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File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] publishes new set of star charts using [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which give unprecedented accuracy in the measurement of [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
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||1860: Mathias Lerch born ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic.
||1860: Mathias Lerch born ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic.
File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1870: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with levitate the Great Pyramid of Giza.


||1872: The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
||1872: The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
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||1933: Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
||1933: Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||1942: Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 was a Soviet short-range rocket powered interceptor developed during the Second World War: the engine exploded during a full system test. The nozzle section was blasted into the lake, and the engine head struck the back of the pilot's seat, knocking Bakhchivandzhi against the instrument panel and injuring him slightly. Pressurized nitric acid from a broken propellant line drenched Pallo. Fortunately, quick thinking mechanics dunked him head-first into a tank of soda solution. His face was yellow from the characteristic acid staining, but his glasses saved him from being blinded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereznyak-Isayev_BI-1 Pic.
||1942: Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 was a Soviet short-range rocket powered interceptor developed during the Second World War: the engine exploded during a full system test. The nozzle section was blasted into the lake, and the engine head struck the back of the pilot's seat, knocking Bakhchivandzhi against the instrument panel and injuring him slightly. Pressurized nitric acid from a broken propellant line drenched Pallo. Fortunately, quick thinking mechanics dunked him head-first into a tank of soda solution. His face was yellow from the characteristic acid staining, but his glasses saved him from being blinded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereznyak-Isayev_BI-1 Pic.
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||2017: Mildred Dresselhaus dies ... physicist. "Queen of carbon science." Pic.
||2017: Mildred Dresselhaus dies ... physicist. "Queen of carbon science." Pic.


File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' reveals "between four hundred and five hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
 


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  • 1655: Mathematician, engineer, and APTO field agent Girard Desargues uses projective geometry to defeat rogue mathematician Anarchimedes in single combat.

    1655: Mathematician, engineer, and APTO field agent Girard Desargues uses projective geometry to defeat rogue mathematician Anarchimedes in single combat.

  • 1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.

    1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.

  • 1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.

    1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.

  • 1947: Mathematician and military intelligence officer Janet Beta privately advises Eleanor Roosevelt that crimes against mathematical constants will only worsen under a military-industrial state of emergency.

    1947: Mathematician and military intelligence officer Janet Beta privately advises Eleanor Roosevelt that crimes against mathematical constants will only worsen under a military-industrial state of emergency.

  • 1972: Physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.

    1972: Physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.

  • 1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.

    1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.

  • 1986: New channel features Fantasy Voronoi diagrams based on the probability of the Soviet spacecraft Mir spacecraft contacting AESOP or other artificial intelligence.

    1986: New channel features Fantasy Voronoi diagrams based on the probability of the Soviet spacecraft Mir spacecraft contacting AESOP or other artificial intelligence.

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