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Fiction is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones.
On This Day in History: November 17
1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1776: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson dies.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born. A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
Dramatis Personae
GNOMON CHRONICLES
Culvert Origenes and The Governess
2017: The Custodian 2
Skip Digits, Conductor
The Safe-Cracker
Albert Einstein and Alice Beta develop new technology for predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants
Havelock and Nikola Tesla conduct research into electrical field modulation and data transmission
Baron Zersetzung and The Eel fight in a gambling den
The Eel and Radium Jane engage in epic arm-wrestling match to determine outcome of wager
For DC comics:
Rafael Volante (original character for the DC Comics universe)
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