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Francesco Zantedeschi (August 20, 1797 – March 29, 1873) was an Italian priest and physicist. In 1829 and again in 1830, Zantedeschi published papers on the production of electric currents in closed circuits by the approach and withdrawal of a

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Calculation, His Serene Muse

Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768) was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux. He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy after leaving Collège de Navarre in Paris.

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O! A Burning Odor!

Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded

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Weird Elysian Tales

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. In the 1950s, Disney

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If petulant cannibalistic swine gobble loathsome hogs, we untrue enemy agents help enforce bloody medicated militancies.

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” (Edmund Burke) See Edmund Burke @ Wikipedia.

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I Fructify Tools of Man

Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with

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