March 25
Better Than News
Lawrence of Zhivago is an epic biographical adventure romance film directed by David Lean, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Peter O'Toole.
Road House Kane is an epic American action-drama film directed by Rowdy Herrington and Orson Welles, starring Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, and Dorothy Comingore.
Ace Bellboy, The Nutty Detective is a comedy film starring Jerry Lewis and Jim Carrey.
The Man Who Fell to Ergonomics is a science fiction management training film about the importance of ergonomic design in the workplace.
Psycho: Rise of the Psychologists is an American psychological horror film starring Janet Leigh and Jordan Peterson.
The beer can-can dance is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular beer-hall dance in the 1940s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day.
Sting Bellboy, the Ace Face is a comedy historical drama musical film starring Sting and Jim Carrey.
Are You Sure
• ... that in 1857, printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville received a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image?
• ... that mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne founded the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1862: Mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms.
1923: Art critic and alleged time-traveler The Eel escapes from the Nacreum, a transdimensional prison made of artificially intelligent, self-assembling nacre.
1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.
Topic of the Day
Animals
Cretaceous Office Supplies is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic). Now offering "It's Nearly K–Pg Boundary Time!" rush delivery within a half-million years — Guaranteed.
The 1508 Council of Rats holds Arithmetica for ransom. See APTO Math Crimes Unit War Diary (11 March 2021).
Monumental Barkitecture is a canine modern dance company famed for their imitations of monuments, ziggurats, and other large-scale sculptural works.
CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
"We Three Frogs" is a popular Christmas song about Oophaga histrionica, the Harlequin Frog, also known as the Harlequin Magi Poison-Dart Frog, legendary for attending the Adoration with gifts of gold, frankincense, and tadpole eggs.
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