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||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1581: Philosopher and alleged time-traveller [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]], known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, publishes new theory predicting the existence of [[high-energy literature]].


||1611: Simon Forman dies ... occultist and astrologer. Pic (fierce!).
||1611: Simon Forman dies ... occultist and astrologer. Pic (fierce!).
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||2016: Ali Javan dies ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
||2016: Ali Javan dies ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.
File:Green Sprouts.jpg|link=Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|Green Sprouts]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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