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Fiction is an ongoing work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones.
On This Day in History: September 28
1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. Kruskal will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
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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.
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