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File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1898: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1898: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead. | ||
File:Crossword.png|link=Crossword (nonfiction)|1931: [[Crossword (nonfiction)|crossword puzzle]] used in [[scrying engine]] for the first time. | File:Crossword.png|link=Crossword (nonfiction)|1931: [[Crossword (nonfiction)|crossword puzzle]] used in [[scrying engine]] for the first time. | ||
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1931: crossword puzzle used in scrying engine for the first time.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.