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||2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola| | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|Image of [[Cantor Parabola]] contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis. | ||
|File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] patrols shipping lanes, vows to strafe [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]]. | |File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] patrols shipping lanes, vows to strafe [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]]. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Image of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.