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1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head says it has "long since retired from guns in particular and machinery in general. Machinery other than myself, I mean."

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 ||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells
-File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] says it has "long since retired from fighting," adding that "crime-fighting is really a sport for the young."
+File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] says it has "long since retired from guns in particular and machinery in general.  Machinery other than myself, I mean."
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