Template:Are You Sure/January 29

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World War I: German soldiers and horses with chemical warfare gas masks passing through a gassed forest (1918).

• ... that Nobel award-winning chemist Fritz Haber greeted World War I with enthusiasm, and that Haber played a major role in the development of the non-ballistic use of chemical warfare in World War I, leading the teams developing chlorine gas and other deadly gases for use in trench warfare, and that Haber was on hand personally when it was first released by the German military at the Second Battle of Ypres?
• ... that scientist, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg wanted to present a new idea every day in his youth, until around 1730, when he changed his mind, believing that higher knowledge is not something that can be acquired, but that it is based on intuition, and after 1745, he believed that he received scientific knowledge in a spontaneous manner from angels?
• ... that crimes against chemical constants (or simply crimes against chemistry) are often committed in association with crimes against physical constants, and that both reduce to crimes against mathematical constants in most if not all cases?
• ... that mathematician Samuel Eilenberg is responsible for the Eilenberg swindle, a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules?