"The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" is the second episode of the
seventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Originally airing November 14, 1999, on the
Fox network, it was directed by
Michael Watkins and written by series creator
Chris Carter and lead actor
David Duchovny, who plays
Fox Mulder.
Mimi Rogers(pictured) guest-starred in her last appearance in the series. The X-Files centers on
Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents Mulder and
Dana Scully (
Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Scully returns from Africa to discover Mulder in a coma induced by exposure to shards from an alien spaceship wreck. After Mulder awakens from his coma, he realizes his duty to prevent alien colonization. Carter explored themes of extraterrestrial involvement in ancient mass extinctions in this episode, the third in a trilogy focused on Mulder's severe reaction to an alien artifact. Initial reviews were mixed, but later critics viewed the episode in a more positive light and several writers named it among the show's best. (
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... that the 1257 eruption of Samalas(caldera pictured) was one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene, and may have triggered the
Little Ice Age and famines in Europe?
Our English Coasts is an oil-on-canvas painting completed by the British
Pre-Raphaelite painter
William Holman Hunt in 1852. The painting was commissioned by Charles Theobald Maud and depicts a flock of sheep on the coast of
Sussex, at a scenic location on the cliffs at
Fairlight Glen. In 1946 Our English Coasts was acquired by the
Tate Gallery through the
Art Fund.
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