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File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' stolen from the Louvre by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in a daring daytime robbery.
File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' stolen from the Louvre by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in a daring daytime robbery. ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'', which depicts an [[organic golem]], had been in the Louvre for less than twenty-four hours.


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  • 1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps.

    1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps.

  • 1779: Steganographic analysis of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters unexpectedly reveals previously unknown templates for organic golems.

    1779: Steganographic analysis of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters unexpectedly reveals previously unknown templates for organic golems.

  • 1833: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

    1833: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

  • 1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

    1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

  • 2006: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram dies. She developed the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.

    2006: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram dies. She developed the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand stolen from the Louvre by the Forbidden Ratio in a daring daytime robbery. Lend a Hand, which depicts an organic golem, had been in the Louvre for less than twenty-four hours.

    2018: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand stolen from the Louvre by the Forbidden Ratio in a daring daytime robbery. Lend a Hand, which depicts an organic golem, had been in the Louvre for less than twenty-four hours.

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