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Phil Hale, the book's cover artist
The Halo Graphic Novel is a graphic novel anthology published by Marvel Comics in partnership with Bungie, set in the universe of the science-fiction franchise Halo. Released on July 19, 2006, it was the series's first entry into the medium of sequential art. The cover art for the book was drawn by Phil Hale (pictured). The majority of the book is divided into four short stories by different writers and artists from the computer game and comic industries. Each story focuses on different aspects of the Halo universe, revealing stories that are tangential to the main plot of the game. The book also contains an extensive art gallery compiled of contributions from Bungie, Marvel and independent sources. The Halo Graphic Novel was well received, with reviewers noting the cohesiveness of the work as a whole, as well as the diversity of the individual material. The success of the book led to Marvel announcing a new limited comic series, Halo: Uprising, and other future Halo comic books. (Full article...)
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Garfield Sobers in 1956
- Barbadian cricketer Garfield Sobers (pictured) dies at the age of 89.
- A fire at a pub in Bangkok, Thailand, kills at least 33 people.
- In tennis, the Wimbledon Championships conclude with Linda Nosková and Jannik Sinner winning the women's and men's singles, respectively.
- Former emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies at the age of 74.
- China's orbital rocket booster Long March 10B becomes the first recovered after launch using a net-based recovery system.
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Detail from The Day the Earth Smiled, with Earth as a pale dot between Saturn's rings
- 1845 – A fire in Manhattan, New York City, destroyed 345 buildings, killed 30 people, and caused at least $5 million in damage.
- 1903 – French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
- 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War, English ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall.
- 1976 – Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry.
- 2013 – The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
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Bile Beans were a widely advertised patent medicine first marketed in Australia in 1897 before production moved to Leeds, England. Promoted as a remedy for ailments ranging from indigestion to headaches, they were claimed to derive from a secret vegetable known only to Aboriginal Australians and researched by the scientist Charles Forde. In reality, "Charles Forde" was the pseudonym of the entrepreneur Charles Fulford, and the supposed discovery was entirely fictitious. In 1906, Scottish judges ruled that the company's business was founded on fraud, yet Bile Beans remained commercially successful and continued to be sold until the 1980s. This paper bag advertising Bile Beans probably dates from around the 1930s, and is part of the collection of ephemera at Wellcome Collection in London. Design credit: unknown artist
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