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File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]]. | File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]]. | ||
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere. | File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere. | ||
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1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which "forecast the emergence of Project MKUltra within a year."
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.