June 18

Better Than News

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  Elephant's Eleven is an American crime drama film about a mysterious masked man (John Hurt) who compels eleven strangers to rob casinos.

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  Jeffgoldblum Park is a 1993 American science fiction revisionist autobiographical film by Jeff Goldblum about his efforts to escape the film industry.

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  Goodbye, Mr. Pibb is a 1969 soft drink comedy film starring Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, and Dr. Pepper.

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  "Some Kind of Renewable" is a song by Grand Funk Railroad and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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  The Chronicles of Regular is a 2004 American science fiction action film which follows the adventures of rogue petroleum engineer Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) as he attempts to elude capture after the events depicted in the 2000 film Sweet Crude.

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  Hunger Games: Rise of the Citrus is a dystopian science fiction foodie film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson.

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  The Elements of Sanction is a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker, in collaboration with William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White.

Are You Sure

... that statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett contributed to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis?

... that the Andromeda Galaxy robbery was a coordinated attack upon the Andromeda Galaxy. The robbery was committed by parties as yet [18 June 2024] unidentified criminal organization using hijacked laser guide stars?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

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  1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

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  1910: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born. Bartlett will make contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis.

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  1922: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.

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  1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

Topic of the Day

France

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  Parkour for Liberty is a transdimensional parkour competition held annually in 1884 Paris.