March 25
Better Than News
Lawrence of Zhivago is an epic biographical adventure romance film directed by David Lean, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Peter O'Toole.
Road House Kane is an epic American action-drama film directed by Rowdy Herrington and Orson Welles, starring Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, and Dorothy Comingore.
Fresh Squeeze is a lost album by the English rock band Squeeze.
Ace Bellboy, The Nutty Detective is a comedy film starring Jerry Lewis and Jim Carrey.
The Man Who Fell to Ergonomics is a science fiction management training film about the importance of ergonomic design in the workplace.
Psycho: Rise of the Psychologists is an American psychological horror film starring Janet Leigh and Jordan Peterson.
The beer can-can dance is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular beer-hall dance in the 1940s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day.
Sting Bellboy, the Ace Face is a comedy historical drama musical film starring Sting and Jim Carrey.
Beyond Plausible
Lyzenko is a science fiction horror film about a deranged wizard (Trofim Lysenko) who raises an army of undead Russian soldiers for an aging warlord (Vladimir Putin).
The Unidentified Man is a science fiction crime noir film starring Glenn Ford and Barbara Rush.
In Other Words
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Obligate Sexual Parasitism is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
Are You Sure
• ... that in 1857, printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville received a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image?
• ... that mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne founded the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations?
Topic of the Day
Animals
Cretaceous Office Supplies is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic). Now offering "It's Nearly K–Pg Boundary Time!" rush delivery within a half-million years — Guaranteed.
The 1508 Council of Rats holds Arithmetica for ransom. See APTO Math Crimes Unit War Diary (11 March 2021).
Monumental Barkitecture is a canine modern dance company famed for their imitations of monuments, ziggurats, and other large-scale sculptural works.
CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
"We Three Frogs" is a popular Christmas song about Oophaga histrionica, the Harlequin Frog, also known as the Harlequin Magi Poison-Dart Frog, legendary for attending the Adoration with gifts of gold, frankincense, and tadpole eggs.
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