October 19
Better Than News
"Strangers in the Night of the Living Dead" is a song by singer and necromancer Frank Sinatra.
The Waking of the Slate ceremony is louder than ever.
Peak drainage basin is the moment at which erosion of drainage basins reaches a rate greater than that at any time in the past and starts to decrease.
The Pressure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Western geology disaster film about two downtrodden volcanologists (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston) to prevent a catastrophic eruption.
"Legend of a Mine" is a song by the British progressive rock band the The Doubly Some.
My Mother the Core Sample is a fantasy geology sitcom television series.
Beyond Plausible
Cut the Right Wire is an American comedy-drama action film written and directed by Spike Lee.
In Other Words
Mark Trail in Space is a 2022 science fiction animal adventure film.
No Time to Pray is a 2021 Christian spy film starring Daniel Craig in his fifth and final portrayal of fictional British theologian James Bond.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and chemist Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975) discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium; and that Perey was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences (1962), an honor denied to her mentor, Marie Curie?
Selected Anniversaries
1433: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino born. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, will influence the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1909: Criminologist and physician Cesare Lombroso dies. Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic.
1909: Physicist and chemist Marguerite Perey born. Perey will discover the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum.
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
Selected Anniversaries
1433: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino born. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, will influence the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1909: Criminologist and physician Cesare Lombroso dies. Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic.
1909: Physicist and chemist Marguerite Perey born. Perey will discover the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum.
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
Topic of the Day
Books
True Red Weddings is a comic book "true adventure" story loosely based on the "Red Wedding" scene from the 2000 novel A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol is an autobiography of the dueling pistol which killed Alexander Hamilton.
