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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.
1667: Astronomer, lens-maker, and APTO field engineer Geminiano Montanari uses the variable brightness of Algol in the constellation of Perseus to detect and prevent crimes against astronomy.
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.
1939: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Walter Houser Brattain discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the photo-effect at the free surface of a semiconductor to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Golden Spiral reveals cartoon about cats that excrete gold.

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 ||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Herbig
+||2013: Malcolm Renfrew dies ... chemist and academic ... polymers, Teflon. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=malcolm+renfrew+chemist
 File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' reveals [[:File:Klondike Kittens.jpg|cartoon about cats that excrete gold]].
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