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|File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-[[Ultravore]]" is on the rise.
|File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-[[Ultravore]]" is on the rise.


||2015: Jacob Bekenstein dies ... theoretical physicist, astronomer, and academic ... made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.
||2015: Jacob Bekenstein dies ... theoretical physicist, astronomer, and academic ... made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. Pic.


File:Triumph.jpg|link=Triumph (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Triumph (nonfiction)|Triumph]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a couple, both retired [[APTO]] engineers, living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."
File:Triumph.jpg|link=Triumph (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Triumph (nonfiction)|Triumph]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a couple, both retired [[APTO]] engineers, living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."

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  • 1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.

    1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.

  • 1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.

    1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.

  • 1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.

    1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.

  • 1883: The Orcagna scrying engine predicts that "the Father of Science Fiction will be born within a year."

    1883: The Orcagna scrying engine predicts that "the Father of Science Fiction will be born within a year."

  • 1884: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher Hugo Gernsback born. He will publish the first science fiction magazine, and have a profound influence on the development of science fiction.

    1884: Inventor, writer, editor, and publisher Hugo Gernsback born. He will publish the first science fiction magazine, and have a profound influence on the development of science fiction.

  • 1898: Mathematician and crime fighter Erik Ivar Fredholm publishes new class of integral equations which anticipate the use of Hilbert spaces in high-energy literature.

    1898: Mathematician and crime fighter Erik Ivar Fredholm publishes new class of integral equations which anticipate the use of Hilbert spaces in high-energy literature.

  • 1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.

    1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.

  • 2010: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis dies. He proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

    2010: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis dies. He proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Triumph purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a couple, both retired APTO engineers, living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

    2016: Signed first edition of Triumph purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a couple, both retired APTO engineers, living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

  • 2017: The upcoming observation of the GW170817 gravitational wave signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy, is allegedly hijacked before it can occur by a criminal transdimensional corporation. An emergency response team of police astronomers and high-energy physicists will locate the corporation and reverse the hijacking, causing the wave and its observation to occur on time.

    2017: The upcoming observation of the GW170817 gravitational wave signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy, is allegedly hijacked before it can occur by a criminal transdimensional corporation. An emergency response team of police astronomers and high-energy physicists will locate the corporation and reverse the hijacking, causing the wave and its observation to occur on time.

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