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Revision as of 13:30, 2 July 2022
Better Than News
Rally Round the Matrix, Boys! is an American science fiction comedy dystopian patriotism film directed by Leo McCarey and the Wachowskis.
There Will Be No Country For Old Blood is an American historical crime drama film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones.
E.T. Rider is an American independent science fiction road drama film about two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from an extraterrestrial cocaine deal.
Matrix in a Red Dress is a 2022 pornographic science fiction documentary film about the Matrix franchise. Narrated by Hugo Weaving.
The Rabelais is a small hat-mounted missile for close-quarters combat.
Are You Sure
... that astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars?
... that Some Like it Haute is short documentary film about two short-order cooks who dress as French chefs order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime (inspired by the Saint Valentine's Day Banquet)?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1804: Author Nathaniel Hawthorne born.
1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
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Topic of the Day
The Twilight Zone
Twilight Zone 2: The Legend of Serling's Gold is an American science fiction supernatural Western film starring Jack Palance as Rod Serling.
"A Time for Kangaroos" is a lost episode of the television series The Twilight Zone staring Bob Keeshan and Bennye Gatteys.
Time Enough in Layers: A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
"The Monsters are Due on MAGA Street" is a lost episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.