July 14
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.
Josephine Ascending is an epic historical space opera film directed by Ridley Scott and the Wachowskis, starring Vanessa Kirby, Mila Kunis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Channing Tatum.
Freedom Onion Soup is a brand of French onion soup based on a recipe from the French Revolution.
The Fifth Spidey-Sense is a 1997 science fiction superhero film directed by Luc Besson and starring Chris Tucker, Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, and Gary Oldman.
"Toy Ford Kit" is anagram of "Tokyo Drift".
Beyond Plausible
Gray googly eyes is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating googly eye machines consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves.
In Other Words
Do Androids Dream of Electric Tweets? is a 1968 social media novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
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?
Selected Anniversaries
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.
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