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Today's featured article The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel and tenth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. First published on 16 April 1962, it is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as the only Bond novel told in the first person. Its narrator is a young Canadian woman, Viv Michel. Bond does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book, arriving at precisely the right moment to save Viv from being raped and murdered. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving the character Viv credit as a co-author. The story uses a recurring motif of Saint George against the dragon, and contains themes of power and the moral ambiguity between those acting with good and evil intent. The reviews were largely negative, with some expressing a desire for a return to the structure and form of the previous Bond novels. Fleming attempted to suppress elements of the book: he blocked a paperback edition and permitted Eon Productions to use only the book's title but not its plot. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and short stories.) Recently featured: Pierre Boulez Flotilla (video game) Gertie the Dinosaur On this day... March 27: Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (1918) Ball-and-stick model of sildenafil 1884 – Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting. 1899 – Philippine–American War: American forces defeated troops commanded by Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo at the Battle of Marilao River. 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil (chemical structure pictured), better known by the trade name Viagra, as the first treatment approved in the United States for erectile dysfunction. 1999 – NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: A U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft was shot down by a Yugoslav Army unit. 2020 – North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Jonathan Jennings (b. 1784) Doug Wilkerson (b. 1947) Elisheva Bikhovski (d. 1949) T. Sailo (d. 2015) More anniversaries: March 26 March 27 March 28

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