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Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones with stories and illusrations by Greg Nesbitt.

1633: Astronomer and academic Geminiano Montanari born. He will make the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1849: Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
1867: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt dies. He used synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.
1895: Havelock and Herman Hollerith announce plan to collaborate on new data exchange protocol.
1890: The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1944: First successful run of the improved Colossus Mark 2 computer], just in time for the Normandy landings on D-Day. Colossus Mark 2 used shift registers to quintuple the processing speed.

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	'''''Gnomon Chronicles''''' is a work of [[fiction (nonfiction)\|fiction]] and [[nonfiction (nonfiction)\|nonfiction]] by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)\|Karl Jones]].		'''''Gnomon Chronicles''''' is a work of [[fiction (nonfiction)\|fiction]] and [[nonfiction (nonfiction)\|nonfiction]] by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)\|Karl Jones]] with stories and illusrations by [[Greg Nesbitt (nonfiction)\|Greg Nesbitt]].

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