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Today's featured article Scene from the play's opening run The Importance of Being Earnest is a drawing-room comedy by Oscar Wilde. Premiered on 14 February 1895 in London, it depicts the affairs of two young men about town who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name Ernest to woo two young women. Other characters include the formidable Lady Bracknell, the fussy governess Miss Prism and the benign and scholarly Canon Chasuble. The play, celebrated for its wit and repartee, parodies contemporary dramatic norms and comically satirises late-Victorian manners. The triumphant opening night was followed within weeks by Wilde's downfall and imprisonment for homosexual acts and the closure of the production, and Wilde wrote no more comic or dramatic works. From the early 20th century onwards, the play has been revived frequently and adapted for radio, television, film, operas and musicals. (Full article...) Recently featured: Sydney Newman Weise's law MLS Cup 1999 On this day... November 24: Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism) Hibiscus Rising 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces captured about 1,200 Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss. 1859 – British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day. 1976 – A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of buildings in the region and causing at least 4,000 casualties. 2009 – The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania. 2023 – Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a sculpture commemorating the life of David Oluwale, was unveiled in Leeds. Zachary Taylor (b. 1784) Eileen Barton (b. 1924) Tarō Yamamoto (b. 1974) Goo Hara (d. 2019) More anniversaries: November 23 November 24 November 25

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