December 10

Better Than News

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  Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. It features Alfred Hitchcock giving gifts to his family, friends, and complete strangers.

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  Banging Miss Daisy is a 1989 American erotic comedy film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.

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  The Game-Players of Nixon is a 1963 biography of Richard Nixon by sociologist Philip K. Dick.

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  They Shoot Zombies, Don't They? is a 1969 American psychological horror film about a group of individuals desperate to escape a Depression-era zombie invasion and an opportunistic emcee who urges them on.

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  Anchor Management is a 2003 American buddy comedy film about a businessman (Sandler) who must work with an unconventional ship designer (Jack Nicholson).

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  Matrix of Steel is a 2013 American superhero science fiction film starring Henry Cavill and Keanu Reeves.

Beyond Plausible

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  Battle Racket is a 1996 war drama film by Wes Anderson, starring Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, and James Caan.

In Other Words

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  Soldier Knowledge, Carnal Blue is an American revisionist historical Western sexploitation film starring Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Art Garfunkel.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) invented symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine?

• ... that mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was the first Jewish mathematician to be appointed professor at a German university?

• ... that a musical electroplating ensemble is a musical group which uses electroplating technology to generate music; and that often the electroplated objects serve as a score for the work?

Topic of the Day

Ricardo Montalbán

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  "Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

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  The Man with the Golden Musket: James Bond must recover the Storax Toga Lei, a breakthrough fashion solution to contemporary aesthetic shortages, before criminally deranged fashion designer Canna Fracas Orgasmic raises hemlines to the waist.

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  Khan Heir is a 1997 American science fiction film about a prison break aboard a United Federation of Planets spacecraft masterminded by the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán).

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  Billionaire's Island is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event.