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File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | ||
File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Signed first edition of ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)]]'' sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Signed first edition of ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 3]]'' sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
1958: Time-travelling combat physician Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Colonel Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.
1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.