March 11
Better Than News
The Wordle is Not Enough is a 1999 spy action-education film about the murder of a billionaire dictionary publisher, and James Bond's subsequent assignment to protect the publisher's daughter Wordle, who had previously been held for ransom by illiterate terrorists.
Old Thumper is an American drama film about a Fremen boy and a stray dog on post-Butlerian Jihad Arrakis.
Iphigenia in Dallas is the last of the extant works by the scriptwriter Euripides, who is best known as the lead author of The Warren Commission Report.
Little Terminator is a 1984 documentary memoir film by Arnold Schwarzenegger about his penis.
Are You Sure
• ... that engineer and academic Vannevar Bush: developed the Differential Analyzer; initiated the Manhattan Project, and oversaw government mobilization of scientific research during World War II; and made pioneering contributions to computer science?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1437: Korean astronomers record the appearance of a new star, which shines for fourteen days before dimming. This astronomical event will later be known as Nova Scorpii AD 1437.
1811: Mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier born. Le Verrier will predict the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event which will be widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.
1822: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand born. Bertrand will contribute to number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
1823: Publication of Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
1890: Engineer and academic Vannevar Bush born. Bush develop the Differential Analyzer, initiate the Manhattan Project and oversee government mobilization of scientific research during World War II, and make pioneering contributions to computer science.
1955: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming dies. Fleming discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
Topic of the Day
France
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" is a song by American travel agents The Hobby Aces.
Some Like it Haute is short documentary film about two short-order cooks who dress as French chefs order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime (inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Banquet).
The Cardinals Come at Dusk is a 2022 historical supernatural thriller film about a French clergyman (Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu) who gains strange powers at dusk.
Eel-de-France is an annual eel race across France.