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== Dominique Jean Larrey ==
== July 27: On This Day in History ==
 
[[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] (French: [larɛ]; 8 July 1766 – 25 July 1842) was a French surgeon in Napoleon's Grand Armée and an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage. He is often considered the first modern military surgeon.
 
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File:Dominique Jean Larrey 2.jpg|[[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]].
File:Larrey amputating the arm and leg of colonel Rebsomen at Hanau (1813).jpg|Larrey amputating the arm and leg of colonel Rebsomen at Hanau (1813).
File:Ambulance_volante_du_modèle_Larrey.jpg|Ambulence volante du modèle Larrey.
File:Bronze_statue_of_Larrey.jpg|Bronze statue of Dominique Jean Larrey by David d'Angers (1843) standing in the courtyard outside the Val-de-Grâce military hospital.
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|Asclepius Myrmidon goes back in time to document Dominique Larrey's career.
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== Comics About Copyright ==


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File:THEFT A History of Music.jpg|link=THEFT: A History of Music (nonfiction)|''[[THEFT: A History of Music (nonfiction)|THEFT: A History of Music]]'' - comic book about music and copyright law.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1973: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes advance photographs of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voting to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Nixon.
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== Pulizter Prize ==
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.


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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1974: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] says that "it's about time the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against Nixon."
File:Judge Havelock With Glass.jpg|link=Judge Havelock With Glass|2017: ''[[Judge Havelock With Glass]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."
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== Neptune Slaughter News ==
 
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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1551: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
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== The Panthéon ==
 
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File:Panthéon.jpg|link=Panthéon (nonfiction)|Building of Interest: The [[Panthéon (nonfiction)|Panthéon]].
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Revision as of 20:58, 21 July 2017

Notes to discuss with Greg Nesbitt (nonfiction).

See Nesbitt notes (archive) for older notes.

July 27: On This Day in History

Matt Farthing pix

The Realist