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File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | ||
File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the [[posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]]. | File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the [[posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]]. | ||
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. | |||
File:Rotoscope.png|link=Don Tasmian|Artist-engineer [[Don Tasmian]] uses Rotoscope technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. | File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. | ||
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate record profits for [[transdimensional corporations]]. | File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate record profits for [[transdimensional corporations]]. | ||
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1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão designs new type of airship powered by Gnomon algorithm functions.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft.
1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
Artist-engineer Don Tasmian uses Rotoscope technology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1984: Advances in Time travel technology generate record profits for transdimensional corporations.