March 25
Better Than News
Wedding Crashers 2: The Wrath of God is an epic historical romantic comedy film directed by David Dobkin and Werner Herzog, and starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Klaus Kinski.
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.
Captain America: The Naked Avenger (Original Lucky Hero Slevin) is a neo-superhero crime noir action film starring Josh Hartnett.
The Wheel is Not Enough is a 1999 spy action-comedy film about the assassination of Fred Flintstone, and James Bond's subsequent assignment to protect Flintstone's daughter Pebbles, who had previously been held for ransom by Cro-Magnon terrorists.
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.
Beyond Plausible
Lyzenko is a science fiction horror film about a deranged wizard (Trofim Lysenko) who raises an army of undead Russian soldiers for an aging warlord (Vladimir Putin).
In Other Words
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Obligate Sexual Parasitism is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
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?
Selected Anniversaries
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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