November 14

Better Than News

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  Funny Girl of Arabia is a British-American epic historical biographical comedy-drama film starring Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, and Walter Pigeon.

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  Charley Third-Eye is an American science fiction revisionist Western film starring Richard Roundtree and Roy Thinnes.

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  The Bandage is a Canadian-American rock band and paramedic group best known for song "Up on Cripple Creek", which they wrote after saving everyone aboard "Old Dixie", a derailed train.

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  Go Ask Alice Blue is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a color addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive pigmentation.

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  Ezekiel Rider is a 1969 American independent Old Testament road drama film loosely based on the life of the prophet Ezeziel. Shown here: adaptation in Adventure magazine.

Are You Sure

... that physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.

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  1971: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann dies. She contributed to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups.

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  1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.

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  2011: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer dies. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

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  2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.

Topic of the Day

John Lennon

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  "I'm Only Reuben" is a song by the rock band and catering firm [REDACTED].

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  "Insidious Karma" is an alleged lost song by John Lennon.

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  "Imagine There's No Satan" is an alleged lost song by John Lennon.