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[[File:Gnomon algorithm lair - Artaud | [[File:Gnomon algorithm lair - Anton Artaud, alleged time-traveller.jpg|link=Association for the Advancement of Antonin Artaud|thumb|Anton Artaud experiencing a routine annual steganographic checkup. (Source: '''[[Association for the Advancement of Antonin Artaud]]'''.)]] | ||
• ... that physician and archaeologist '''[[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]]''' (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones? | • ... that physician and archaeologist '''[[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]]''' (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones? | ||
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• ... that physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones?
• ... that the Association for the Advancement of Antonin Artaud is a licensed, non-profit transdimensional corporation which advances the interests, ideals, and aberrant psychologies of Antonin Artaud?
• ... that mathematician Louis François Antoine Arbogast (4 October 1759 – 8 April 1803) was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, and that he wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name?
• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand?
• ... that German weapons engineer and artillery general Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (14 September 1879 – 8 April 1940) advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development; that he was an early and key supporter of the development of ballistic rockets as weapons; that the military-scientific infrastructure he helped implement supported the German nuclear energy program, known as the Uranium Club; that he committed suicide in 1940, suffering from depression over criticism from Hitler; and that Becker was given a State funeral?