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Latest revision as of 07:36, 25 September 2024
Better Than News
Indiana Jones and the Valley of the Dolls is a 1966 action-adventure novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. It was adapted for film by George Lucas in 1981.
Big Trouble on Little Arrakis is a science fiction comedy adventure film directed by John Carpenter and Denis Villeneuve and starring Kurt Russell.
Heuristic Park is a science fiction action film directed by Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg about a mathematician (Jeff Goldblurm) who recreates HAL 9000 from source code backups.
"Do You Believe in Warships" is a song by American rock band The Lovin' Bombshell.
Cooking Tonight with Shelley Duvall is a cooking television series starring hosted by Shelley Duvall. Each episode features Duvall reprising a film role as she prepares a thematically appropriate meal.
"Sawin' Alive" is a song written and performed by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Jigsaw motion picture soundtrack.
Beyond Plausible
"Whole Lotta Tweets" is a song by Led Zeppelin.
Pork Chop Infidel is a 1959 American biographical drama war film starring Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, and Rip Torn.
In Other Words
Alien: First Commandment is a 1979 religious science fiction horror film written and directed by Ridley Scott.
The Game 2 is an American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher and starring Jason Statham.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Kyshtym disaster was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site in Russia for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of the Soviet Union?
Selected Anniversaries
1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
Topic of the Day
Submarines
"Jell-O Submarine" is a song by the British rock group and catering group The Beatles.
The Unruly Submarine (better known as Unruly Little Submarine) is a celebrated children's book about a young submarine who misbehaves, with disastrous consequences for the [REDACTED] Navy.
Dive! Dive!: My Search for the Best Undersea Dive Bar is a set of instructions, allegedly from an anonymous sailor, for locating the legendary "Lost Undersea Dive Bar".
Devolver is one of the so-called "lost" Beatles albums.