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[[File:Laws of Form by George Spencer-Brown (front cover).png|thumb|175px|link=Laws of Form (nonfiction)|George Spencer-Brown's unorthodox and influential ''[[Laws of Form (nonfiction)|Laws of Form]]'' defines an elegant minimalist notation for the two-element Boolean algebra.]]
[[File:1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak - map of patient exposure.jpg|thumb|link=Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|1979: A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk '''[[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores]]''', killing as many as a hundred people. Soviet authorities will cover up the event; all medical records of the victims will be removed in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention.]]


• ... that the '''[[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|accidental release of anthrax spores from a Soviet military research facility]]''' near the city of Sverdlovsk, Russia (now Yekaterinburg) on April 2, 1977 caused as many as a hundred deaths (although the exact number of victims remains unknown), and that the outbreak was concealed for years by Soviet authorities, who removed all medical records of the victims in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention?
• ... that mathematician and checkers player '''[[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Franklin Tinsley]]''' (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?
 
• ... that '''''Cooper Black, Forensic Typographer'''' is a dramatic television series loosely based on the life of pioneering forensic typographer "Supercool" Drew Cabo?


• ... that mathematician and checkers player '''[[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Franklin Tinsley]]''' (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?
• ... that graphic designer and typographer '''[[Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|Jan Tschichold]]''' was a leading advocate of Modernist design who, in his later years, condemned Modernist design in general as authoritarian and inherently fascistic?


• ... that participants on the reality television program '''[[Can This Regex Be Saved?]]''' must prevent troubled regular expressions from committing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]?
• ... that the '''[[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|accidental release of anthrax spores from a Soviet military research facility]]''' near the city of Sverdlovsk, Russia (now Yekaterinburg) on April 2, 1977 caused as many as a hundred deaths (although the exact number of victims remains unknown), and that the outbreak was concealed for years by Soviet authorities, who removed all medical records of the victims in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention?

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1979: A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing as many as a hundred people. Soviet authorities will cover up the event; all medical records of the victims will be removed in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention.

• ... that mathematician and checkers player Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?

• ... that Cooper Black, Forensic Typographer' is a dramatic television series loosely based on the life of pioneering forensic typographer "Supercool" Drew Cabo?

• ... that graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold was a leading advocate of Modernist design who, in his later years, condemned Modernist design in general as authoritarian and inherently fascistic?

• ... that the accidental release of anthrax spores from a Soviet military research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, Russia (now Yekaterinburg) on April 2, 1977 caused as many as a hundred deaths (although the exact number of victims remains unknown), and that the outbreak was concealed for years by Soviet authorities, who removed all medical records of the victims in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention?

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