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| File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|2017: ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' wins Newbery Award for Best Children's Book Cover of the Year.
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| File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2017: Signed first edition of ''The Safe-Cracker'' sells for ten million dollars.
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| File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|[[The Custodian|Custodian]] catch phrase: "Don't make me get the shovel." (Scene: shovel full of people in foreground, Custodian, Custodian doing the shoveling.)
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| File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.
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| In the News: Mir and AESOP:
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| File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as [[AESOP]] ("Artificial Expert System of Philosophy").
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| File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] ("Artificial Expert System of Philosophy") said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
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| From the [[Template:Selected anniversaries/July 20|July 20 "On This Day in History" template]]:
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| File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1889: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] alleges that [[Baron Zersetzung]] is "trafficking in [[Clandestiphrine]] and [[Extract of Radium]], to the detriment of clear and rational thought, relentless seeking to corrupt, usurp, and digest what remains of the Republic."
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| File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1977: [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)]]: The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
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| File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2017: [[Pin Man]] says he "was involved with [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)]]."
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| From the [[Template:Selected anniversaries/August 21|August 21 "On This Day in History" template]]:
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| File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1944: [[Extract of Radium]] distributor and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] programs the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory to fatally irradiate physicist and crime-fighter [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]].
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| File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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| File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1945: [[The Custodian]] stops [[Baron Zersetzung]] from stealing the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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| From the [[Template:Selected anniversaries/July 28|July 28 "On This Day in History" template]]:
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| File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | | File:The Taking of Pelham 3.1415.jpg|thumb|Image needed, movie poster for ''[[The Taking of Pelham 3.1415]]''. |
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| File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."
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| From the [[Template:Selected anniversaries/August 17|August 17 "On This Day in History" template]]:
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| File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born.
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| File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1930: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] begins shooting his film ''[[Spy Pilot]]''.
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| From the [[Template:Selected anniversaries/May 6|May 6 template]]:
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| File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1936: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the upcoming [[Hindenburg disaster (nonfiction)|Hindenburg disaster]].
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| File:Hindenburg disaster.jpg|link=Hindenburg disaster (nonfiction)|1937: [[Hindenburg disaster (nonfiction)|Hindenburg disaster]]: The German zeppelin ''Hindenburg'' catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
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| File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1938: ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating [[Egon Rhodomunde]]'s hunting lodge, allegedly searching for evidence of Rhodomunde's involvement with the [[Hindenburg disaster (nonfiction)|Hindenburg disaster]].
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| File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]].
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| File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
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| File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the Supreme Court justices murdered, as a lesson to the others."
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| File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] makes [[Skip Digits]] an offer he can't refuse.
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| File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits, Conductor|[[Skip Digits, Conductor|Skip Digits]] allegedly works for [[Baron Zersetzung]], using his [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math-stealing power]] to rob casinos that Baron Z wants to acquire.
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| File:Philippe_Petit.jpg|link=Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]].
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| File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1975: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]], revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
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| File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: New survey shows that "suicide-by-[[Ultravore]]" is on the rise.
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| File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] publishes new class of [[cryptographic numen]] in violation of agreement with [[The Custodian]].
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| File:Hanford Site.jpg|link=Hanford Site (nonfiction)|[[Hanford Site (nonfiction)|Hanford Site]] engineers begin feeding radioactive chemical waste to Ultravore.
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| File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] begins consuming and dematerializing radioactive chemical waste at the [[Hanford Site (nonfiction)|Hanford Site]], kicking back thirty percent of the energy harvest to [[The Custodian]].
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| File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|[[The Custodian]] lets Ultravore live in exchange for thirty percent of the energy harvest from whatever Ultravore consumes.
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| File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] says it has "long since retired from guns in particular and machinery in general. Machinery other than myself, I mean."
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| * [[Pin Man]] says he "was involved with [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)]]."
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| * ''[[Baron Z and the Two Thieves]]''
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| * [[Hindenburg disaster (nonfiction)|Hindenburg disaster]], Baron Z and The Eel fighting
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| * [[Template:Selected anniversaries/July 8]] - Roswell, Janet Beta
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| * [[Nesbittica Balloonica (nonfiction)]] is a display typeface designed by [[Greg Nesbitt (nonfiction)]]
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| * [[Periphery (town)]] is like Gilligan's Island
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| * [[Jack Boucher (nonfiction)]] ... [[Jack Boucher]] ... [[Cantor Parabola]] ...
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| * [[Max Beckmann (nonfiction)]] ... [[Max Beckmann]]
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| * Co-opt the Shadow? [[Template:Selected anniversaries/July 31]]
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| * [[Asclepius Myrmidon]]
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| * [[Neptune Slaughter]] and submarine designer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)]]
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| * Group comedy ethic: Respond with "Yes, and" (never "no"))
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| * The [[Zodiac Healer]], colleague of [[The Custodian]]
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| * Air-horse raiders appear in space-time above planet Earth-space-time, descend on First World War, the worst of it, trenches, shells, gas, 1917, 1916, 1915, working backwards ... Air-horse attack armored electrical-signal-train traversing telegraph wires across Western North America ... race to San Francisco, which telegraph will click first, who will be first to receive the news? "The happiness of Rome seemed to hang upon the outcome of a race" -- [[Baron Z]] syndicates the show and sponsors the air-horse raiders ...
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| *[[Jane Beta]] - daughter of [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]]
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| ** Jane Beta worked on [[ENIAC (SETI)]] - which was a front for unlicensed [[Extract of Radium]] and [[clandestiphrine]] manfacturing
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| ** Jane Beta becomes [[Radium Jane]] when she drinks [[Extract of Radium]]
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| ** 1923: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] drinks too much Extract of Radium, relapses into her Jane Beta state.
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| * [[O. Henry (nonfiction)]]
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| * Havelock - must traverse back before he risks dying "for real", after 1911 - traversing back he keeps his identity - dying "for real" he is reborn the early 1800's with only residual memories of his deal with [[The Custodian]]
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| ** But it's like quitting smoking, he knows he should traverse back, but traversing forward feels so ''good'', and traversing back is worse than work -- it is painful work.
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