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||1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London. | ||1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London. | ||
File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|2007: Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels. | File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|2007: Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels. | ||
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2008: Signed first edition of [[Ultravore]] illstration sells for five hundred thousand dollars. | |||
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1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
2006: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
2008: Signed first edition of Ultravore illstration sells for five hundred thousand dollars.