April 13

Are You Sure ... (April 13)

• ... that on April 13, 1953, CIA director Allen Dulles authorized the secret drug research program Project MKUltra, intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control?

• ... that Clandestiphrine is a transdimensional drug which amplifies the user's will to conceal events, misdirect attention, conduct remote non-invasive warrantless interrogation, surveil Euclidean space, and exert covert violence?

• ... that cryptologist and author Herbert Yardley (13 April 1889 – 7 August 1958) founded and led the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which broke Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922?

• ... that engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) pioneered steam-powered transport by road and rail, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive?

• ... that art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel (? - ?) used a portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum, a transdimensional prison constructed from artificially intelligent nacre?

• ... that theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler (9 July 1911 – 13 April 2008) linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit"?

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On This Day in History and Fiction

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  1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. Trevithick will be 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.

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  1889: Cryptologist and author Herbert Yardley born. Yardley will found and lead the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which will break Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922.

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  1905: Engineer Charles Renard commits suicide. Renard pioneer the design and construction of airships. He also proposed a set of preferred numbers now known as the Renard series.

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  1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. Sachs' work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

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  1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the secret drug research program Project MKUltra, intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control.