We revisit an old question of Knaster by demonstrating that each non-degenerate plane hereditarily unicoherent continuum X contains a proper, non-degenerate subcontinuum which does not separate X.
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D. Daniel; C. Islas; R. Leonel; E. D. Tymchatyn. Non-separating subcontinua of planar continua. Colloquium Mathematicae, Tome 139 (2015) pp. 143-148. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm141-1-12/