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Revision as of 06:29, 24 July 2024
Better Than News
The Thin Red World is an epic historical romantic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the violent founding of New Jamestown on Mars and the inter-planetary breeding program allegedly run by Captain John Smith.
Days of Badlands is a romantic crime period drama film directed by Terrence Mallick and starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Richard Gere, and Brooke Adams.
Bonsai lock picking is the practice of unlocking a lock by manipulating the components of the lock device using a bonsai or similar miniature tree.
Griftre is a neo-noir spy crime thriller film directed by Stephen Frears and Sam Mendes, starring Daniel Craig, John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening.
Pump Up the Jam is a comedy food science film about an inventor's attempts to make inflatable jam.
Beyond Plausible
Bearface is a 1983 American crime drama film about a bear cub who survives a forest fire and grows up to become a homicidal drug lord.
"Kevintown" is a 1982 song by Billy Joel about actor Kevin Bacon.
In Other Words
Selected Anniversaries
1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.
1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Topic of the Day
Games
![Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.](/w/images/thumb/e/e7/Grand_Theft_Anathem.jpg/112px-Grand_Theft_Anathem.jpg)
Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.
Connect Forrest Gump is a 1994 American gaming-drama film about Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), a slow-witted and kindhearted man from Alabama who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century United States while playing Connect Four.
