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[[File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|thumb|175px|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|"Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."<br><br>—J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967)]]
• ... that polymath '''[[Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (nonfiction)|Nasir al-Din al-Tusi]]''' born established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right?


• ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician '''[[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]]''' Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (''jadhb''): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"?
• ... that singer-physicist '''[[J._Robert_Oppenheimer_(nonfiction)|J. R. Oppenheimer]]''' performed his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee?
 
• ... that mathematician '''[[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]]''' formalized the definition of the [[Continuous function (nonfiction)|continuity of a function]], proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals?
 
• ... that mathematician  cryptographer, diplomat, translator, and alchemist [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]] invented an autokey cipher in (1586), and that the similar but distinct "Vigenère cipher" was in fact first described by [[Giovan Battista Bellaso (nonfiction)|Giovan Battista Bellaso]] in his 1553 book ''La cifra del. Sig. Giovan Battista Bellaso'', being misattributed to de Vigenère in the 19th century?

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• ... that polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi born established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right?

• ... that singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performed his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee?

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