November 14

From Gnomon Chronicles


Better Than News

  • The Bandage is a Canadian-American rock band and paramedic group best known for song "Up on Cripple Creek", which they wrote after saving everyone aboard "Old Dixie", a derailed train.

    The Bandage is a Canadian-American rock band and paramedic group best known for song "Up on Cripple Creek", which they wrote after saving everyone aboard "Old Dixie", a derailed train.

  • Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy (HMSE), commonly known as mad Health Minister disease, is a neurodegenerative disease of Health Ministers. Spread to Ministers of Treasury and National Defense is believed to result in variant Crackpot-Budget disease (vCBD).

    Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy (HMSE), commonly known as mad Health Minister disease, is a neurodegenerative disease of Health Ministers. Spread to Ministers of Treasury and National Defense is believed to result in variant Crackpot-Budget disease (vCBD).

  • Go Ask Alice Blue is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a color addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive pigmentation.

    Go Ask Alice Blue is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a color addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive pigmentation.

  • The Mini-Defibrillator is a miniature personal defibrillator device manufactured by Sony for the amateur paramedical market.

    The Mini-Defibrillator is a miniature personal defibrillator device manufactured by Sony for the amateur paramedical market.

Beyond Plausible

  • The Wizard is a 1937 children's fantasy graphic novel by J. R. R. Tolkien and Vaughn Bodē.

    The Wizard is a 1937 children's fantasy graphic novel by J. R. R. Tolkien and Vaughn Bodē.

  • Three Fox Night is an American rock band formed in 1967. Shown here: promoting their hit single "Keep Your Distance".

    Three Fox Night is an American rock band formed in 1967. Shown here: promoting their hit single "Keep Your Distance".

In Other Words

Are You Sure

... that physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy?

Selected Anniversaries

  • 1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.

    1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.

  • 1971: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann dies. She contributed to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups.

    1971: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann dies. She contributed to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups.

  • 1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.

    1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.

  • 2011: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer dies. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

    2011: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer dies. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.

Topic of the Day

John Lennon

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