March 2
Better Than News
Crown of the Vampire is a historical horror drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Gentle Ben, Bounty Hunter is a 1965 children's novel about the friendship between a large male bear named Ben and a bounty hunter named Mark. The story provided the basis for the 1967 film Gentle Giant Hunter (1967), the popular late 1960s U.S. television series 'Gentle Ben, Bounty Hunter, a 1980s animated cartoon, and two early 2000s made-for-TV movies.
Sardaukar Leader is a 1977 tactical level board war game which simulates infantry combat on Arrakis during the betrayal of the Atreides by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV.
Cucumber Eyes is a 2021 personal hygiene drama film starring Woody Harrelson, Javier Bardem, and Tim Robbins & Tim Robbins 1.1.
Beyond Plausible
"You Don't Bring Me Big Bangs" is a song by cosmologists Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond.
In Other Words
Cleanskin Ascending is a space opera spy thriller film directed by Hadi Hajaig and the Wachowskis, starring Sean Bean, Channing Tatum, and Mila Kunis.
Knights of the Old Spice Republic is an RPG video game series based Old Spice products and set in the fictional universe of Star Wars by George Lucas and Procter & Gamble.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Jordan Carson Mark oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s; and that Mark was able to bring together experts like Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam, and Marshall Holloway despite their personal differences?
• ... that a semaphore telegraph is a system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters, also known as blades or paddles?
• ... that George Gershwin's I Got Spaces is a tribute to spaces, vectors, metrics, and other mathematical objects?
Selected Anniversaries
1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1729: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini dies. Bianchini was secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.
1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore telegraph machine in Paris.
1931: Premiere of I Got Spaces by George Gershwin. "I got spaces / I got vectors / I got metrics / Who could ask for anything more?"
1972: The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1997: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
Topic of the Day
Egypt
"Nefertiti or Nephritis?" is an episode of the documentary reality television series Who Would Win in a Fight?
Sphinx failure got you down? Canopic Snickers Really Immortalizes.
1963: Pyramid of the Sun is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
