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||2010: Floris Takens dies ... mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic. | ||2010: Floris Takens dies ... mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic. | ||
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2010: | File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2010: A self-sustaining colony of [[transdimensional corporations]] is accidentally released from an unlicensed [[Extract of Radium]] factory. [[APTO]] investigators will later determine that the factory was manufacturing illegal [[transdimensional drugs]], including [[clandestiphrine]]. | ||
||2011: Professor He Zehui dies ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic. | ||2011: Professor He Zehui dies ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic. | ||
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1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and built several hand-powered submarines.
1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" Wallace War-Heels says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times."
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
2010: A self-sustaining colony of transdimensional corporations is accidentally released from an unlicensed Extract of Radium factory. APTO investigators will later determine that the factory was manufacturing illegal transdimensional drugs, including clandestiphrine.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Ursa Nano reveals a previously unknown shade of blue, "probably as a result of latest cryptographic numina."