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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature film of the Star Trek science fiction franchise and is the center of a three-film story arc that begins with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. After the death of Spock (Leonard Nimoy, pictured), the crew of the USS Enterprise returns to Earth. When James T. Kirk (William Shatner) learns that Spock's spirit is held in the mind of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Kirk and company steal the Enterprise to return Spock's body to his home planet. The crew must also contend with hostile Klingons, led by Kruge (Christopher Lloyd), bent on stealing the secrets of a powerful terraforming device. Paramount commissioned the film after positive critical and commercial reaction to The Wrath of Khan. Nimoy directed, the first Star Trek cast member to do so. Producer Harve Bennett wrote the script starting from the end and working back, and intended the destruction of the Enterprise to be a shocking development. The film grossed $76 million at the domestic box office and a total of $87 million worldwide. Critical reaction to The Search for Spock was mixed to positive. Reviewers generally praised the cast and characters, while criticism tended to focus on the plot; the special effects were conflictingly received. Roger Ebert called the film a compromise between the tones of the first and second Star Trek films. (more...)

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18:00, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

... that Sue Sarafian Jehl (pictured), who served as Dwight Eisenhower's personal assistant, said the famous general believed women made efficient officers?
... that the region of Kastrati was awarded to Montenegro in 1878 under the Treaty of San Stefano, but the subsequent Treaty of Berlin restored it to the Ottoman Empire?
... that Hollis Dow Hedberg led the Gulf Oil Corporation's geological operations in San Tomé and eastern Venezuela?
... that Czech manager Leoš Kalvoda led Slovak football club MŠK Žilina to their first ever league title in 2002?
... that in 1912 Taraknath Palit donated money and property worth ₹15 lakh (US$18,000) to Calcutta University for the establishment of University College of Science and Technology?
... that Japanese tennis player Fumiteru Nakano reached the fourth round of the men's singles at the 1938 French Championships, a result that was not achieved again by a Japanese man until 2013?
... that author Colum McCann described the subject of his 2003 novel Dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, as "a monster"?

10:15, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

... that the Old Fresno Water Tower (pictured) was originally designed to house a library?
... that seismologist Harry O. Wood was employed by the Carnegie Institution for Science to establish a small seismic network that eventually grew into the Caltech Seismological Laboratory?
... that the Swiss National Bank engaged in gold laundering during World War II, transferring Nazi gold through a network of central banks?
... that midwife Ruby Dediya, the first woman elected to the Parliament of Nauru, was its only female member in history of the country until 2013?
... that Edward John Thompson's critical biography of Rabindranath Tagore earned him a PhD from the University of London and displeasure from his subject?
... that the pilot episode of the TV series Grimm earned higher ratings than any American TV show on a Friday since New Year's Eve of 2010?
... that Grover Cleveland's 1888 running mate collapsed twice during the presidential campaign?

02:30, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

... that after the famine in North Korea, a potato revolution (potato mound pictured) began?
... that Eugene Chelyshev was the first Russian to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship by the Government of India in 2004?
... that after shooting a few scenes in Meendum Kokila, Rekha pulled out of the film citing no reason?
... that Sir Robert Broughton was made a Knight of the Bath in 1478 at the marriage of the four-year-old Richard, Duke of York, one of the two princes later said to have been murdered in the Tower of London?
... that Singaporean businesswoman Margaret Heng is the CEO of Shatec, a hospitality-training school where she was initially an administrator?
... that Penelope, Viscountess Cobham, is known as the "Quango Queen" due to her involvement in many quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations?
... that Plaza Rajah Sulayman in Manila, which was once a bathing area, is now considered the city's lovers' lane?

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1934 – The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia.
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Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925–90) was an American entertainer who worked primarily as a dancer and singer, but was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities. He entered the entertainment industry at age three, later forming the Will Mastin Trio with his father Sammy Davis, Sr. and Will Mastin. In 1933 he made his feature film debut in Rufus Jones for President. The younger Davis found fame in 1951, and in 1959 became a member of the Rat Pack beginning with the film Ocean's 11. Davis won multiple Grammy and Emmy Awards during his career.

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