February 25
Better Than News
The Prisoner is a children's psychological drama television series hosted by Bob Keeshan and co-hosted by Patrick McGoohan.
Sit is a political horror film starring Clint Eastwood. It is loosely based on the lost short story "Trial Balloon" by Stephen King.
Avatar: The Last Air Horn is an American animated fantasy action television series about people who can telekinetically create painfully loud sounds inspired by air horns.
Drugstore Condom is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant.
Are You Sure
• ... that botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer discovered what would later be called liquid crystals, while experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate in the late 1880s, and that the discovery attracted attention, but that interest soon faded as no practical applications were found at the time?
• ... that Chef Ramsay makes a cameo appearance in the 2021 film Spice Runner?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1598: John Dee demonstrates the solar eclipse by viewing an image through a pinhole. Two versions from Ashmole and Aubrey give different details of who was present. Dee's Diary only contains the notation, "the eclips. A clowdy day, but great darkness about 9 1/2 maine".
1857: Botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer born. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time.
1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.
1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He discovered mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.
Topic of the Day
Snack Foods
Kit Kat String Cheese is a cheese and chocolate snack food.
Minty Fresh Potato Chips is a variety of potato chips distributed by Gnomon Chronicles Industries.
Chicxulub Chips is a brand of snack food, consisting primarily of tephra from the Chicxulub crater.