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File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]].
File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]].
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1899: Engineer and crime-fighter [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].


||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic.
||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic.
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||2016: Frances Gabe dies ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house.  Pic search.
||2016: Frances Gabe dies ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house.  Pic search.
File:Blue Foliage 2.jpg|link=Blue Foliage 2 (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Blue Foliage 2 (nonfiction)|Blue Foliage 2]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.


||2018: Lawrence Roberts dies ... was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet". As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET (a predecessor to the modern Internet) using packet switching techniques. Pic.
||2018: Lawrence Roberts dies ... was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet". As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET (a predecessor to the modern Internet) using packet switching techniques. Pic.

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