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• ... that Jesuit priest, mathematician, and astronomer '''[[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]]''' became the first European to enter the Forbidden City of Beijing in 1601 when he was invited to become an adviser to the imperial court of the Wanli Emperor; and that this honor was in recognition of Ricci's scientific abilities, chiefly his predictions of solar eclipses, which were significant events in the Chinese world; and that Ricci was given free access to the Forbidden City but never met the reclusive Wanli Emperor, who, however, granted him patronage, with a generous stipend and supported Ricci's completion of the Zhifang Waiji, China's first global atlas?
• ... that Jesuit priest, mathematician, and astronomer '''[[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]]''' became the first European to enter the Forbidden City of Beijing in 1601 when he was invited to become an adviser to the imperial court of the Wanli Emperor; and that this honor was in recognition of Ricci's scientific abilities, chiefly his predictions of solar eclipses, which were significant events in the Chinese world; and that Ricci was given free access to the Forbidden City but never met the reclusive Wanli Emperor, who, however, granted him patronage, with a generous stipend and supported Ricci's completion of the Zhifang Waiji, China's first global atlas?


• ... that '''''[[I Am Joe's Antenna]]''''' is the [[Autobiography (nonfiction)|autobiography]] of an evolved antenna embedded in the skull of a man known only by the pseudonym Joe, and that the autobiography was commissioned by ''[[Reader's Digest (nonfcition)|Reader's Digest]]'' in joint venture with [[Extract of Radium]]?
• ... that both '''[[Teilhard Cider]]''' and '''[[Piltdown Man Porter]]''' pay homage to Teilhard de Chardin?
 
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• ... that Jesuit priest, mathematician, and astronomer Matteo Ricci became the first European to enter the Forbidden City of Beijing in 1601 when he was invited to become an adviser to the imperial court of the Wanli Emperor; and that this honor was in recognition of Ricci's scientific abilities, chiefly his predictions of solar eclipses, which were significant events in the Chinese world; and that Ricci was given free access to the Forbidden City but never met the reclusive Wanli Emperor, who, however, granted him patronage, with a generous stipend and supported Ricci's completion of the Zhifang Waiji, China's first global atlas?

• ... that both Teilhard Cider and Piltdown Man Porter pay homage to Teilhard de Chardin?

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