July 14
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Better Than News
Vast Eel Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the official gnostic day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year.
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.
Matrix: The Last Straw is a science fiction comedy-drama film loosely based on the life of Salty MacTavish.
Ben-Hur 2 is an epic American religious animal rights horror film directed by Phil Karlson and William Wyler, starring Charlton Heston and Lee Montgomery.
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.