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October 17
Daily Favorites
Sound
Say Nothing is an American horror-comedy film starring John Cusack and Emily Blunt.
Project Darkwhistle (also Project Darkwhistle, DARK WHISTLE, etc.) is an orbital wind tunnel.
Tintinitus is the perception of Tintin when no actual external Tintin is present.
Are You Sure ...
• ... that President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned the U.S. about the "military–industrial complex" in his farewell address?
• ... that the East German secret police developed Zersetzung, a set of psychological techniques intended to secretly destroy a victim's self-confidence, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships?
• ... that three nuclear bombs were damaged in the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash in Spain, releasing plutonium over a 2-square-kilometer area, while a fourth bomb was recovered intact from the Mediterranean Sea?
On This Day in Nonfiction
1492: Mathematician Adam Ries born (uncertain). He will write textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.
1903: The short film Electrocuting an Elephant is released. It documents the deliberate execution of an elephant named Topsy.
1961: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex."
1966: Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
Better Than News
I Am Curious (Texas) is a 1967 Swedish erotic geography film.
Martian Twin-Peaks is an American science mystery-horror drama television series created by David Lynch, based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick.
Arrakis Drive is an epic surrealist neo-noir space opera mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, Francesca Annis, Justin Theroux, and Laura Harring.
The Shining 2: Return to Antarctica is a science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and Stanley Kubrick, starring Kurt Russell and Jack Nicholson.
Pulp Dumbo is a fantasy period crime adventure film directed by Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, and Michael Keaton.
The Dark Scot is a 2008 superhero philosophy film starring Tom Hardy and Antony Flew.
