"Confirmed Dead" is the second episode of the
fourth season and 74th episode overall of the drama television series Lost. It marks the first appearance of main characters
Miles Straume (played by
Ken Leung) and
Charlotte Lewis (
Rebecca Mader, pictured) and supporting character
Frank Lapidus (
Jeff Fahey). The actors were given fake scenes when auditioning to limit the leak of
spoilers and each actor influenced their character's development. Mader's and Fahey's appearances were different from the writers' original visions of Charlotte and Frank—the writers changed the characters to suit them. The narrative begins 91 days after the crash of
Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 on a tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. Flashbacks introduce four people from an offshore freighter who land on the island. The episode, which first aired in America and Canada on February 7, 2008, was written by
Drew Goddard and
Brian K. Vaughan and directed by
Stephen Williams. It was watched by seventeen million Americans and received generally positive critical reception as reviewers praised the introduction of the new characters. (
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... that the founder of the Dami Mission church predicted the world would end on October 28, 1992, but used donations from his followers to purchase
bonds that did not mature until after that date?
2009 – A series of 400 individual
bushfires ignited across the
Australian state of
Victoria on Black Saturday, eventually resulting in 173 total deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in Australia.
The Himalayan Bluetail (Tarsiger rufilatus) is a small
passerine bird. Males are of a more vibrant colour than females. This male specimen was photographed at the summit of
Doi Inthanon in Thailand.
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