November 26
Better Than News
You Can Count on Hulk is an American superhero drama film directed by Kenneth Lonergan and Joss Whedon, starring Mark Ruffalo, Laura Linney, Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson.
Mission: Impossible — Gnome Nation is a 2015 American fantasy spy film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and Rebecca Ferguson.
It Takes a Chief is an American soap opera buddy comedy television series starring Malachi Throne as Noah Bain, a U.S. government bureaucrat, and Robert Wagner as his willful subordinate.
Beach Party A-Go-Gaugin is a beach party art film starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, and Paul Gaugin.
Dial L for Lambada is a 1954 American crime thriller film about a former dance pro (Ray Milland) who wants to have his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly) murdered so he can get his hands on her choreography. When he discovers her dancing the lambada with another man (Robert Cummings), he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her.
Star Trek: The Wrath of Jada is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and based on "Demon Knight Seed" (1967), one of the Forbidden Episodes of the television series Star Trek.
Are You Sure
• ... that geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 – 20 February 1771) pioneered the study of biological circadian rhythms?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what
1901: American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
1918: Historian and cryptanalyst Francis Harry Hinsley born. Hinsley will work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and write widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.
Signed first edition of Fermentation stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad-daylight robbery by criminal mathematical generated by the Forbidden Ratio gang.
2011: The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
Topic of the Day
Wine
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.
Pee Noir It's not a wine. It's not a waste product. It's Pee Noir.™
Martin Mulled Wine is brand of mulled wine based on the flavor profile of actor Martin Mull.