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Try: [[Dramatis Personae]], [[Special:Random|Random page]], [[Special | Try: [[Dramatis Personae]], [[Special:Random|Random page]], [[index.php?namespace=0&days=14&limit=250&title=Special%3ARecentChanges|Recent changes]], [[Special:Categories|Categories]], [[Special:AllPages|All pages]], and [[Special:Search|Search]]. | ||
Also: [[Minicon 54 (nonfiction)#The_Great_Nerd_Giveaway|The Great Nerd Giveaway]]. | Also: [[Minicon 54 (nonfiction)#The_Great_Nerd_Giveaway|The Great Nerd Giveaway]]. |
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Gnomon Chronicles 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.
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Also: The Great Nerd Giveaway.