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File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | ||
File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States. | File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States. | ||
File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1972: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. | |||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
File:Luminous dial of Soviet aircraft chronometer.jpg|link=Chronometer (nonfiction)|Luminous dial of Soviet aircraft [[Chronometer (nonfiction)|chronometer]] proud to represent all [[Chronometer (nonfiction)|chronometers]]. | File:Luminous dial of Soviet aircraft chronometer.jpg|link=Chronometer (nonfiction)|Luminous dial of Soviet aircraft [[Chronometer (nonfiction)|chronometer]] proud to represent all [[Chronometer (nonfiction)|chronometers]]. | ||
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1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
1972: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
Luminous dial of Soviet aircraft chronometer proud to represent all chronometers.
Tiny spacecraft with alien "Happy Ending" software converts human sweat into Extract of Radium.
Red-limned Sea Quetzalcoatl disguised as Tree of Life.
Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus formally announce new crime team dedicated to inventing new classes of crimes against mathematical constants.
Angry Feller expresses anger.
Dinosaur develops algorithm for Chicxulub Chips.
