats: Meister Eckhart (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 11:18, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): 1964 Alaska earthquake
Omitted: Meister Eckhart; Naval Act of 1794/Original six frigates of the United States Navy; Yugoslav coup d'état; Washington Metro; Situ Gintung
Included: Goliad massacre (2nd appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); Cincinnati riots of 1884 (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Nikita Khrushchev (7th appearance, last in 2013); Tenerife airport disaster (7th appearance, last in 2012; 40th anniversary); 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Domenico Lalli (first appearance); Simon Bradstreet (first appearance); Julia Alvarez (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 07:22, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Meister Eckhart (maintenance); Jiang Zemin (maintenance)
New articles (unused): 1999 F-117A shootdown
Omitted: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (ineligible—maintenance); Cincinnati riots of 1884; Tenerife airport disaster; 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing; Domenico Lalli; Simon Bradstreet; Julia Alvarez
Included: San Diego (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Battle of Marilao River (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Yugoslav coup d'état (2nd appearance, last in 2016); Sildenafil (4th appearance, last in 2012; 20th anniversary); Rosa Campbell Praed (first appearance); Kick Kelly (first appearance); Mariah Carey (first appearance)
Repeats: Nikita Khrushchev (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total; 60th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 05:29, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

New articles (unused): Sigismund Báthory
Omitted: San Diego; Yugoslav coup d'état; Nikita Khrushchev; Sildenafil; Rosa Campbell Praed; Kick Kelly; Mariah Carey
Included: Original six frigates of the United States Navy (3rd appearance, last in 2016); 1981 warning strike in Poland (3rd appearance, last in 2014); 1999 F-117A shootdown (first appearance; 20th anniversary); Situ Gintung (4th appearance, last in 2016; 10th anniversary); Jane Colden; (first appearance) Jan van Beers (artist) (first appearance); Elisheva Bikhovski (first appearance)
Repeats: Battle of Marilao River (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:09, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Moved to Ineligible: 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing (maintenance)
Omitted: Original six frigates of the United States Navy; Battle of Marilao River; 1981 warning strike in Poland; 1999 F-117A shootdown; Situ Gintung; Jane Colden; Jan van Beers (artist); Elisheva Bikhovski
Included: Cincinnati riots of 1884 (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Yugoslav coup d'état (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Operation Starvation (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Nikita Khrushchev (9th appearance, last in 2018); Silver Thursday (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 40th anniversary); Sigismund Báthory (first appearance); Virginia Minor (first appearance); Michael Joseph Savage (first appearance; 80th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 17:30, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Omitted: Cincinnati riots of 1884; Operation Starvation; Nikita Khrushchev; Silver Thursday; Sigismund Báthory; Virginia Minor; Michael Joseph Savage
Included: Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (first appearance); Goliad massacre (2nd appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); 1981 warning strike in Poland (4th appearance, last in 2019; 40th anniversary); Passover massacre (6th appearance, last in 2013); Domenico Lalli (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Alexander Vostokov (first appearance); Mother Angelica (first appearance)
Repeats: Yugoslav coup d'état (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 80th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 21:52, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

Omitted: Goliad massacre; Yugoslav coup d'état; 1981 warning strike in Poland; Domenico Lalli; Alexander Vostokov; Mother Angelica
Included: 1638 Calabrian earthquakes (first appearance); San Diego (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Mary Mallon (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Tenerife airport disaster (8th appearance, last in 2017); Simon Bradstreet (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 325th anniversary); Thomas Graham Brown (first appearance); T. Sailo (first appearance)
Repeats: Passover massacre (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total; 20th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 16:14, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]