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[[File:Menger sponge.png|thumb|175px|link=Menger sponge (nonfiction)|The [[Menger sponge (nonfiction)|Menger sponge]], a fractal curve which is a three-dimensional generalization of the one-dimensional [[Cantor set (nonfiction)|Cantor set]] and two-dimensional [[Menger sponge (nonfiction)|Sierpinski carpet]].]]
• ... that mathematician '''[[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]]''' discovered the [[Menger sponge (nonfiction)|Menger sponge]], a three-dimensional version of [[Sierpinski carpet (nonfiction)|Sierpinski's carpet]], and that both the Menger sponge and Sierpinski's carpet are related to the [[Cantor set (nonfiction)|Cantor set]]?
 
• ... that mathematician '''[[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]]''' discovered the [[Menger sponge (nonfiction)|Menger sponge]], a three-dimensional version of [[Sierpinski carpet (nonfiction)|Sierpinski's carpet]], and that both the Menger sponge and Sierpinski's carpet are related to the [[Cantor set (nonfiction)|Cantor set]]?<br>


• ... that particle physicists [[Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|Val Fitch]] and [[James Cronin (nonfiction)|James Cronin]] discovered '''[[CP violation (nonfiction)|CP violation]]''' by demonstrating that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles, thus showing that particles are not indifferent to time?
• ... that particle physicists [[Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|Val Fitch]] and [[James Cronin (nonfiction)|James Cronin]] discovered '''[[CP violation (nonfiction)|CP violation]]''' by demonstrating that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles, thus showing that particles are not indifferent to time?


• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]]''', best known for his pioneering work on Bose–Einstein condensates, was a self-taught scholar and polymath whose interests included biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music?<br>
• ... that '''''[[Two Men Who Fell to Earth]]''''' is a 1983 British-American film directed by David Bowie?


• ... that '''''[[Magia Naturalis (nonfiction)|Magia Naturalis Gnomonicum]]''''' is a work of pre-Baconian science by polymath [[Giambattista della Porta (nonfiction)|Giambattista della Porta]], first published in Naples in 1558, and that its two-hundred and fifty-six books include observations upon optics, [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]], metallurgy, magnetism, [[jesticules]], medicines, poisons, cooking, perfumes, [[corinthium]], gunpowder, invisible writing, and [[cryptographic numina]]?
• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]]''', best known for his pioneering work on Bose–Einstein condensates, was a self-taught scholar and polymath whose interests included biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music?

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• ... that mathematician Karl Menger discovered the Menger sponge, a three-dimensional version of Sierpinski's carpet, and that both the Menger sponge and Sierpinski's carpet are related to the Cantor set?

• ... that particle physicists Val Fitch and James Cronin discovered CP violation by demonstrating that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles, thus showing that particles are not indifferent to time?

• ... that Two Men Who Fell to Earth is a 1983 British-American film directed by David Bowie?

• ... that theoretical physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, best known for his pioneering work on Bose–Einstein condensates, was a self-taught scholar and polymath whose interests included biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music?