October 1
Better Than News
Sawless in Seattle is an American psychological horror television series starring Kelsey Grammer and Peri Gilpin, two marriage counsellors whose own marriage descends into madness when they host a live call-in radio show.
There's Something About Benny is a romantic comedy-horror film directed by Peter Farrelly and Karl Holt, starring Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Claire Cartwright, and Karl Holt.
Precinct 13 Halloween is an action thriller horror film by written and directed by John Carpenter.
The Last Temptation of Julie Andrews is an epic religious biographical drama film directed by Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese, starring Julie Andrews and Willem Dafoe.
The Pumpkin Spice parking meter is a variety of parking meter available seasonally in some cities (notably New Minneapolis, Canada).
"Kolchak in the Morning" is a song by Diana Ross and Darren McGavin.
Hamill Wars on Ice is a series of touring ice shows produced by Dorothy Hamill and Mark Hamill under agreement with The Gnomon Chronicles Exotemporal Talent Agency.
Big Thing in Little China is a comedy horror thriller film starring Kurt Russell.
Are You Sure
• ... that poet and inventor Charles Cros (1 October 1842 – 9 August 9 1888) was a member of Les Hydropathes, a Parisian literary club?
• ... that mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen (2 April 2 1898 – 1 October 1 1940) contributed to quasi-algebraic closure, proving Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1); and that this implies that the Brauer group of any such field vanishes, and more generally that all the Galois cohomology groups H i(K, K*) vanish for i ≥ 1?
• ... that scholar, priest, and physician Marsilio Ficino (19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) wrote: "This century, like a golden age, has restored to light the liberal arts, which were almost extinct: grammar, poetry, rhetoric, painting, sculpture, architecture, music ... this century appears to have perfected astrology."?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1842: Poet and inventor Charles Cros born. He will pioneer sound recording, inventing the Paleophone, and investigate the transmission of graphics by telegraph.
1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1940: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).
1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.
1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
The war between consensus reality and reality is an ongoing high-energy literature research project.
"Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Tar Trek is a television series within the "Spock's Beard" alternate universe.
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