August 6

Better Than News

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  Keebler Impact is an action-thriller film about a food poisoning victim (Sondra Locke) who seeks revenge on the Keebler elves by killing them one by one, and the police inspector (Clint Eastwood) who is tasked with tracking her down.

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  Full Metal 300 is a historical war drama film written and directed by Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder.

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  Jurassic Piano is a 1993 erotic science fiction period action-drama film directed by Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg.

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  Klute 2: Return to Golden Pond is an American romantic thriller film starring Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Donald Sutherland.

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  Absence of Verdict is a neo-noir legal drama thriller film starring Paul Newman and Sally Field.

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  The Bullitt is a 1958 neo-noir action horror film starring Steve McQueen.

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  The Bourne Decaffeination is a 2002 action-coffee film starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from caffeine deprivation amnesia attempting to discover his identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA.

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  Matrix of Steel is a 2013 American superhero science fiction film starring Henry Cavill and Keanu Reeves.

Are You Sure

... that the song "Have You Never Been Holden?" by Olivia Newton-John and J.D. Salinger which asks:
"Have you never been Holden?
Have you never tried
To flush the phonies from inside you?"

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.

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  1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

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  1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming born. Fleming will discover the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

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  1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.

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  1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

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  1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

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  2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

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  2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

Topic of the Day

Extinction

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  Formerly Wild Kingdom, better known as Mutual of Omaha's Formerly Wild Kingdom, is an American documentary television program that features formerly interesting wildlife and nature, now dull and boring or simply unavailable due to overhunting, overfishing, urban sprawl, desertification, and coastal land loss in the age of rising oceans.