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Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1125: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes new program in celebration of Christmas. | Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1125: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes new program in celebration of Christmas. | ||
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. | File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. | ||
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File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]]. | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]]. | ||
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' is "the perfect Christmas Gift", according to public statement from [[Vandal Savage Press]]. | File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' is "the perfect Christmas Gift", according to public statement from [[Vandal Savage Press]]. | ||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|[[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] wishes you a Merry Christmas. | File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. | ||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] wishes you a Merry Christmas. | |||
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Revision as of 18:19, 17 March 2017
1125: Canterbury scrying engine computes new program in celebration of Christmas.
1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
1956: John Brunner uses scrying engine to extract cryptographic numen from Hellscreiber transmissions.
1964: The Hal Jordan Playbook is "the perfect Christmas Gift", according to public statement from Vandal Savage Press.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
2017: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association wishes you a Merry Christmas.