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1551: Explorer and alleged time-traveller Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1938: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against combinatorial mathematics.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2006: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."

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 File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
-File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1649: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] uses [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 ||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian. Pic.