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Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time is Ernest Hemingway's first American collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright. Its title is derived from "Give peace in our time, O Lord" from the English Book of Common Prayer. Hemingway first used the title for a collection of six nonfiction vignettes of 75 to 187 words, commissioned by Ezra Pound for The Little Review. He added 12 more vignettes for in our time (with lower-case title), published in 1924 in Paris, about matadors, the Battle of Mons, the Greco-Turkish War and the execution of six Greek cabinet ministers. The 1925 New York collection combined these and fourteen newly written short stories, including "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River", two of his best-known Nick Adams stories. He added "On the Quai at Smyrna" for the 1930 edition. The collection resonates with themes of alienation, loss, grief and separation, and includes descriptions of war, bullfighting and current events. It is the earliest Hemingway work to employ his iceberg theory of writing, in which the underlying meaning is hinted at, rather than explicitly stated. The volume attracted attention from reviewers and is an important work in his canon. (Full article...).

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Women's March, Washington, DC

Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March (pictured) protesting Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States.
Following armed intervention by the ECOWAS alliance, Yahya Jammeh steps down as President of the Gambia and goes into exile, ending the Gambian constitutional crisis.
At least twenty firefighters are killed and more than seventy people are injured when Tehran's Plasco Building collapses due to a high-rise fire.
Four earthquakes in the Abruzzo region of Italy result in an avalanche, leaving at least seven people dead and more than twenty others missing.
A suicide bombing at a military camp near Gao, Mali, kills at least seventy-seven people.

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January 24

Sutter's Mill (reconstruction)

41 – Cassius Chaerea and the disgruntled Praetorian Guards murdered Roman emperor Caligula, replacing him with his uncle Claudius.
1458 – The 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus was unanimously proclaimed King of Hungary after the Estates were persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California Gold Rush.
1978 – The Soviet nuclear powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.
2011 – A suicide bomber killed 37 people at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow.

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Hydnellum ferrugineum is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. The fungus fruits on the ground singly or in clusters in conifer forest, usually in poor or sandy soil. Fruit bodies are somewhat top-shaped, measuring 3–10 cm (1–4 in) in diameter.

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