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File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|2016: ''[[The Shovel]]'' depicts [[The Custodian]] in the act of reversing contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|2016: ''[[The Shovel]]'' depicts [[The Custodian]] in the act of reversing contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | ||
File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for five hundred thousand dollars. | |File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for five hundred thousand dollars. | ||
File:Fire Dance.jpg|link=Fire Dance (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Fire Dance (nonfiction)|Fire Dance]]'' reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of [[Red (nonfiction)|red]]. | |||
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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1833: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
2016: The Shovel depicts The Custodian in the act of reversing contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Fire Dance reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of red.