Weatherday: Bounty on a writer

Leaf in the Valley (2022).

Mostly dry, with sunny spells. Highest temperatures 7deg in fresh winds from the northwest, moderating in the afternoon.

On this day in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie, for alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses.

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