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• ... that mathematician '''[[Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|Werner Fenchel]]''' established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming?
• ... that '''''[[Break In at Tiffany's]]''''' is a 1961 American romantic heist film directed about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker?
• ... that '''''[[Break In at Tiffany's]]''''' is a 1961 American romantic heist film directed about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker?


• ...that physicist and glassblower '''[[Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|Heinrich Geissler]]''' (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler) invented the Geissler tube, an early low pressure gas-discharge tube?
• ...that mathematician '''[[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]]''' discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry?


• ... that '''''[[Big Trouble on Little Tatooine]]''''' is a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series?
• ... that '''''[[Big Trouble on Little Tatooine]]''''' is a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series?


• ... that mathematician '''[[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]]''' was quoted by Heinrich Martin Weber (1893) as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk", commonly translated as "God made the integers, all else is the work of man"?
• ... that CIA officer and author [[E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|E. Howard Hunt]] plotted the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate burglaries]] and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration?

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• ... that Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film directed about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker?

• ...that mathematician David Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry?

• ... that Big Trouble on Little Tatooine is a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series?

• ... that CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration?