May 26

From Gnomon Chronicles


Better Than News

  • Unicycle Dundee is a 1986 action unicycling film starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.

    Unicycle Dundee is a 1986 action unicycling film starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.

  • St. Elmo's Fries is a 1985 American coming-of-age foodie film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Gordon Ramsay, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Andie MacDowell, and Mare Winningham.

    St. Elmo's Fries is a 1985 American coming-of-age foodie film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Gordon Ramsay, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Andie MacDowell, and Mare Winningham.

  • Gandhi the Barbarian is a 1982 revisionist biographical drama-adventure film starring Ben Kingsley and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Gandhi the Barbarian is a 1982 revisionist biographical drama-adventure film starring Ben Kingsley and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

  • Barbee's Gold is an American fantasy comedy-drama film starring Margot Robbie and Peter Fonda.

    Barbee's Gold is an American fantasy comedy-drama film starring Margot Robbie and Peter Fonda.

  • Squad 51 Where Are You? is a reality television series that combines the medical drama and action-comedy genres. The series stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as paramedics and improv comedians in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere area.

    Squad 51 Where Are You? is a reality television series that combines the medical drama and action-comedy genres. The series stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as paramedics and improv comedians in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere area.

Beyond Plausible

  • The Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.

    The Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.

In Other Words

  • Stranger Thighs is an American science fiction horror cooking television series about the residents of the fictional small town of Chickens, Indiana, as they are plagued by a hostile alternate dimension known as the Chefside Down.

    Stranger Thighs is an American science fiction horror cooking television series about the residents of the fictional small town of Chickens, Indiana, as they are plagued by a hostile alternate dimension known as the Chefside Down.

  • Viagra Tastee Tape is a food-grade adhesive tape containing an active dosage of sildenafil, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

    Viagra Tastee Tape is a food-grade adhesive tape containing an active dosage of sildenafil, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754) was sent to Prieuré Saint-Martin-des-Champs, a school that the authorities sent Protestant children to for indoctrination into Catholicism during a time of severe religious persecution in France during which Protestant worship was forbidden; yet de Moivre remained a steadfast Christian throughout his life; and that among his fellow Huguenot exiles in England, he was a colleague of editor and translator Pierre des Maizeaux?

Selected Anniversaries

  • 1497: Mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti dies. He investigated the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno, and wrote a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.

    1497: Mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti dies. He investigated the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno, and wrote a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.

  • 1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.

    1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.

  • 1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

    1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

  • 1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression.

    1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression.

  • 1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

    1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

Topic of the Day

Philip K. Dick

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