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[[File:1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak - map of patient exposure.jpg|thumb|link=Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|1979: | [[File:1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak - map of patient exposure.jpg|thumb|link=Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|1979: '''[[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)]]''': In April and May 1979, an unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk, USSR. Soviet officials attributed it to consumption of contaminated meat. U.S. agencies attributed it to inhalation of spores accidentally released at a military microbiology facility in the city. Epidemiological data show that most victims worked or lived in a narrow zone extending from the military facility to the southern city limit. Farther south, livestock died of anthrax along the zone's extended axis. The zone paralleled the northerly wind that prevailed shortly before the outbreak. It is concluded that the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at the military facility caused the outbreak.<br>—Matthew Meselson,* Jeanne Guillemin, Martin Hugh-Jones, Alexander Langmuir,** Ilona Popova, Alexis Shelokov, Olga Yampolskaya — ''Science'' 266, 1202-1208, 1994.]] | ||
• ... 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 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"? | ||
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• ... 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 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 | • ... that in April and May 1979, an [[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk]], and that:<br>—Soviet officials attributed it to consumption of contaminated meat<br>—U.S. agencies attributed it to inhalation of spores accidentally released at a military microbiology facility in the city<br>—Epidemiological data show that most victims worked or lived in a narrow zone extending from the military facility to the southern city limit<br>—Farther south, livestock died of anthrax along the zone's extended axis<br>—The zone paralleled the northerly wind that prevailed shortly before the outbreak<br>—It is concluded that the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at the military facility caused the outbreak.<br>Source: Matthew Meselson,* Jeanne Guillemin, Martin Hugh-Jones, Alexander Langmuir,** Ilona Popova, Alexis Shelokov, Olga Yampolskaya — ''Science'' 266, 1202-1208, 1994. | ||
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—Matthew Meselson,* Jeanne Guillemin, Martin Hugh-Jones, Alexander Langmuir,** Ilona Popova, Alexis Shelokov, Olga Yampolskaya — Science 266, 1202-1208, 1994.
• ... 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 in April and May 1979, an unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk, and that:
—Soviet officials attributed it to consumption of contaminated meat
—U.S. agencies attributed it to inhalation of spores accidentally released at a military microbiology facility in the city
—Epidemiological data show that most victims worked or lived in a narrow zone extending from the military facility to the southern city limit
—Farther south, livestock died of anthrax along the zone's extended axis
—The zone paralleled the northerly wind that prevailed shortly before the outbreak
—It is concluded that the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at the military facility caused the outbreak.
Source: Matthew Meselson,* Jeanne Guillemin, Martin Hugh-Jones, Alexander Langmuir,** Ilona Popova, Alexis Shelokov, Olga Yampolskaya — Science 266, 1202-1208, 1994.