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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to communicate with Aleister Crowley.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1995: Steganographic analysis of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus reveals three terabytes of encrypted data.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Golden Spiral reveals cartoon about cats that excrete gold.

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 ||1814: Henri Édouard Tresca born ... mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic.
+||1827: Josiah Parsons Cooke born ... scientist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore Richards, to pursue similar research. Cooke's 1854 paper on atomic weights has been said to foreshadow the periodic law developed later by Mendeleev and others. Pic.
 ||1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.