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||1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785)
||1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785)


File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1872: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].
}File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1872: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].


||1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
||1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
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||1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
||1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1944: [[Extract of Radium]] distributor and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] programs the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory to fatally irradiate physicist and crime-fighter [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]].


File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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