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Picture of the day for November 25, 2017

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An immature male bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae), the smallest bird in the world - it weighs only 1.6 grams. It is endemic to Cuba. Today is the first anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro, President of Cuba for over 31 years..

biennium: Word of the day for November 25, 2017

biennium , n : A period of two years. Today is the eve of the closing of the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Article of the day for November 25, 2017

The Article of the day for November 25, 2017 is New Worlds (magazine) . New Worlds is a British science fiction magazine that began in 1936 as a fanzine called Novae Terrae. It was first published professionally in 1946, edited by John Carnell. It was the leading British science fiction publication during the period to 1960 described by historian Mike Ashley as the magazine's "Golden Age". Early issues featured John Wyndham's "The Living Lies", under his John Beynon alias, and "Inheritance", an early story by Arthur C. Clarke. "Escapement" by J. G. Ballard appeared in the December 1956 issue; this was Ballard's first professionally published work, and he went on to become a significant figure in science fiction in the 1960s. After 1964, when Michael Moorcock became editor, the magazine featured experimental and avant-garde material, and it became the focus of the modernist New Wave of science fiction. Reaction among the science ficti...

Everything We Definitely Know About 'The Room's Tommy Wiseau

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Everything We Definitely Know About 'The Room's Tommy Wiseau

Everything We Definitely Know About 'The Room's Tommy Wiseau

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Everything We Definitely Know About 'The Room's Tommy Wiseau Tommy Wiseau directed the legendarily awful 2003 motion picture "The Room"; this we know for certain. Beyond that, things start to get murky.

Article of the day for November 25, 2017

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Article of the day is New Worlds (magazine). Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Picture of the day for November 25, 2017

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Picture of the day on November 25, 2017: An immature male bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae), the smallest bird in the world - it weighs only 1.6 grams. It is endemic to Cuba. Today is the first anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro, President of Cuba for over 31 years.

biennium: Word of the day for November 25, 2017

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Word of the day is biennium : A period of two years. Today is the eve of the closing of the 2017 Venice Biennale.