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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.
Most everything else is subject to the fictions of my imagination.
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.
Dramatis Personae
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.
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Those parts of Fiction which are copyrightable are copyright by Karl Jones (nonfiction). Where not copyrightable, I have made some effort to say why, and give credit where credit is due.