September 4

Stained Glass Angelica Flowerhead.

Better Than News

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  Jeremiah Brubaker is an American prison drama film about newly arrived prison warden Jeremiah Brubaker (Robert Redford), who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system while dealing with the traumatic memories of his mountain man past.

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  We Need to Talk About Kelvin a 2011 thermodynamics thriller drama film about a low-temperature physics researcher (Tilda Swinton) who struggles to come to terms with her psychopathic son and the horrors he has committed with liquid helium.

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  Planet of the Teens is a 1968 American science fiction educational filmstrip which tells the story of an adult astronaut crew that crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which teens have evolved into creatures with adult-like intelligence and speech, and have assumed the role of the dominant species.

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  Jedi vs. Homelander is a science fiction superhero television series.

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  Tropic of Kandor is a Superman story written by Henry Miller. It is Miller's only known work in the American superhero genre.

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  Drugstore Condom is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant.

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  Three Legs of the Fryer is a 1975 American political animal rights film about a bookish CIA poultry researcher (Robert Redford) who comes back from lunch after developing a viable three-legged chicken to discover his co-worker (Tyson Foods) murdered.

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  The Wordle is Not Enough is a 1999 spy action-education film about the murder of a billionaire dictionary publisher, and James Bond's subsequent assignment to protect the publisher's daughter Wordle, who had previously been held for ransom by illiterate terrorists.

Are You Sure

... that the Association for the Advancement of Antonin Artaud is a licensed, non-profit transdimensional corporation which advances the interests, ideals, and aberrant psychologies of Antonin Artaud; and that the Association, while licensed, is notoriously undisciplined and has serious side-effects including the invention of a cocktail which calls for two parts absinthe to one part Extract of Radium?

... that Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol was written by the dueling pistol which killed Alexander Hamilton?

... that George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak and received a patent for his camera that uses roll film on this day in 1888?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

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  1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

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  1887: Math photographer Cantor Parabola and inventor George Eastman discuss advances in film technology.

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  1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

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  1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies.

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  1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

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  1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Topic of the Day

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  Gun Bud is a nature-action film starring [REDACTED] the Dog and Tom Cruise.

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  The Man with the Golden Musket (1974): James Bond must recover the Storax Toga Lei, a breakthrough fashion solution to contemporary aesthetic shortages, before criminally deranged fashion designer Canna Fracas Orgasmic raises hemlines to the waist.

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  "Do You Carry Your Gun Into Church?" No, I wire the explosives to the collection plate. Now put on that fucking scuba mask and get in the baptismal font or I'll—

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  Boss Dog is an organic golem designed and manufactured by Symbionts Can Do to mimic Spot the mechanical robot dog.

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  Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol is an autobiography of the dueling pistol which killed Alexander Hamilton.