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Revision as of 05:01, 26 October 2022
Better Than News
Children of the Beans is a 1984 American supernatural slasher foodie film based on Stephen King's 1977 short story of the same name.
Slap Shot 2: Rise of Nosferatu is a 1977 American sports horror film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean.
Happy Trails Gilmore is an American Western sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Adam Sandler, Dale Evans, and Roy Rogers.
Morbius XII: So Very Anemic is an American science fiction horror-comedy buddy film about an aging starship captain (William Shatner) who befriends a deranged biochemist (Jared Leto).
Terminators in Love is an erotic science fiction fantasy film about two robot assassins who give up killing and elope to a distant planet.
Ocean's Plan 9 is a 1957 independent American science fiction-horror heist film about World War II veterans Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster, who resurrect the corpses of nine comrades from their unit in the 82nd Airborne to simultaneously rob five Las Vegas casinos.
Rosemary's Matrix is an American science fiction horror film about a young mother who comes to believe that her baby is Agent Smith, a deadly computer program in a virtual reality.
Ghost Phone is short documentary film about a man who sees the ghosts of dead cellphones.
What Do People Stalk All Night? is a children's book by Richard Scarry and Carl Kolchak.
Sweeney Vince is a 2007 American revisionist biography musical thriller film loosely based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.
Tarzan: Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel about an archetypal feral child raised by a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island. Tarzan later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the island as a heroic adventurer.
The Pon Farr of the Shrew is a comic stage play written and performed by T'Pring of Vulcan, co-starring her husband, William Shatner.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, praising him for his solution to the Problem of the Points, about which they had exchanged seven previous letters.
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
Topic of the Day
Hot dogs
Picnic of the Damned is a 1995 cooking thriller film starring Christopher Reeve and Oscar Meyer.