June 25

Better Than News

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  Jurassic Spock is a 1993 American science fiction action film about a team of scientists who recreate Spock from his DNA. When sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the global power and security grids, Spock must struggle to survive and escape Earth.

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  The Men Who Stare at Goatees is a satirical black comedy science fiction war film starring George Clooney and Leonard Nimoy.

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  Bugles After the Massacre is a Western feature film starring Ray Milland, based on Bugles corn snack food. The story features the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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  Deal or Raw Deal is an American action game show reality television program starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Howie Mandel.

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  The Oort Patrol is an American action-astronomy television series about the exploits of four Allied astronauts — three Americans and one British — who are part of a long-range exoplanetary patrol group in the Oort Cloud campaign during World War II.

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  The Thalassocrats is a 2005 American documentary comedy film about maritime realms, empires at sea, and seaborne empires.

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  Sméagol Financial Advisors is a financial services transdimensional corporation owned and operated by Sméagol of Middle Earth.

Beyond Plausible

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  Freedom Onion Soup is a brand of French onion soup based on a recipe from the French Revolution.

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  Cheese Hunter is an American television series about the world's rarest and most dangerous cheese.

In Other Words

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  Splashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama personal hygiene film starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young apprentice plumber who aspires to become a professional industrial designer.

Are You Sure

... that an unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian space station Mir in 1997?

... that the Planetary Catastrophe Recovery Task Force is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which works towards recovery from planetary catastrophes, mainly in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere, but also, to a lesser extent, in the Oort cloud and other nearby volumes of space?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

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  1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

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  1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

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  1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.

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  2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

Topic of the Day

Denzel Washington

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  "Am Inferno" is an anagram of "Man on Fire" (2004).

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  American Gangbird is a 2007 American ornithology buddy crime film about a thieving bird (Russell Crowe) who smuggles bright shiny objects, and an Audubon Society detective (Denzel Washington).

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  The Tomahawk Bone Collector is an American crime revisionist Western thriller film starring Kurt Russell, Angelina Jolie, and Denzel Washington.

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  Sleepless in Philadelphia is a 2021 safe sex romance drama educational film starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Denzel Washtington.