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The Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction). Fresh content daily.
November 17

Better Than News

Sandfall is a science fiction spy film starring Daniel Craig as a British MI6 agent who must discover the source of Melange, a drug which facilitates interstellar travel.
Hellraiser: Adventure Time is a fantasy horror animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and Clive Barker.
The Man Who Shot Cat Ballou is an American neo-Western thriller film starring Jane Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, and Lee Marvin.
Mister Peanut Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Southern agricultural policy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Blade Wobegon is a 1982 American science fiction musical film about a police officer (Harrison Ford) who must find and kill a rogue android (Garrison Keillor).
Salmon Fishing on Tatooine is a 2011 British romantic science fiction drama film about a Jedi fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) who is recruited by an Imperial consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize the Emperor's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Tatooine desert.

Beyond Plausible

Cocaine Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action film starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Xena: Ring Princess is an American science fiction television series about Xena (Lucy Lawless), an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent by using her formidable fighting skills to now help victims of a lethal supernatural videotape.
"Database Database" is an English language computer science nursery rhyme.
Stinging Zelda is an action-caper game starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw.

In Other Words

The Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp is a well-known misprint featuring actor Nicolas Cage with an octopus. The misprint apparently resulted from Cage getting into character "above and beyond the call of Euclidean space-time" during an unexplained off-camera encounter with an octopus.
Can This Regex Be Saved? is a reality television program which challenges participants to save troubled regular expressions from self-destruction.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter (5 February 1915 – 17 November 1990) shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons"?

Selected Anniversaries

1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1776: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson dies.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born. A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".

Topic of the Day

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift Vineyards is a winery and Dionysery located in the 1667 to 1745 region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the county of Albemarle. It is among the 23 wineries located on the Prime Number Wine Trail.
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Veterans of the United States Armed Forces from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.
Black Satire is a 2021 action-satire film starring Jonathan Swift and François Rabelais.

Interview

INTERVIEW: "Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.

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-File:Janet Beta Salutes.jpg|link=Janet Beta|[[Janet Beta]]
-File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]''
-File:Leonardo_Draws_Clock_Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]''
-File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|[[Clock Head]]
-File:Pin Man number 1 cover art.jpg|link=Pin Man (nonfiction)|[[Pin Man (nonfiction)|Pin Man #1]]
-File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|[[Pin Man]]
-File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|[[Henrietta Bolt]]
-File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|[[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]
-File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]''
-File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|''Culvert Origenes and The Governess''
-File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|2017: [[The Custodian|The Custodian 2]]
-File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|[[The Custodian]]
-File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|''Skip Digits, Conductor''
-File:Dennis Paulson of Mars illustration.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|Dennis Paulson of Mars]]''
-File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]''
-File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]''
-File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|''The Safe-Cracker''
-File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]''
-File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]''
-File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]''
-File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|[[Alice Beta]]
-File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]''
-File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|[[Culvert Origenes]].
-File:Dave the Gamer.jpg|link=Dave the Gamer|[[Dave the Gamer]]
-File:Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge|[[Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge]]''
-File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|[[Asclepius Myrmidon]]
-File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|''[[Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery]]''
-File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|[[Baron Zersetzung]]
-File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|[[Egon Rhodomunde]]
-File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|[[Havelock]]
-File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|[[Skip Digits]]
-File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|[[Cantor Parabola]]
-File:Niles Cartouchian.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1800s)|[[Niles Cartouchian (1800s)]]
-File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|[[Wallace War-Heels]]
-File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|[[Radium Jane]]
-File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|[[Malady]]
-File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|[[Ultravore]]
-File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels]]''
-File:Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|''[[Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]''
-File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|Albert Einstein and Alice Beta [[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|develop new technology for predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants]]
-File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|Havelock and Nikola Tesla conduct [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|research into electrical field modulation and data transmission]]
-File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|[[Baron Zersetzung]] and [[The Eel]] fight in a gambling den
-File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|The Eel and Radium Jane [[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|engage in epic arm-wrestling match]] to determine outcome of wager
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+== Selected Anniversaries ==
-File:Rafael Volante.jpg|link=Rafael Volante|[[Rafael Volante]] (original character for the DC Comics universe)
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+== Interview ==
+'''INTERVIEW''': "[https://www.trillmag.com/entertainment/gnomon-chronicles-an-interview-with-the-man-who-makes-up-movies/ Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…]" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.
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