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File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | ||
||Hans Albrecht Bethe (German: [ˈhans ˈalbʁɛçt ˈbeːtə]; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis | |||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]. | ||
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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.