July 10

Better Than News

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  Peggy Sue Got Moonstruck is an American fantasy romantic comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Norman Jewison, starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, and Cher.

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  Judge Dredd Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a film science fiction drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Diane Lane and Diane Ladd.

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  "The Great Gig and the Damage Done" is a song by Neil Young and Pink Floyd.

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  The Mini-Defibrillator is a miniature personal defibrillator device manufactured by Sony for the amateur paramedical market.

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  Greens is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.

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  One Day at a Time is a made-for-television documentary film about the 1976 invasion of Indianapolis by as-yet [30 August 2021] unidentified transdimensional actors camouflaged as Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, and Valerie Bertinelli.

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  Film Reviews of Fire is a movie review television program hosted by Ben Cross and Ron Burgundy.

Beyond Plausible

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  Inception 2: Fading Traces is a science fiction action comedy buddy film starring Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy.

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  Lord of the Flies 2: Trapped in Assisi is a dramatic thriller film about a group of young monks trapped in a haunted monastery. It is loosely based on the life of Francis of Assisi.

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  Altered Face is a science fiction crime thriller film directed by Ken Russell and starring William Hurt as a scientist who tries to cover up his illegal drug experiments by reverting to a primitive ancestral state.

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  "Morning Has Broken (But I'm Your Handy Man)" is a song by Yusuf Islam and James Taylor.

In Other Words

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  Private Zod: Rise of the Soldiers is a 2012 superhero biographical film starring Michael Shannon.

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  First Dark Knight is an American medieval superhero film based on Arthurian legend.

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  Liquor Donuts is an American independent black comedy drama film by Steve Buscemi.

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  Winges were a British-American rock band.

Are You Sure

... that Telstar 1, the world's first communications satellite, was launched into orbit on 10 July 1962, and that two days later Telstar relayed a live television signal across the Atlantic?

... the Society for the Advancement of VALIS (SAV) is a provisionally licensed transdimensional corporation which promotes and advances the interests of VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), representing author and alleged time-traveler Philip K. Dick's gnostic vision of God?

Topic of the Day

Fire

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  Wheel of Fire 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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  Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel.

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  Signed first edition of Fire Dance spontaneously bursts into flames after performing Carmen before a sold-out crowd at Opera Hall in New Minneapolis, Canada. Despite extensive damage from fire and smoke, almost all of the data from the performance will be recovered.

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  Les Empyrées was a direct computational action collective which emerged during the later stages of the French Revolution.