From: The Fly (1980), dir. Ferenc Rofusz, Pannonia Film Studio

Stalingrad was liberated on this day in 1943. "Wave after wave of German assaults came within an inch of taking the whole city and were stopped each time as the Red Army.. counter-attacked and kept a sector of their city - a factory, a bridgehead - free." versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

Stellar sketch from Sphaera Mundi, 1620, by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giuseppe Biancani: “Illustration locates stars by the antarctic circle. They are not shown as embedded in the sphere of the fixed stars. This early depiction of the constellation of the southern cross shows it

“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.” ― Henri Matisse

The concept of a Sentient Sun

24-hour development and flaring of sunspot region 4366 – more and more coronal loops and dense core filaments are appearing.

The mesmerizing kinetic sculpture known as "Wonder" created by artist Tom Lawton.

In the North West corner of Potsdamer Platz, at the entrance to the DB building is an almost forgotten relic of WW2. An original, shrapnel scarred S Bahn sign which stood at the station entrance in a once beautiful part of the city, later ravaged by WW2 and the Cold War.

Congrats "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 An absurd comedy with the main character lost in time, disjointed in settings & confused by their surroundings, mirroring that strange

Once upon a time, Roman priests (augurs) would watch the patterns of starlings to determine the will of the gods before making major decisions, such as going to battle.

Musician Norm Oxman composed a song for his late cat, "Sympawny no.4 (Chubby Cat)." It reflects the image of the cat. A composer's musical portrait honoring deceased pets worldwide.

Curiosity Viking took the first Martain sunset images 50 years ago in 1976.

5 February 1945 Special Operations Executive agents Violette Szabo, Denise Bloch and Lilian Rolfe are executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp.

A charming little film from 1957 of a postman doing his daily rounds on his horse across Dartmoor. Delivering letters to farms and cottages with his dog by his side.

Olga Mironova was a 17 year old musical theater student who got a lead role in the masterpiece COME AND SEE She never acted again, and her whereabouts are unknown, but she was incredible in the film as was everyone. One of the few bright spots in this devastating movie.

KIRK DOUGLAS — who died 6yrs ago today, aged 103 — talks about his love of Westerns in pretty much perfect French in 1967.

5 February 1945 | A group of over 30 volunteers from the Polish Red Cross, including doctors and nurses, arrived from Krakow to the site of the liberated Auschwitz camp. They established a hospital where they provided care for several thousand sick Survivors. This hospital

Finding Resonance, Finding María Lugones soundstudiesblog.com/2025/11/03/fin… via Sounding Out! (we're done here folks, it's awful) On grieving -- and hauntings -- as sonic experiences: "I have described María’s death as a haunting—as something that haunts me. I defined this haunting as a physical presence that I could not

ORSON WELLES at a Paris press conference in 1982 calling Oscar-winning director ELIA KAZAN a traitor for giving Joseph McCarthy the names of colleagues who were Communist Party members and subsequently blacklisted as a result of Kazan’s actions.

Andrei Tarkovsky on the problems he had with Sci-fi movies— especially Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) & how he intended to make 'Solaris' (1972): "Interviewer: The majority of directors of science-fiction movies think it necessary to impress the viewer's