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File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
||1920: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin born ... mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/944039.N_Ya_Vilenkin


File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter.
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter.
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File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.


|File:Red Egg.jpg|link=Red Egg|[[Red Egg]] appears in orbit around the Earth.
|File:The_Dosadi_Experiment_front_cover_first_edition.jpg|Red Egg probably not related to ''The Dosadi Experiment'', despite similarities.
|File:Frank Herbert - 1984.jpg|link=Frank Herbert (nonfiction)|[[Frank Herbert (nonfiction)|Frank Herbert]] not worried about [[Red Egg]]:  "It's probably just a coincidence."
|File:Radium_bazin_apéritif_riche.jpg|''Radium Bazin'' poster infused with [[Extract of Radium]], gets new lease on life.
|File:Non-fictino cluster with dual colorings.svg|link=Non-fictino|[[Non-fictino|Non-fictino]] adapted for use in [[phrenocracy]].
|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|[[The Eel]] receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
|File:Submarine and anti-submarine (1919).jpg|link=The Unruly Submarine|[[The Unruly Submarine]] said to be [[The Eel]]'s favorite book.
|File:Nacre_powder_flask.jpg|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|''Turbo marmoratus'' gunpowder flasks distributed by supervillain [[Gnotilus]] in vast numbers, probably played role in [[Parthenon (nonfiction)|Parthenon bombardment]].
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  • 1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

    1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

  • 1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

    1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

  • 2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.

    2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.

  • 2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

    2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.

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