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Revision as of 03:52, 14 April 2022
Better Than News
Downhill Proposal is an American romantic drama sports film starring Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson, and Demi Moore.
The Man From D.U.S.T.B.O.W.L. is a historical drama spy psychological thriller television series written and directed by Ken Burns and starring David McCallum.
Cronenburger is a Canadian-American extreme body modification restaurant chain inspired by David Cronenberg's 1981 film Scanners.
End of Days of Thunder is an American supernatural sports action horror film starring Tom Cruise, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Bourne Legacy Hotel is an action comedy-drama film directed by Tony Gilroy and Wes Anderson, starring Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Jeremy Renner, and Rachel Weisz.
Sinkhole is a psychological thriller revisionist historical drama television series based on the television series The Waltons.
The Adventures of Bees Lightyear is a science fiction comedy horror fantasy film directed by Neil LaBute and Jordan Cole, starring Nicolas Cage and Tim Allen.
Are You Sure
• ... that astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) invented a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars?
• ... that mathematician Vera Faddeeva (20 September 1906 - 15 April 1983) pioneered linear algebra; and that her Computational Methods of Linear Algebra (1950) was widely acclaimed?
• ... that physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. (18 November 1831 – 15 April 1911) researched galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; and that Bosscha was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire?
• ... that Titanic Maru is an international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1452: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci born. His areas of interest will include painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.
1552: Mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi born. Cataldi will contribute to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he will also discover the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588.
1707: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
1764: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1878: Physicist Ernst Ruhmer born. Ruhmer will invent applications for the light-sensitivity properties of selenium, including wireless telephony using line-of-sight optical transmissions, sound-on-film audio recording, and television transmissions over wires.
1911: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. dies. Bosscha made important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
Topic of the Day
Scooby-Doo
Dinkley & Roth is a comedy television series starring Velma Dinkley and David Lee Roth.
Commoditizing Jerry's Legacy" is a potential profit-center currently under review by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere as a replacement for Bezos Money.
"Let's drown those meddling campers before they discover the grow room on old Mister Withers' Haunted Toilet Paper Ranch. Then let's go out for Fat Baby sandwiches."
"Keen Vim Dally" is an anagram of "Velma Dinkley".