July 14
Better Than News
Napoleon: The Professional is an epic action-thriller historical drama film directed and produced by Luc Besson and Ridley Scott, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jean Reno, Vanessa Kirby, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman.
Blade Runner Galactica is a science fiction television series starring Lorne Greene, Edward James Olmos, and Harrison Ford.
I Am Curious (Texas) is a 1967 Swedish erotic geography film.
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Ark" is a song from the 2014 film NOAA.
Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
The Lord of the NFTs is an epic fantasy NFT film about a software developer (Sauron) who creates the One NFT to maximize return on investment from Men, Dwarves, and Elves.
Blue Orb Critics Awards are awards presented by Blue Orb critics to recognize "outstanding" achievements by Blue Orbs.
Pivot Shock is a 1970 book by martial artist Alvin Toffler about the importance of re-directing an opponent's energy.
Are You Sure
... that German diplomat and intelligence officer Hans Bernd Gisevius was a covert opponent of the Nazi regime, and a radical communist; and that Gisevius served as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany?
... that Small Boy was a United States Army tactical nuclear weapon test-detonated at the Nevada Test Site ir 14 July 1962, and that the yield was 1.65 kilotons?
... that the The Custodian confiscates unlicensed nuclear weapons whenever possible; and that unlicensed nuclear war is absolutely forbidden and severely punished?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1904: German diplomat and intelligence officer Hans Bernd Gisevius born. Gisevius will be covert opponent of the Nazi regime, and a radical communist; he will serve as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.
Topic of the Day
UFOs
Satan's School for Invaders is a made-for-television science fiction horror film about a group of young women at Radcliffe who make contact with a malign alien intelligence.
![Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film which tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.](/w/images/thumb/c/c3/Close_Encounters_of_the_Spud_Kind.jpg/120px-Close_Encounters_of_the_Spud_Kind.jpg)
Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film which tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.
Charley Third-Eye is an American science fiction revisionist Western film starring Richard Roundtree and Roy Thinnes.