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Edward the Black Prince

The Black Prince's chevauchée was a large-scale mounted raid carried out by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward, the Black Prince (depiction shown), between 5 October and 2 December 1355 during the Hundred Years' War. John, Count of Armagnac, who commanded the local French forces, avoided battle, and there was little fighting during the campaign. The Anglo-Gascon force of 4,000–6,000 men marched from Bordeaux in English-held Gascony 300 miles (480 km) to Narbonne and back to Gascony, devastating a wide swathe of French territory and sacking many French towns on the way. During the four months following Christmas, more than 50 French-held towns or fortifications were captured. In August 1356 the Black Prince headed north on another chevauchée with 6,000 men; he was intercepted by the main French army, 11,000 strong, at Poitiers, where he decisively defeated them and captured King John II. (Full article...)

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Front view of Rye station

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... that Adaora Adimora, an American professor who studies sexually transmitted infections among minorities, was named one of the top 100 African American leaders by The Root in 2009?
... that WXGM AM dropped its coverage of William & Mary Tribe athletics in favor of the smaller Christopher Newport University, since CNU offered to pay for the rights?
... that Pan Wen-Yuan is known as the "father" of the integrated circuit industry in Taiwan despite having never studied, worked for pay, or settled there?

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In stock car racing, the NASCAR Cup Series concludes, with Kyle Busch (pictured) winning the drivers' championship.
Amid protests against fuel rationing and price hikes in Iran, dozens of protesters are killed and the government restricts access to the internet.
Cyclone Bulbul hits the Indian and Bangladeshi coasts of the Bay of Bengal, killing 38 people.
After weeks of protests over alleged electoral fraud, Bolivian president Evo Morales and other high-ranking politicians are forced to resign, and opposition senator Jeanine Áñez becomes interim president.

On this day

November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)

The Capitulation of Granada by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, 1882

1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada (surrender depicted) between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
1936 – Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing that, if the Soviet Union attacked one of them, they would consult each other on what measures to take to "safeguard their common interests".
1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.

Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609) · Thomas A. Hendricks (d. 1885) · Charles Kennedy (b. 1959)

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US Highway 25 in 1941

The US Highways in Michigan are the segments of the national United States Numbered Highway System that are owned and maintained by the state of Michigan, totaling about 2,300 miles (3,701 km). The longest of these is US Highway 23, at around 362 miles (583 km). The original highways were approved on November 11, 1926, by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, including 14 mainline highways. A handful of these original highway designations no longer run within Michigan, and a few numbers have been added since the 1930s. Since 1999, there have been 13 mainline highways and, with the creation of a business route for Constantine, there are a total of 30 special routes in the state. Several highways have been converted to freeways, some of which are now Interstate Highways and no longer part of the US Highway System. (Full list...)

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A. Hamid Arief (25 November 1924 – 20 December 1992) was an Indonesian actor who appeared in over 120 films. He started his acting career in live theatre before migrating to film in 1948, and gaining widespread recognition in 1953 with his first starring role. He is seen here in a promotional still taken around 1960. He was a prolific performer, appearing in over sixty films in the 1970s and taking part in a number of television series.

Photograph credit: Tati Photo Studio; restored by Chris Woodrich

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