September 1
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Better Than News
The Old Man and C-3PO is a science fiction adventure film directed by George Lucas, based on the novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway.
Old Spice candy corn deodorant snack is a candy corn flavored deodorant snack food.
Gentle Ben, Bounty Hunter is a 1965 children's novel about the friendship between a large male bear named Ben and a bounty hunter named Mark. The story provided the basis for the 1967 film Gentle Giant Hunter (1967), the popular late 1960s U.S. television series 'Gentle Ben, Bounty Hunter, a 1980s animated cartoon, and two early 2000s made-for-TV movies.
Soylent Hill is a supernatural dystopian horror film directed by Christophe Gans and Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston and Radha Mitchell.
The Day the Matrix Stood Still is a science fiction thriller film starring Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves.
Pulp Fission is a black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Are You Sure
... that "When Will I See Eschaton" is a song released in 1974 by pre-Apocalyptic soul group The Earth Debris, from their third album Triple Threat?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1681: Mathematician Michelangelo Ricci created Cardinal.
1861: Chemist Lazăr Edeleanu born. Edeleanu will invent the modern method of refining crude oil, and will be the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
Spice Trek is a 2021 science fiction crime drama film about interplanetary trafficking in melange, a prescience-inducing drug.
"Death of a Stalactite" is an one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. The script is widely but erroneously attributed to Arthur Miller.