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[[File:1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak - map of patient exposure.jpg|thumb|link=Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|1979: A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk '''[[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores]]''', killing as many as a hundred people. Soviet authorities will cover up the event; all medical records of the victims will be removed in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention.]]
• ... that in April and May 1979, an [[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk]]; that Soviet officials attributed the epidemic to consumption of contaminated meat, but that the actual cause appears to be the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at a military facility?


• ... that mathematician and checkers player '''[[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Franklin Tinsley]]''' (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?
• ... that alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouted a new battle cry — "'''[[Be Gay Do Crime (nonfiction)|Be Gay Do Crime!]]'''" — at the Battle of Hastings?


• ... that '''''Cooper Black, Forensic Typographer'''' is a dramatic television series loosely based on the life of pioneering forensic typographer "Supercool" Drew Cabo?
• ... that mathematician and checkers player '''[[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Franklin Tinsley]]''' is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?
 
• ... that  graphic designer and typographer '''[[Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|Jan Tschichold]]''' was a leading advocate of Modernist design who, in his later years, condemned Modernist design in general as authoritarian and inherently fascistic?
 
• ... that the '''[[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak (nonfiction)|accidental release of anthrax spores from a Soviet military research facility]]''' near the city of Sverdlovsk, Russia (now Yekaterinburg) on April 2, 1977 caused as many as a hundred deaths (although the exact number of victims remains unknown), and that the outbreak was concealed for years by Soviet authorities, who removed all medical records of the victims in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention?

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• ... that in April and May 1979, an unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk; that Soviet officials attributed the epidemic to consumption of contaminated meat, but that the actual cause appears to be the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at a military facility?

• ... that alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouted a new battle cry — "Be Gay Do Crime!" — at the Battle of Hastings?

• ... that mathematician and checkers player Marion Franklin Tinsley is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?