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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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{{Better Than News/February 29}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
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== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/February 29}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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{{Are You Sure/February 29}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/February 29}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


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Latest revision as of 14:49, 19 February 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that American inventor Herman Hollerith developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting; and that Hollerith founded The Tabulating Machine Company, which was consolidated in 1911 with three other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later renamed IBM?

• ... that Quantum of Software is a 2008 spy film about an MI6 software developer (Daniel Craig) who must stop an advanced quantum computer (Colossus) from staging a global coup d'état; and that the film co-stars Ada Lovelace as M?

Topic of the Day

Richard Nixon