Template:Selected anniversaries/November 5: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1975: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. | File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1975: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. | ||
File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]]. | File:Electric S'mores in Brasília.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|2016: [[Electric S'mores]] opens for business in Brasília. | ||
|File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]]. | |||
|File:Hopalong_Takes_Command.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Art thieves frame [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]] for crimes of [[Hopalong Perfidy]]. | |File:Hopalong_Takes_Command.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Art thieves frame [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]] for crimes of [[Hopalong Perfidy]]. | ||
|File:Paraffin.jpg|link=Wax (nonfiction)|[[Wax (nonfiction)|Wax golem chow]] tastes better than it looks. | |File:Paraffin.jpg|link=Wax (nonfiction)|[[Wax (nonfiction)|Wax golem chow]] tastes better than it looks. | ||
| Line 12: | Line 14: | ||
|File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=kinetoscope (nonfiction)|[[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] overcomes sense of shame, reveals interior. | |File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=kinetoscope (nonfiction)|[[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] overcomes sense of shame, reveals interior. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 08:04, 13 August 2017
1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
2016: Electric S'mores opens for business in Brasília.