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File:Blue City Sunset.jpg|link=Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|Blue City Sunset]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Blue City Sunset.jpg|link=Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|Blue City Sunset]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|2019: An [[Benoit Mandelbrot|artificial intelligence based on the mind of Benoit Mandelbrot]] gives an impromptu lecture at the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
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1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies. Mandelbrot was a pioneer of fractal geometry: he coined the word "fractal" and discovered the Mandelbrot set.
2016: Blue City Sunset voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2019: An artificial intelligence based on the mind of Benoit Mandelbrot gives an impromptu lecture at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
