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[[File:Giant Red Ball in Toledo Ohio.jpg|thumb|175px|link=Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|2015: New study of the [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|Toledo giant red ball incident]] blames the [[Red (nonfiction)|color red]]:<br><br>"Of all of the colors visible to optotypical humans, red is the most likely to spontaneously generate [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]] in hollow spheres, which can quickly manifest itself as breaking away and rolling down the street."]]
• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]]''' (1858–1947) took singing lessons and played piano, organ and cello, and composed songs and operas, but chose to study physics rather than music, and later was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering contributions to [[Quantum mechanics (nonfiction)|quantum physics]]?


• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]]''' (1858–1947), whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, took singing lessons and played piano, organ and cello, and composed songs and operas, but chose to study physics rather than music?
• ... that '''''[[World War X]]''''' is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic?


• ... that inventor '''[[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hebern]]''' (1869–1952) was an early designer and manufacturer of rotor encryption machines;  that his implementation of his idea was less secure than he believed, because [[William F. Friedman (nonfiction)|William F. Friedman]] found at least one method of attack when it was offered to the US Government; and that Hebern's company did not prosper, his promotional efforts for it were questioned, and he was tried and convicted for fraud?
• ... that inventor '''[[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hebern]]''' (1869–1952) was an early designer and manufacturer of rotor encryption machines;  that when Herbern tried to sell his equipment to the US Government, [[William F. Friedman (nonfiction)|William F. Friedman]] found at least one method of attack; and that Hebern's company did not prosper, his promotional efforts for it were questioned, and he was tried and convicted for fraud?
 
• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]]''' (1561–1656) introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions ''tangent'' and ''secant'' in his book ''Geometria rotundi'' (1583)?
 
• ... that computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist '''[[Annie J. Easley (nonfiction)|Annie J. Easley]]''' (1933–2011) had a 34-year career with NASA (and its precessor) working on critical technical problems, yet despite her long career and numerous contributions to research, she was cut out of NASA's promotional photos?

Latest revision as of 02:58, 23 April 2022

• ... that theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858–1947) took singing lessons and played piano, organ and cello, and composed songs and operas, but chose to study physics rather than music, and later was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering contributions to quantum physics?

• ... that World War X is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic?

• ... that inventor Edward Hebern (1869–1952) was an early designer and manufacturer of rotor encryption machines; that when Herbern tried to sell his equipment to the US Government, William F. Friedman found at least one method of attack; and that Hebern's company did not prosper, his promotional efforts for it were questioned, and he was tried and convicted for fraud?

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