November 14

Better Than News

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  Funny Girl of Arabia is a British-American epic historical biographical comedy-drama film starring Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, and Walter Pigeon.

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  Charley Third-Eye is an American science fiction revisionist Western film starring Richard Roundtree and Roy Thinnes.

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  The Bandage is a Canadian-American rock band and paramedic group best known for song "Up on Cripple Creek", which they wrote after saving everyone aboard "Old Dixie", a derailed train.

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  Go Ask Alice Blue is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a color addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive pigmentation.

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  Ezekiel Rider is a 1969 American independent Old Testament road drama film loosely based on the life of the prophet Ezeziel. Shown here: adaptation in Adventure magazine.

Beyond Plausible

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  The Wizard is a 1937 children's fantasy graphic novel by J. R. R. Tolkien and Vaughn Bodē.

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  Three Fox Night is an American rock band formed in 1967. Shown here: promoting their hit single "Keep Your Distance".

In Other Words

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  They Live, We Tweet is a science fiction social media dystopia film written and directed by John Carpenter.

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  Repo Man: Love Means Nothing is an American black comedy science fiction tennis film.

Are You Sure

... that physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy?

Topic of the Day

John Lennon

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  "I'm Only Reuben" is a song by the rock band and catering firm [REDACTED].

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  "Insidious Karma" is an alleged lost song by John Lennon.

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  "Imagine There's No Satan" is an alleged lost song by John Lennon.