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Revision as of 05:02, 26 October 2022
Better Than News
Great Red Spot Cat Toys is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manufactures and distributes novelty oversized laser pointer toys for cats.
Who's Eating Gilbert Grape? is a 1993 coming-of-age film about a deranged masked cannibal.
The Subletting of Hill House is a 1959 property management horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. The story relies on contract negotiations and litigation proceedings to elicit emotion in the reader, exploring complex relationships between the tenants, subtenants, sub-sub-tenants, and so on.
The Day After Barbie is a fantasy disaster film directed by Greta Gerwig and Roland Emmerich, starring Margot Robbie, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Gosling, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Usual Jokers is a neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Tim Burton and Bryan Singer, starring Jack Nicholson and Kevin Spacey.
12 Grams of 21 Monkeys is a science fiction crime drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and Terry Gilliam.
Steel Pizzas is a romantic comedy-drama film directed by Donald Petrie and Herbert Ross, starring Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Lili Taylor, and Olympia Dukakis.
Severed is a 1995 American neo-noir psychological horror film about a troubled police detective (Brad Pitt) who find his own severed head in a cardboard box.
Pulp Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino and Peter Hyams, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory, and that Ringel contributed to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Topic of the Day
Batman
Bane Capital is a legal thriller film about a renegade aerospace engineer (Tom Hardy) who blackmails Gotham City into issuing municipal bonds for the upgrade of aging runways at Gotham City International Airport.
The Dark Slice is a 2008 cooking thriller film about a deranged short order cook (Heath Ledger) who seeks to undermine Chefman's influence and burn all the meals in Gotham City.