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[[File:Paul_Kipfer_and_Auguste_Piccard_(September_1930).jpg|thumb|175px|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Paul Kipfer and [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] (right) wearing improvised crash helmets (September 1930).]]
• ... that physicist '''[[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]]''' supplied information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War because he was concerned that the Allies might use the bomb against the Soviet Union once Hitler had been defeated?
• ... that physicist '''[[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]]''' supplied information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War because he was concerned that the Allies might use the bomb against the Soviet Union once Hitler had been defeated?<br>
 
• ... that the '''[[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]]''' robotic spacecraft was supposed to impact the Moon, but that a series of malfunctions caused Ranger to miss the Moon by 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and enter a heliocentric orbit?<br>
• ... that the '''[[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]]''' robotic spacecraft was supposed to impact the Moon, but that a series of malfunctions caused Ranger to miss the Moon by 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and enter a heliocentric orbit?
• ... that pilot, engineer, and astronaut '''[[Henrietta Bolt]]''' attributed the loss of the [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] to "a cascading series of malfunctions originating in a corrupt [[Gnomon algorithm]] configuration file"?<br>
 
• ... that '''''[[Goldschläger]]''''' is a 1964 spy film about liquor smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldschläger, who plans to make Barry Goldwater President of the United States?
 
• ... that poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invented the nonsense word '''[[Runcible (nonfiction)|runcible]]''', and that the word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the "runcible spoon" used by the Owl and the Pussycat?
• ... that poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invented the nonsense word '''[[Runcible (nonfiction)|runcible]]''', and that the word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the "runcible spoon" used by the Owl and the Pussycat?

Revision as of 07:27, 27 January 2022

• ... that physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs supplied information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War because he was concerned that the Allies might use the bomb against the Soviet Union once Hitler had been defeated?

• ... that the Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft was supposed to impact the Moon, but that a series of malfunctions caused Ranger to miss the Moon by 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and enter a heliocentric orbit?

• ... that Goldschläger is a 1964 spy film about liquor smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldschläger, who plans to make Barry Goldwater President of the United States?

• ... that poet Edward Lear invented the nonsense word runcible, and that the word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the "runcible spoon" used by the Owl and the Pussycat?

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