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== Better Than News ==


<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:140%">On This Day in History and Fiction: January 16</span>
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{{Selected anniversaries/January 16}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
 
{{Beyond Plausible/January 16}}
 
== In Other Words ==
 
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== Are You Sure ==
 
{{Are You Sure/January 16}}
 
== Topic of the Day ==
 
{{Daily Favorites/January 16}}

Latest revision as of 09:22, 1 August 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that the reverse engineering of cryptographic numina occasionally causes bursts of pink light, the nature of which has never been explained?

• ... that writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía's Silva de varia lección ("A Miscellany of Several Lessons") (1540), an encyclopedic miscellany or mixture of subjects of interest across the diverse repertoire of humanistic knowledge of the time, became an early best seller across Europe?

• ... that mathematician and computer scientist Tom Kilburn led the development of a succession of innovative Manchester computers that incorporated a host of ground-breaking innovations and developments, including the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial computer, and the Atlas, one of the first time-sharing multiprocessing computers that incorporated job scheduling, spooling, interrupts, pipelining and paging?

Topic of the Day

The Beatles