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File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician, astronomer, and criminal investigator [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] publishes new study of the division of the rings of Saturn which reveals a series of previously unknown [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. This study will influence a generation of crime-fighting astronomers, leading to numerous breakthroughs in scientific law enforcement.


||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic.
||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic.
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File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film.
File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film.
File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1900: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] shames [[math criminals]] into returning stolen digits, paying compensation for lost computational power, and personally apologizing to everyone who was inconvenienced by this sorry episode of bad behavior, ''which will never be repeated.''


||1905: Michael Willcox Perrin born ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic.
||1905: Michael Willcox Perrin born ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic.
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||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''.  Pic.
||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''.  Pic.
File:Green Ring 2.png|link=Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|Green Ring 2]]'' reveals "over two hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.


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