September 2

Self portrait with Ely Community Center (2 September 2024) @ 6:21 pm. Relief figure on south side of Ely Community Center.

Better Than News

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  DeWalt Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and industrial designer. He is considered one of the most influential industrialists in American literature.

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  The Spuds MacKenzie Break is a British-American war comedy beer advertising campaign directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, and Jack Watson.

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  Prince of Seltzer is an American science fiction horror-comedy film starring the Three Stooges and directed by John Carpenter.

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  Terminator vs. Lovejoy is a 1984 American science fiction comedy-religion film about a time-traveling robot (Arnold Schwarzenneger) who befriends a Presbylutheran Minister (Timothy Lovejoy Jr.).

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  If you meet the Buddha on an appointment in Samarra, kill him is a self-help book by writer John O'Hara and psychotherapist Sheldon Kopp about a physician in Baghdad who challenges Death to a year of psychotherapy.

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  "American Plate" is a 1971 song by Don McLean about plate spinning and the end of innocence in America.

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  Ruby Slippers is a 1939 psychological horror musical fantasy film starring Judy Garland and Margaret Hamilton. It is loosely based on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Beyond Plausible

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  Cringe is a paranormal mystery of the week TV series which follows the activities of a shadowy agency which investigates and criticizes bad social media posts.

In Other Words

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  Stranger Tweets is an American social media horror drama television series about a series of nightmarish posts by the citizens of Hawkins, a dystopian company town.

Are You Sure

.. that Black Phaeton is a historical drama film based on the race films of the 1920s?

.. that the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere (GSSCPS) is a startup transdimensional corporation with the stated goal of "Dividing the Solar System's quantum unit into two separate quantum units, each attempting to out-compete the other, may the better system win."?

... that archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I, and that the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.

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  1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

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  1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

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  1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.

Topic of the Day

Race

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  "Massa's in de Coal Coal Ground" is a song about the coal industry by Stephen Foster 1.1.

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  Black Phaeton is a historical drama film based on the race films of the 1920s.

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  Why So Raw? is a documentary film by actor and director Eddie Murphy about serial killer and comedian The Joker.

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  "The Ardent Negro" is an anagram of "Enter the Dragon".

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  Hancock Therapy is an unlicensed transdimensional health care service owned and operated by an artificial intelligence based on the film Hancock starring Will Smith.