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Latest revision as of 09:02, 12 September 2024
Better Than News
TwixtY is a two-player strategy board game where players alternate turns placing pegs and links on Swinging Sixties icon Twiggy in an attempt to link their opposite sides.
Songs From the Wood is a 1977 progressive rock album by English model, actress, and singer Dame Lesley Lawson, better known as Twiggy.
From Rosa with Love is a romantic spy thriller film directed by Terence Young, starring Lotte Lenya and Sean Connery.
Wick Runner is a science fiction crime drama film starring Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos, and Keanu Reeves.
The Superimposed Fraunhofer is a German postage stamp misprint issued on February 12, 1987 in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer demonstrating the spectroscope is inadvertently superimposed on the color spectrum bar.
Tweet is a 1981 neo-noir action social media film by Michael Mann 1.1 about a thief and retired Twitter influencer (James Caan) who is forced to post one last tweet.
Beyond Plausible
"When time is outlawed, only outlaws will have time" is a slogan associated with the Time Rights movement.
"By Any Other Recipe" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Squad 51 Where Are You? is a reality television series that combines the medical drama and action-comedy genres. The series stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as paramedics and improv comedians in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere area.
In Other Words
One does not save the world in a day. One saves the world one small kindness at a time.
Are You Sure
... that Fat Baby Literary Classics is a line of books about Fat Baby sandwiches, each book telling a story about Fat Baby sandwiches from a unique perspective; and that several of the Fat Baby books have been adapted into criminally negligent food films, including The Haunted Chambers of Dom DeLuis and Regurgitating Raoul?
Selected Anniversaries
1648: Blaise Pascal performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum.
1710: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer dies. He made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1749: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre born. He will be one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek dies. He invented the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
1811: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt born. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt will embrace the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1851: Sailors hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk fall prey to Scrimshaw abuse while yet in longboats; they never return to the whaling ship Queepod, but are later rescued by Scrimshaw-dependency naval medical personnel and transferred to the Bethesda Naval Scrimshaw Recovery Center.
1894: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano writes to Felix Klein, "The purpose of mathematical logic is to analyze the ideas and reasoning that especially figure in the mathematical sciences."
1922: "Fightin'" Bert Russell defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match.
1935: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dies. He was one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.
1957: The US military detonates the Plumbbob Rainier nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site. Plumbbob Rainier is the first American underground nuclear bomb test.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky for "inspiring generations of astronauts."
Topic of the Day
Books
A Rivet Runs Through It is a semi-autobiographical collection of three stories by American author Norman Maclean (1902–1990) about construction and home repair.
To Hasp and Hasp Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida who seeks a legendary treasure chest.