March 15
Better Than News
The Fellowship of the Dune is a 2001 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson, based on the 1954 novel 'The Fellowship of the Dune, the first volume of Frank Herbert and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Dunes.
Clown Hunter is an American supernatural action-drama television series about Angus von Lachen (Anderson), a former army engineer and circus roustabout who seeks out and neutralizes the world's deadliest clowns.
Dubai Hard is a 2021 Emirati-American action-architecture film written and directed by architect Hayri Atak, and starring Bruce Willis as New York City police architectural engineer John McClane (Willis), who gets caught up in an armed interior designer takeover of a rotating turbine-style Dubai skyscraper while visiting his estranged robot spot-welder in a Dubai prison labor camp.
Gone With the Wind 2 is a 1939 American epic historical comedy romance film starring Larry Hagman and Hattie McDaniel.
1965: Publication of the political thriller novel The Three Stigmata of Karl Marx by American sociologist Philip K. Dick about a future where humankind has implemented every possible economic system.
The Red Shop-rag is a modernist poem by physician and machinist William Carlos Williams.
Beyond Plausible
Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels (SOEP) is an interspecies organization of 13 stomach oil-exporting varieties of petrel. The 13 varieties of petrel account for 40 percent of global stomach oil and 73 percent of the world's "proven" stomach oil capability, making SOEP a major influence on global stomach oil prices.
In Other Words
The Adulteration of Bergamot is a lost erotic novel by Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.
What killed Sigmund Freud might not necessarily kill you is an advertising campaign slogan promoted by HAL 9000 Mental Health Associates.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and academic Arthur Compton won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation?
Selected Anniversaries
44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
1943: Sylvester Stewart born. Better known by his stage name Sly Stone, he is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as front man for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.
1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
Topic of the Day
Wordle
The Wordler is a 2022 American superhero film about about a word puzzle author who targets Gotham's elite.
"Wordache Tonight" is a song recorded by American rock band the Eagles about Wordle.
The Wordle is Not Enough is a 1999 spy action-education film about the murder of a billionaire dictionary publisher, and James Bond's subsequent assignment to protect the publisher's daughter Wordle, who had previously been held for ransom by illiterate terrorists.
