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== Better Than News ==
 
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== Beyond Plausible ==
 
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== In Other Words ==
 
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== Are You Sure ==
 
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== Selected Anniversaries ==
 
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Latest revision as of 08:43, 2 September 2024

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

  • William Shatner Overture is the overture to the opera William Shatner, whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Shatner premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's Star Trek themed operas.

    William Shatner Overture is the overture to the opera William Shatner, whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Shatner premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's Star Trek themed operas.

  • The Way We Blur is a Britpop romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, and Blur.

    The Way We Blur is a Britpop romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, and Blur.

  • "Pictures of Nixon" is a lost song by The Who.

    "Pictures of Nixon" is a lost song by The Who.

  • McGuffin is an American political crime drama television series starring G. Gordon Liddy.

    McGuffin is an American political crime drama television series starring G. Gordon Liddy.

  • "To smear your enemies during Investigative Committee witch hunts, see them humiliated before you in the House and Senate, and to hear the lamentation of their Commie Pinko lackeys in the press!" (Nixon the Barbarian)

    "To smear your enemies during Investigative Committee witch hunts, see them humiliated before you in the House and Senate, and to hear the lamentation of their Commie Pinko lackeys in the press!" (Nixon the Barbarian)

In Other Words

  • The Fall and Rise of Francis Urquhart is a British political comedy television series starring Ian Richardson and Leonard Rossiter.

    The Fall and Rise of Francis Urquhart is a British political comedy television series starring Ian Richardson and Leonard Rossiter.

  • Field of Cocaine is a 1989 American substance abuse fantasy drama film based on W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Septum Joe.

    Field of Cocaine is a 1989 American substance abuse fantasy drama film based on W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Septum Joe.

  • Enemy of the Steak is a 1998 American cooking thriller film about an unsuspecting chef who uncovers a plot by rogue genetic meat engineers to create a human-cattle hybrid.

    Enemy of the Steak is a 1998 American cooking thriller film about an unsuspecting chef who uncovers a plot by rogue genetic meat engineers to create a human-cattle hybrid.

Are You Sure

... that Cerberus' Day Off is a 2021 historical drama film about the Bueller Gang's daring broad-daylight kidnapping for ransom of the "Cerberus Three" group of paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago?

Selected Anniversaries

  • 1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

    1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

  • 1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.

    1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.

  • 1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.

    1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.

  • 1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.

    1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.

  • 1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

    1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

  • 1892: Physicist and academic Edward Victor Appleton born. Appleton will make pioneering contributions to radiophysics, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.

    1892: Physicist and academic Edward Victor Appleton born. Appleton will make pioneering contributions to radiophysics, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.

  • 2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

    2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

Topic of the Day

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  • Ferris Bueller 2049 is a 2022 science fiction comedy thriller film about a high school Nexus-9 replicant "grade skipper" (Matthew Broderick) who skips school, with two of his friends, for a day hunting less advanced replicants, and who regularly breaks the fourth wall to describe the paradoxical and incomprehensible consequences of genetic engineering.

    Ferris Bueller 2049 is a 2022 science fiction comedy thriller film about a high school Nexus-9 replicant "grade skipper" (Matthew Broderick) who skips school, with two of his friends, for a day hunting less advanced replicants, and who regularly breaks the fourth wall to describe the paradoxical and incomprehensible consequences of genetic engineering.

  • Ferris Blacker's Day Off is a 1986 American race relations comedy film about a high school slacker who skips school for a day of blackface, regularly breaking the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts.

    Ferris Blacker's Day Off is a 1986 American race relations comedy film about a high school slacker who skips school for a day of blackface, regularly breaking the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts.

  • Cerberus' Day Off is a historical drama film about the Bueller Gang's daring broad-daylight kidnapping for ransom of the "Cerberus Three" group of paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago.

    Cerberus' Day Off is a historical drama film about the Bueller Gang's daring broad-daylight kidnapping for ransom of the "Cerberus Three" group of paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago.

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