January 1
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Better Than News
Love, Mannequin Style is an anthology comedy television series. Each episode features a story of mannequin romance, usually with a comedic spin.
The Candidate: Endgame is an American political science fiction drama film about leftist lawyer Bill McKay (Robert Redford), who is recruited by Hydra to run for World Security Council Secretary seat against admired Republican Thanos (Josh Brolin).
"Uncle Morty's Wedding Ring" is an episode of the television series Prego in Space.
The Mycroft Holmes Picture Show is a musical comedy horror television series adapted from the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Every Dobby Loves Raymond is a fantasy sitcom television series starring Toby Jones and Ray Romano.
We Need to Talk About Ethan is a psychological thriller spy drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay and Brian De Palma, and starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Cruise.
What's the best time of year to fall in love? Now. —The Butterfly Nebula
Beyond Plausible
All in the Family 2 is an American science fiction television sitcom starring Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner, and Yul Brynner.
Running Man 2: Sprint to Destruction is an American sports action thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Calendar Girl is a song by Neil Young.
In Other Words
All right children, what did we learn from the Twentieth Century?
"Never cover Bohemian Rhapsody".
Glutenberg Bible is an ecumenical religious bakery franchise headquartered in New Minneapolis, Canada.
Are You Sure
• ... that cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy after a trial by the Roman Inquisition, during which Bruno's pantheism was a matter of grave concern, although formal charges cited Bruno's denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation?
• ... that chromatographic analysis of Golden Spiral unexpectedly revealed "at least five hundred and twelve, perhaps two or even four times as many" previously unknown shades of the color yellow?
• ... that mathematician and physician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain, an invention long accredited to Johann Friedrich Böttger (although others believe that porcelain had been made by English manufacturers at an even earlier date)?
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
Khan Heir is a 1997 American science fiction film about a prison break aboard a United Federation of Planets spacecraft masterminded by the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán).
"Censor of the Gun" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
"The Seventies Within"— A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into Carly Simon and Farrah Fawcett. (Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes.)