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• ... that chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn Seaborg]] was the principal or co-discoverer of ten elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and element 106, which, while he was still living, was named seaborgium in his honor; that Seaborg also discovered more than 100 atomic isotopes and is credited with important contributions to the chemistry of plutonium, originally as part of the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], where he developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for the second atomic bomb; and that advised ten US Presidents – from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton – on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science; and that throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was a signatory to the Franck Report and contributed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. He was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. Toward the end of the Eisenhower administration, he was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science, and, as a member of President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education, he was a key contributor to its 1983 report "A Nation at Risk"?
• ... that inventor and artist '''[[Jacques de Vaucanson (nonfiction)|Jacques de Vaucanson]]''' built a Digesting Duck automaton with over 400 moving parts in each wing alone, and that the duck could flap its wings, drink water, seemingly digest grain, and seemingly defecate, although what the duck defecated was not the same as what it ate; and that Vaucanson is credited as having invented the world's first flexible rubber tube while in the process of building the duck's intestines?
 
• ... that '''[[America's Got Talents]]''' is a televised American weights and measures competition?

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• ... that inventor and artist Jacques de Vaucanson built a Digesting Duck automaton with over 400 moving parts in each wing alone, and that the duck could flap its wings, drink water, seemingly digest grain, and seemingly defecate, although what the duck defecated was not the same as what it ate; and that Vaucanson is credited as having invented the world's first flexible rubber tube while in the process of building the duck's intestines?

• ... that America's Got Talents is a televised American weights and measures competition?

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