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StoneRed

The StoneRed project (SR) is a wide-area curiosity retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to one interesting document per day.

Everything there is online about SR is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, the document archive, today's SR news and other appearances.

Today's document: The one interesting thing for Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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The Screening Room / Strange Earth

The Year the Sun Turned Black

99 minutes · Colour

[FILM: The Year the Sun Turned Black]

In AD 536 a mysterious fog darkened the sky for months and famine followed. What caused it?

Streaming from YouTube, from the producer’s or official distributor’s own account. Watch it there ↗

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COLOUR52 min Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire2019 · NOVA (PBS)

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COLOUR44 min Hunt for the Giant SquidNat Geo Animals

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