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== Characters with palm held up ==
== Phalavan Mustafa Toosi ==  


To do, series of full-height character drawings with one hand held palm-up, like [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] (without [[TRIAGE]]):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phalavan_Mustafa_Toosi.jpg


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== Kishōtenketsu ==
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon
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The other hand may be variously expressive from character to character.
* [[Kishōtenketsu (nonfiction)]]
 
== HUAC and Alice Beta ==
 
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File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|While newsmen take notes, Chairman Dies of [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Committee investigating Un-American activities]], proofs and reads his statement replying to [[Alice Beta]]'s attack on the Committee (Oct. 26, 1938).
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] says she stands by every word that she has written about the House Un-American Activities Committee and the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC program]].
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== Richard Sharpe Shaver ==
 
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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:Shaver Mystery Amazing Stories.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|The June 1947 issue of ''Amazing Stories'' featured the "Shaver Mystery" by [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]].
 
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== July 22: On This Day in History ==
 
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File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres.
 
File:Niles Cartouchian.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1827: Gem detective and astronomer [[Niles Cartouchian]] discovers [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] on the dwarf planet Ceres.
 
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== July 27: On This Day in History ==
 
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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.
 
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.
 
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1974: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] says that "it's about time the House Judiciary Committee got busy impeaching Nixon."
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== Matt Farthing pix ==
 
* https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159122474760515&set=a.10151883447450515.871572.617480514&type=3&theater
 
== The Realist ==
 
* http://boingboing.net/2017/05/26/mizrahi-family-circus.html

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