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Revision as of 04:17, 13 June 2022
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.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and logician Alonzo Church contributed to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
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
