April 9

Pink Orange Spiral 2.

Better Than News

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  Indiana Jones and the Wrath of God is a revisionist docudrama film about Indiana Jones' supposed participation in Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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  Three Days of the Savior is a 1975 epic religious political thriller film starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Willem Dafoe.

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  Mission: Impossible - Rogue Baldwin is an American spy horror comedy thriller film

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  The Left Hand of Dhalgren is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin.

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  Dracula on the Ceiling is a musical horror-comedy film starring Lionel Richie as a suave vampire.

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  The Lord of the Mood Rings is a 2001 epic comedy film about a jeweler (Sauron) who creates the One Mood Ring to judge the moods of Men, Dwarves, and Hippies.

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  "Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?" is a question which if you answer Yes you are probably a very confused unintentional time traveler under the influence of a fictional yet illegal drug such as Clandestiphrine.

Beyond Plausible

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  A Bodyguard of Lies is a 2023 nonfiction book about Britain's role in the Captain America program during the Second World War.

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  The Unstackables is an American comedy crime drama television series starring Robert Stack as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of an imaginary team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility.

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  Sister Ghost is an American comedy action romance fantasy film starring Whoopi Goldberg as a recently deceased murder victim whose ghost must hide out among nuns.

In Other Words

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  Bath Time for Books, Oh! is a short essay by Hiro Protagonist, winner of the 1992 World Bathing and Reading Trophy.

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  The Sleep of Reason Produces Memesters is a psychographic etching by the Spanish painter, printmaker, and alleged time-traveler Francisco Goya.

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck (9 April 1770 – 10 December 1831) discovered the thermoelectric effect, where a junction of dissimilar metals produces an electric current when exposed to a temperature gradient?

• ... that mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz (9 April 1865 – 26 October 1923) promoted the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States?

• ... that Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) made the oldest known recording of an audible human voice, a visual recording of audio data; that de Martinville managed to sell several phonautographs to scientific laboratories for use in the investigation of sound, proving useful in the study of vowel sounds; that the phonautographs initiated further research into tools able to image sound, such as Koenig's manometric flame?

Topic of the Day

Music

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  "We've Only Just Begun (to Breath)" is a single by [REDACTED] written by [REDACTED] (syntax) and [REDACTED] (semantics) about COVID-19.

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  The Wandering musician problem (also called the Wishful Musician Problem or WMP) asks: "Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that seduces all sweethearts in the city exactly once and returns to the origin city?".

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  "Kanban" is a song by [REDACTED] — "Kanban, nothing more than Kanban / Trying to forget my Kanban of love ...