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1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci writes a letter to Johannes Engel, suggesting the need for an almanac of crimes against astronomical constants.
1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore telegraph machine in Paris.
1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington builds new type of scrying engine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1997: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
2017: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian captures supervillain Fugitive Rubies.

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 ||1998: Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. Pic.
+||2008: Frederick Seitz dies ... physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics. Pic.
 File:Niles Cartouchian interrogates Fugitive Rubies.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|2017: Famed gem detective [[Niles Cartouchian]] captures supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]].