April 20
Better Than News
Jocasta is a 2019 psychological thriller family drama film starring Frances Conroy and Joaquin Phoenix.
Rivers of Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the only Red Hot Chili Peppers album to feature British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell.
A Room With a View 2 is a 1999 romance thriller film starring Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, and Edward Norton.
Salty No. 5 is a chemtrail-themed perfume with notes of Mennen Speed Stick and fried bologna.
The Passion of the Binks is a 2004 American science fiction comedy-religion film about a young ascetic Jew (Jar Jar Binks) who is betrayed and crucified as the Emperor has foreseen.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961?
• ... that Clandestiphrine is a transdimensional drug which amplifies the user's will to conceal events and misdirect attention which is widely used by police and military agencies to improve the outcome of covert operations, and that in with large, extended doses, illegal paramilitary operations can be entirely concealed from public awareness?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1902: Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1918: Physicist and academic Karl Ferdinand Braun dies. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology, sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
1932: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano dies. He did pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.
1945: Mathematician Georg Feigl dies. He worked on the foundations of geometry and topology, studying fixed point theorems for n-dimensional manifolds. Feigl was one of the initial authors of the Mathematisches Wörterbuch.
1961: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1962: Traces of Clandestiphrine residue are detected at the Bay of Pigs, raising questions about CIA involvement with transdimensional drugs.
Topic of the Day
Aviation
Fly Another Day is a 2002 aviation-drama film about an aeronautical engineer (Pierce Brosnan) who must stop a ruthless secret agent (Ferdinand von Zeppelin) from destroying an advanced luxury airship.
The Personal Copters Prison Experiment is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which uses forced prison labor to develop advanced personal helicopter technology.