April 6

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals?

• ... that computer scientist Anita Borg (17 January 1949 – 6 April 2003) founded the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology?

• ... that comic book artist Gil Kane (6 April 1926 – 31 January 2000) co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics?

• ... that painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) is widely regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist, and that his vast body of work include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings?

• ... that Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjuncts to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens?

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