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Are You Sure ... (April 6)
• ... that mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals?
• ... that computer scientist Anita Borg (17 January 1949 – 6 April 2003) founded the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology?
• ... that comic book artist Gil Kane (6 April 1926 – 31 January 2000) co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics?
• ... that painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) is widely regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist, and that his vast body of work include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings?
• ... that Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjuncts to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens?
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On This Day in History and Fiction
1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.
1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.
1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).
1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.