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== Better Than News == | |||
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== Beyond Plausible == | |||
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== In Other Words == | |||
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== Are You Sure == | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:08, 19 February 2023
Better Than News
Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
Kray vs. Kray is a 1979 American legal crime drama film about two married criminal brothers who divorce, and the subsequent evolution of their relationship and views on criminal enterprises.
Goldfisher (1964): James Bond must stop aquaculture mogul Auric Goldfisher from stealing the United States Strategic Milt Reserve at Fort Knox.
Crocsodile Dundee (often styled Crocs-odile Dundee) is a 1986 Australian comedy footwear film starring Paul Hogan.
Nutcoin is a decentralized squirrel currency, without a central nut cache, that can be sent from squirrel to squirrel on the squirrel-to-squirrel Nutcoin network without the need for burying the nuts in the fall and digging them up during the winter.
Beyond Plausible
Budweiser 2049 is a science fiction comedy-action film about an android horse which hunts down and terminates rogue android horses.
Princess Bride 2: The Dark Bride is a 2008 superhero neo-noir fantasy crime film starring Cary Elwes, Heath Ledger, and Robin Wright.
Break Point is a 2021 tennis thriller film starring Keanu Reeves and Björn Borg.
F5 is an artificial beverage derived from illegal mathematical functions.
In Other Words
"Get It Bare" is an anagram of "Tiger Beat".
Patch Atoms is a 1998 American biographical comedy-drama documentary research project headed by theoretical physicist Robin Williams.
Octosarlacc is a 1983 science fiction spy film starring Roger Moore, Maude Adams, and Carrie Fisher.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered discovered the fact that that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism?
• ... that Eraserhead Nevsky is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch; that that the film depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky?
Topic of the Day
Sergei Eisenstein
Eraserhead Nevsky is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch. It depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky.
"Alexander's Nevsky Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911 and is often inaccurately cited as his first Russian-themed hit. Although not a traditional ragtime song, Berlin's jaunty melody nonetheless "anticipated Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 historical drama film Eraserhead Nevsky with uncanny accuracy".