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Latest revision as of 13:16, 12 June 2024
Better Than News
Magnum, E.T. is an American science fiction crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as E.T. Magnum, an extraterrestrial private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii.
Double Indemnity 2: The Cubist Paradigm is an American screwball comedy romance art history film starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, reprising their roles from Double Indemnity (1944).
"I Won't Back Watership Down" is a song by Tom Petty and Richard Adams.
Outland is a 2024 science fiction thriller film written and directed by an anonymous artificial intelligence.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Jesus a crime sports film about Jesus Quintana, a Los Angeles bowling champion who is blackmailed by a biker (Mickey Rourke) and a cigarette smuggler (Don Johnson).
Beyond Plausible
Pets Make a Deal is a television game show featuring household pets who compete for cash and prizes.
Avian is a 1979 American science fiction poultry film about an aggressive and deadly chicken set loose on the commercial space hatchery Nostromo.
In Other Words
Angel Heat is a 1995 American supernatural crime drama film about the conflict between an LAPD exorcist (Al Pacino) and a private investigator (Mickey Rourke) who works for demons, while also depicting the consequences of worldwide spiritual crisis.
"Asking for a Friend" is a lost song by the Rolling stones.
Are You Sure
• ... that cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius created the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, and that Ortelius was among to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions?
• ... that mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and made contributed to the science of dynamics?
• ... that mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva (19 November 1876 – Leiden, 14 April 1964) contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands?
• ... that Christiaan Huygens wrote, in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII: "proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art alike."?
Topic of the Day
Doctor Strange
The Imitation Strange is a 2016 American historical superhero film about mathematician Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for Doctor Strange during World War II.
World's Fair is a 2022 novel by the pseudonymous "Doctorow Strange", believed to be the spirit of deceased author E.L. Doctorow.