Today is Thursday, Nov. 20, the 325th day of 2008 with 41 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Saturn and Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Venus, Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus.


Left: On November 20th, 1917, the Battle of Cambrai in World War I began.

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