November 8

Better Than News

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  2001: A Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones as a widowed mother who embarks on a second career in artificial intelligence security.

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  Blade Lottery is a 1982 American dystopian science fiction film about state-sponsored gambling.

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  When a Riddler Calls is a 1979 American superhero psychological horror film based on the classic folk legend of "the babysitter and the man upstairs".

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  Flipper 2049 is a science fiction nature film about a young Fish Runner who discovers a long-buried ichthyographic secret which leads him to track down Flipper the Dolphin.

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  Bathsheba at Her Bath with Cell Phone is an oil painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt.

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  The Man Who Knew to Mulch is a 1956 American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.

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  It Takes a Green is an American ecology-crime television series starring Malachi Throne.

Beyond Plausible

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  Wicker Equalizer is a spy thriller horror television series as a retired intelligence agent with a mysterious past, who uses the skills from his former career to exact justice on behalf of innocent people on the isolated and mysterious Scottish island of Summerisle.

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  Some Men Just Want to Watch Get Carter is a 2023 superhero crime documentary film narrated by Michael Caine.

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  Bane Capital is a legal thriller film about a renegade aerospace engineer (Tom Hardy) who blackmails Gotham City into issuing municipal bonds for the upgrade of aging runways at Gotham City International Airport.

In Other Words

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  "A Time for Kangaroos" is a lost episode of the television series The Twilight Zone staring Bob Keeshan and Bennye Gatteys.

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  Haste Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 time management film adapted from Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 book of the same title.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis (3 December 1616 – 8 November 1703) served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court?

Topic of the Day

Gold

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  From Cape Town With Love is a syndicated direct investment advice program starring celebrity economist James Bond.

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  How many gold bars per day can a man publicly dump into the sea and yet have money left over to pay naval mercenaries to guard the site 24 by 7 by 365 so that no one ever raises that gold?

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  Golden Spiral voted Spiral of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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  Ducks: How to Make Them Pay is an ornithological handbook comprising tales of greed and vengeance among the Anatidae.