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||File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''. | ||File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''. | ||
File:Three Kings.jpg|link=Three Kings (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Three Kings (nonfiction)|Three Kings]]'' stolen from the New MIA in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Killer Poke]] gang. | File:Three Kings.jpg|link=Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|Three Kings 3]]'' stolen from the New MIA in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Killer Poke]] gang. | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings 3 stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.