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Revision as of 05:50, 18 January 2023
Better Than News
Bill & Ted Light the Wick is an American science fiction crime film starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as a two legendary hitman who come out of retirement to finish their high school history report.
Apocalypse Dove is an epic Western war film starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Martin Sheen, and Marlon Brando.
Matrix in a Red Dress is a 2022 pornographic science fiction documentary film about the Matrix franchise. Narrated by Hugo Weaving.
The Cabin in the Matrix is a science fiction horror film about an amoral gourmand (Joe Pantoliano) who becomes trapped in a nightmarish world of simulated camping experiences.
Hawaii Starfleet is a science fiction police procedural television series set in Hawaii.
Star Wars: Home Alone is a 1977 science fiction drama film about moisture farmer Owen Lars (Macaulay Culkin) and his wife Beru (Catherine O'Hara) who are murdered by Imperial stormtroopers.
Beyond Plausible
A Day at the Stooges is a 1937 American comedy film, and the seventh film starring the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges.
All Our First Dates is a science fiction romantic thriller television series starring Leonard Nimoy and Mariette Hartley.
1959: The Ham Omelette breakfast cafe and Shakespearean playhouse opens in New Minneapolis, Canada.
Hope Diamond Floats is a 1998 American comedy heist romance film starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., and Gena Rowlands, and directed by Forest Whitaker.
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
532: The Nika riots fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead.
1802: Carl Friedrich Gauss read in the newspaper that Olbers had rediscovered Ceres. Gauss wrote to get the observations and a long friendship ensued. Gauss was such an avid newspaper reader that students nicknamed him the “newspaper bear” because of his habits in the library reading room. If someone was reading the paper he wanted he would sit glumly nearby and stare at them until they gave up the paper.
1825: Chemist Edward Frankland born. He will be one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
1873: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin dies. In 1826 created the earliest known choropleth map.
1878: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1908: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski born.
1911: Physicist Shoichi Sakata born. Sakata will contribute theoretical work on the structure of the atom, proposing the Sakata model, an early precursor to the quark model. After World War II he will campaign for the peaceful uses of nuclear power.
Topic of the Day
Birds
Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels (SOEP) is an interspecies organization of 13 stomach oil-exporting varieties of petrel. The 13 varieties of petrel account for 40 percent of global stomach oil and 73 percent of the world's "proven" stomach oil capability, making SOEP a major influence on global stomach oil prices.
Ducks: How to Make Them Pay is an ornithological handbook comprising tales of greed and vengeance among the Anatidae.