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1201: Canterbury scrying engine retrofitted with Gnomon algorithm routines.
1569: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses Gnomon algorithm functions make improved astronomical observations.
1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1972: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by supervillain Gnotilus.
2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

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 File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen in broad daylight by supervillain [[Gnotilus]].
 File:Marvin Minsky.jpg|link=Marvin Minsky (nonfiction)|2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher [[Marvin Minsky (nonfiction)|Marvin Minsky]] dies.
+File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
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