September 19
Better Than News
From Rosa with Love is a romantic spy thriller film directed by Terence Young, starring Lotte Lenya and Sean Connery.
Amok Green is a dystopian science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and Joseph Pevney, starring Charton Heston, Leonard Nimoy, and Celia Lovsky.
Savior of Interest is an epic biblical science fiction crime drama television series created by Mel Gibson and Jonathan Nolan, starring Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, and Monica Bellucci.
Wick Runner is a science fiction crime drama film starring Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos, and Keanu Reeves.
The Superimposed Fraunhofer is a German postage stamp misprint issued on February 12, 1987 in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer demonstrating the spectroscope is inadvertently superimposed on the color spectrum bar.
Tweet is a 1981 neo-noir action social media film by Michael Mann 1.1 about a thief and retired Twitter influencer (James Caan) who is forced to post one last tweet.
Beyond Plausible
"When time is outlawed, only outlaws will have time" is a slogan associated with the Time Rights movement.
"By Any Other Recipe" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Squad 51 Where Are You? is a reality television series that combines the medical drama and action-comedy genres. The series stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as paramedics and improv comedians in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere area.
In Other Words
One does not save the world in a day. One saves the world one small kindness at a time.
Are You Sure
... that Fat Baby Literary Classics is a line of books about Fat Baby sandwiches, each book telling a story about Fat Baby sandwiches from a unique perspective; and that several of the Fat Baby books have been adapted into criminally negligent food films, including The Haunted Chambers of Dom DeLuis and Regurgitating Raoul?
Selected Anniversaries
1648: Blaise Pascal performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum.
1710: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer dies. He made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1749: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre born. He will be one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek dies. He invented the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
1811: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt born. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt will embrace the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1851: Sailors hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk fall prey to Scrimshaw abuse while yet in longboats; they never return to the whaling ship Queepod, but are later rescued by Scrimshaw-dependency naval medical personnel and transferred to the Bethesda Naval Scrimshaw Recovery Center.
1894: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano writes to Felix Klein, "The purpose of mathematical logic is to analyze the ideas and reasoning that especially figure in the mathematical sciences."
1922: "Fightin'" Bert Russell defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match.
1935: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dies. He was one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.
1957: The US military detonates the Plumbbob Rainier nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site. Plumbbob Rainier is the first American underground nuclear bomb test.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky for "inspiring generations of astronauts."
Topic of the Day
Books
A Rivet Runs Through It is a semi-autobiographical collection of three stories by American author Norman Maclean (1902–1990) about construction and home repair.
To Hasp and Hasp Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida who seeks a legendary treasure chest.