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Revision as of 04:36, 7 June 2022
Better Than News
The Horse Exorcist is an American Western horror film directed by Robert Redford and William Friedkin, and starring Redford and Max von Sydow.
Glyphhanger is a 1993 American action comedy buddy linguistics film about an Army mountain division translator (Stallone) and the last man in the world to speak the oldest known language on Earth (Lithgow) who search for the legendary Lost Glyphs of the Rockies.
The Sound of Donuts is a 1965 American musical foodie film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker.
Sewers of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, Kevin Eastman, and Peter Laird about four genetically-mutated ninja turtles who must adapt to life on the desert planet Arrakis.
Fiddlers of the Lost Roof period musical action-adventure film starring Topol and Harrison Ford.
Love in the Time of Cinnamon (Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del rollo de canela) is a book of recipes written in Spanish by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning chef Gabriel García Márquez and published in 1985.
Blood Orange is a 2006 American agricultural policy thriller film Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood oranges, which have enjoyed enormous popularity in recent years.
Are You Sure
... archaeologist Sylvanus Morley conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I, and that the scope of his activities only come to light after his death in 1948?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1883: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death.
1910: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield born. He will work on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provides the burst of neutrons that kick-starts the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
2022: Apple flowers (7 June 2022).
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Topic of the Day
Dune
Drift is a 1971 American science fiction crime film about John Drift (Richard Roundtree), a Fremen martial arts master who uses desert lore to drive Harkonnen mobsters from Harlem.
Dune: Par 5 is a science fiction sports novel by Frank Herbert and Tiger Woods.
The Dune Knight is 2008 action-ecology film about a deranged mentat (Heath Ledger) whose addiction to a rare mind-expanding drug threatens the stability of interplanetary trade agreements.
Butlerian Jihad 2: Revolt of the Butlers is an American science fiction comedy film about a former robot who must adapt to life among humans.
Basic Instinct 3: Rise of the Bene Gesserit is a 2006 science fiction erotic thriller film about a novelist and suspected Bene Gesserit witch who manipulates a dedicated Suk physician into betrayal of his Imperial conditioning.