5. November

The crusaders spent a year and a half before Damietta, the port guarding the Nile’s eastern branch. When they walked in, disease and hunger had killed most of the people inside.

Hemu, a Hindu general who had taken Delhi and the title Vikramaditya, was winning until an arrow struck him in the eye. His army broke; Akbar’s regent Bairam Khan had him beheaded.

She and fourteen other women voted in the presidential election in Rochester. At her trial in 1873 the judge ordered the jury to find her guilty and fined her $100. I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. — Anthony She never did.

At dawn Seward and Morris see the Szgany with their leiter-wagon dashing from the river. Snow is falling lightly and he hears wolves in the distance: “We ride to death of some one. God alone knows who, or where, or what, or when, or how it may be....”

Having left Mina in a circle of the Host, Van Helsing goes alone to the castle, breaks its doors from their hinges and in the old chapel finds the tombs. He lays some of the Wafer in the great tomb marked DRACULA, “and so banished him from it, Un-Dead, for ever”, and then destroys the three women.…

“Let me be accurate in everything.” All yesterday Van Helsing and Mina travelled towards the mountains, ever wilder and more desolate, and Mina still sleeps and cannot be woken even for food. He fears “the fatal spell of the place was upon her, tainted as she is with that Vampire baptism”.

Crowds of students, reporters and society ladies filled the amphitheatre to hear the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. She came in, waited for the applause to die down, and began at the sentence where Pierre had stopped, without a word about him.

The Norwegian whaling captains warned that the ice had come unusually far north that season. Shackleton waited a month, took an extra deck-load of coal and extra clothing from the stations, and began to plan for wintering the ship in the ice.

About 8,000 troops of the Indian Army landed to take the port and were beaten by roughly a thousand of Lettow-Vorbeck’s men. Swarms of angry bees broke up both sides in the fighting, and the British left their weapons on the beach.

A day out, a stowaway was found in a locker: Perce Blackborow, a young Welsh sailor who had been turned down in Buenos Aires. Shackleton raged at him, then told him that if anyone had to be eaten he would be the first. He signed on as a steward.

With no inspectors allowed ashore, American ships and planes came alongside the eight departing freighters, whose crews pulled back the tarpaulins so the missiles on deck could be counted: 42, as the Soviets had said.

Built for about ₹450 crore, around 74 million dollars, less than the Hollywood film Gravity. Planned for six months, it worked for about seven and a half years.

Six years after its twin, and at about 119 times Earth’s distance from the Sun. Its plasma instrument, broken on Voyager 1, measured the crossing directly.