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Fiction is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones.
On This Day in History: June 26
1274: Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies. Tusi was a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.
1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
Dramatis Personae
Scenes
The Eel and Radium Jane engage in epic arm-wrestling match to determine outcome of wager.
About Fiction
Sections of text marked "(nonfiction)" are nonfiction, and can be trusted as nonfiction.
All other sections are my fictions, where I assert fictional facts, often interlaced with nonfictional facts.
See also: