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||2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
||2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color [[Violet (nonfiction)]].


||Michel Marie Deza (d. 23 November 2016) was a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.
||Michel Marie Deza (d. 23 November 2016) was a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.


|File:Codd neck bottles.jpg|link=Codd-neck bottle (nonfiction)|[[Codd-neck bottle (nonfiction)|Codd-neck bottles]] making comeback, say Codd-neck bottle industry spokespeople.
|File:Madge_Palmolive.jpg|Consumer spokespersona says "[[geometry solvent]]" is nothing more than dish soap plus [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:Epic of Gilgamesh tablet V.jpg|link=Literature (nonfiction)|[[Literature (nonfiction)|Gilgamesh tablet]] grumpy about missing sections, demands [[high-energy literature]] therapy.
|File:Cherenkov-radiation Advanced-Test-Reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|[[High-energy literature]] may cause [[Literature (nonfiction)|Gilgamesh tablet]] more harm than good, according to aggregated reader reviews.
|File:Roman dodecahedron.jpg|link=Roman dodecahedron (nonfiction)|[[Roman dodecahedron (nonfiction)|Roman dodecahedra]] used as [[Polyhedral dice (nonfiction)|polyhedral dice]].
|File:Dungeons and Dragons game.jpg|link=Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|[[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] players invite [[Roman dodecahedron (nonfiction)|Roman dodecahedron]] to join party.
|File:Polyhedra.jpg|link=Polyhedron (nonfiction)|[[Polyhedron (nonfiction)|Polyhedra support group]] offers counseling services to victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Euclid Lueneburg ms page 8.jpg|link=Mathematical diagram (nonfiction)|Ancient manuscript is actually [[Mathematical diagram (nonfiction)|secret diary of Euclid]], says supervillain [[Abomynous]].
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  • 1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

    1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

  • 1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

    1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

  • 1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

    1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color Violet (nonfiction).

    2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color Violet (nonfiction).

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