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Featured article Jacket from The Birds The Birds is the fifth collection by Alexander McQueen for his fashion house. It was inspired by ornithology and the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds. The collection centred around sharply tailored garments and emphasised female sexuality. The runway show was staged on 9 October 1994 and the venue was a warehouse in the London district of King's Cross. The Birds was styled with imagery of violence and death; some models were covered in tyre tracks and others wore white contact lenses. Reception was generally positive, although the styling drew accusations of misogyny. The show's success allowed McQueen to secure the financial backing to stage his next show, Highland Rape. Garments from The Birds appeared in both stagings of the retrospective exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. Seán McGirr heavily referenced The Birds for Autumn/Winter 2024, his debut collection as creative director for the Alexander McQueen brand. (Full article...) Recently featured: Tony Hawk's Underground Thunderbirds Markham's storm petrel Zimmerman Telegram Zimmerman Telegram On February 24, .. 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1803 - Marbury v. Madison established judicial review in the U.S. 1917 - The Zimmermann Telegram was delivered, complicating World War I. 1999 - Arizona executed German national Karl LaGrand. Recent days: February 23 - February 22 More events in history... Did you know ...? Farnese Artemis in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples ... that while the objects on the Farnese Artemis (pictured) had initially been identified as female breasts, the museum housing the statue now describes them as bull scrotums? ... that in the history of fisheries in the Philippines, the once-dominant local municipal fisheries were supplanted first by commercial fisheries, and then by aquaculture? ... that Eliza Legzdina has attributed opinions of her work to the "horrification of the female body"? ... that the center squeeze has been blamed for costing Gary Johnson the 2016 US presidential election? ... that voice actress Atsuko Tanaka named several pandas? ... that seven people died when their helicopter struck supporting wires of a Texas TV station's tower and crashed? ... that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College? ... that Jer Lau, who appeared in the film Over My Dead Body, also performed its theme song because the director felt his role was too minor? ... that the search for mammals on Booby Island was a bust?	In the news John Hopfield (left) and Geoffrey Hinton John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton (both pictured) receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks. A gang attack on the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé leaves seventy people dead and fifty others injured. More than twenty people die in flooding and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A school bus crash and fire in Pathum Thani, Thailand, kills twenty-two school children and three teachers. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Johan Neeskens Christopher Ciccone Humberto Ortega Gavin Creel Rohan de Saram Stoika Milanova Holidays {{Holidays}} Obituaries Italian cyclist Marco Pantani died suddenly at a hotel in Rimini, Italy on February 14. Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion on February 13. Former leader of the Canadian liberal party, Claude Ryan, died from stomach cancer on February 9 at age 79. More recent deaths...
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