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Matango:Attack Of the Mushroom People

This 1963 film gained something of a bad film cult reputation after showing up on U.S. late night television in dubbed form during the sixties and seventies. Director Ishiro Honda who was behind many of the classic Japanese monster movies of the time such as Godzilla, Rodan, Baran and others used this genre as a form of sneaky social criticism.
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Ancient Greek Computer?

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets by Derek J. de Solla Price.
I saw a great documentary about this, and how it was x-rayed and replicated.
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