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Latest revision as of 15:05, 13 June 2024
Better Than News
Twelve Monkeys in Tibet is a science fiction biographical war drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and Terry Gilliam, starring Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, and Bruce Willis.
The San Francisco sphere is an unnatural feature of San Francisco Bay, known since at least 2022.
The Macaroni Break is a 1970 British war prison camp comfort food film starring Brian Keith and Helmut Griem.
Being Bruce Wayne is a surrealist fantasy comedy superhero film starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and Michael Keaton.
Wealthy is a brand of beard towels marketed toward affluent yet rugged men.
Red Phone Missile Command is a telecommunications provider and nuclear war management service.
Beyond Plausible
"I Stockholm That Emotion" is a song by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
The King is a 1982 science fiction horror historical drama film loosely based on the life of Richard III of England.
Asgard Girls Are Easy is an American science fiction romantic superhero comedy film starring Geena Davis, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, and Jeff Goldblum.
In Other Words
Popeye the Sailor Diagnostician in "I Yam Me Own Underlying Condition".
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and logician Alonzo Church contributed to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science?
Selected Anniversaries
1791: Polymath Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1903: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church born. He will make major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.
1946: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1986: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges dies. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1995: Writer Roger Zelazny dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1995:The Custodian offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer Roger Zelazny.
2022: Self portrait.
Topic of the Day
Satan
The Tao of Blake is an an unlicensed transdimensional corporation camouflaged as William Blake and his Art.
Satan's School for Invaders is a made-for-television science fiction horror film about a group of young women at Radcliffe who make contact with a malign alien intelligence.
"Imagine There's No Satan" is an alleged lost song by John Lennon.
"Satan said that?" —Krusty the Clown
