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File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | ||
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. | File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. | ||
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. | |||
File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]]. | File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]]. | ||
File:Hopalong_Takes_Command.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Art thieves frame [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]] for crimes of [[Hopalong Perfidy]]. | |File:Hopalong_Takes_Command.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Art thieves frame [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]] for crimes of [[Hopalong Perfidy]]. | ||
File:Paraffin.jpg|link=Wax (nonfiction)|[[Wax (nonfiction)|Wax golem chow]] tastes better than it looks. | |File:Paraffin.jpg|link=Wax (nonfiction)|[[Wax (nonfiction)|Wax golem chow]] tastes better than it looks. | ||
File:Bread_mold_flavor,_best_flavor,_crazy_talk.png|link=Bread mold flavor (nonfiction)|[[Venn diagram (nonfiction)|Venn diagram]] computes the [[Bread mold flavor (nonfiction)|intersection of "Bread mold flavor", "Best flavor", and "Crazy talk"]]. | |File:Bread_mold_flavor,_best_flavor,_crazy_talk.png|link=Bread mold flavor (nonfiction)|[[Venn diagram (nonfiction)|Venn diagram]] computes the [[Bread mold flavor (nonfiction)|intersection of "Bread mold flavor", "Best flavor", and "Crazy talk"]]. | ||
File:Three Kings baby birds.jpg|Poetry ensemble [[Three Baby Birds]] to perform their best known work, ''Hungry Morning'', at Kennedy Center for the Arts. | |File:Three Kings baby birds.jpg|Poetry ensemble [[Three Baby Birds]] to perform their best known work, ''Hungry Morning'', at Kennedy Center for the Arts. | ||
File:Fenestraria aurantica.jpg|link=Fenestraria (nonfiction)|''[[Fenestraria (nonfiction)|Fenestraria]]'' produces optical fibers, transmits light to subterranean photosynthetic sites. | |File:Fenestraria aurantica.jpg|link=Fenestraria (nonfiction)|''[[Fenestraria (nonfiction)|Fenestraria]]'' produces optical fibers, transmits light to subterranean photosynthetic sites. | ||
File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=kinetoscope (nonfiction)|[[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] overcomes sense of shame, reveals interior. | |File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=kinetoscope (nonfiction)|[[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] overcomes sense of shame, reveals interior. | ||
File:Electric S'mores in Brasília.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|[[Electric S'mores]] | File:Electric S'mores in Brasília.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|2016: [[Electric S'mores]] opens for business in Brasília. | ||
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Revision as of 06:16, 23 July 2017
1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at Hopalong Cassidy.
2016: Electric S'mores opens for business in Brasília.