Template:Selected anniversaries/May 12
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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1924: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann shares research data with Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski.
1967: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.