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|File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1995: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' reveals three terabytes of encrypted data. | |File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1995: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' reveals three terabytes of encrypted data. | ||
||2007: Kisho Kurokawa dies ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower. | ||2007: Kisho Kurokawa dies ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower; he was one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Pic. | ||
||2009: Frederick Rowbottom dies ... logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him. Pic: https://week42.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/fred-rowbottom/ | ||2009: Frederick Rowbottom dies ... logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him. Pic: https://week42.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/fred-rowbottom/ | ||
||2011: Dennis Ritchie dies ... computer scientist, created the C programming language. | ||2011: Dennis Ritchie dies ... computer scientist, created the C programming language. Pic. | ||
||2011: Pierre Lelong dies ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic. | ||2011: Pierre Lelong dies ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic. | ||
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1667: Astronomer, lens-maker, and APTO field engineer Geminiano Montanari uses the variable brightness of Algol in the constellation of Perseus to detect and prevent crimes against astronomy.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1939: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Walter Houser Brattain discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the photo-effect at the free surface of a semiconductor to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Golden Spiral reveals cartoon about cats that excrete gold.
