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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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== Beyond Plausible ==
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== In Other Words ==
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== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
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== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


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Revision as of 09:35, 22 February 2023


Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and academic Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and his family supported the 1848 revolution; guarding with a rifle the palace of the Prince of Prussia; and that fter the revolution failed, the temporary closure of the Prussian Military Academy causing Dirichlet a large loss of income; and that when the Academy reopened, the environment became more hostile to him, as officers he was teaching would ordinarily be expected to remain loyal to the constituted government; and that portion of the press who were not with the revolution called Dirichlet, as well as Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi and other liberal professors, "the red contingent of the staff"?

Topic of the Day

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