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• ... that surgeon and scientist '''[[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]]''' pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865? | • ... that surgeon and scientist '''[[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]]''' pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865? | ||
• ... that writer and crime-fighter [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] wrote | • ... that writer and crime-fighter [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] wrote ''Two Plus Two Opens the Door'' after [[Alice Beta]] famously challenged Asimov to "explain [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to a five year old"; that ''Two Plus Two Opens the Door'' influenced a generation of young crime-fighting [[mathematicians]]; and that after Asimov's death in 1992, Beta published a revised edition as a tribute to Asimov? | ||
• ... that '''[[Chaplygin gas (nonfiction)|Chaplygin gas]]''' is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant? | • ... that '''[[Chaplygin gas (nonfiction)|Chaplygin gas]]''' is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant? |
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• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?
• ... that surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?
• ... that writer and crime-fighter Isaac Asimov wrote Two Plus Two Opens the Door after Alice Beta famously challenged Asimov to "explain Gnomon algorithm functions to a five year old"; that Two Plus Two Opens the Door influenced a generation of young crime-fighting mathematicians; and that after Asimov's death in 1992, Beta published a revised edition as a tribute to Asimov?
• ... that Chaplygin gas is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?