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Fiction is a work of fiction and nonfiction.

If it says "Nonfiction", it is nonfiction. I am scrupulous about this: no fiction in the nonfiction.

Page titles that end in "(nonfiction)" have nonfictional content in the first part of the page. Links in nonfiction content always link to "(nonfiction)" pages, although "(nonfiction)" is frequently omitted from the link text, for readability.

Sections labelled "Nonfiction cross-reference" contain only links to "(nonfiction)" pages.

Everything else is subject to the fictions of my imagination.

In many cases, links which point to "(nonfiction)" pages omit "(nonfiction)" from the link text.

On This Day in History: June 29

1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit Angelo Secchi born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2010: Chemist Marc Julia dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.