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• ... that | • ... that physician and archaeologist '''[[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]]''' (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones? | ||
• ... that physicist '''[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]]''' (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) discovered superconductivity in 1911, writing in his notebook on April 8: ''Kwik nagenoeg nul'' ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K]."). | |||
• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor '''[[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]]''' (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand? | |||
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• ... that physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones?
• ... that physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) discovered superconductivity in 1911, writing in his notebook on April 8: Kwik nagenoeg nul ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").
• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand?