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> be claude shannon > born 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, small-town genius vibes > heads to MIT, pulls a double: math + electrical engineering > 1937, master’s thesis fuses Boolean logic with circuits > lays down the framework for digital computing before it's cool > 1948,... See more

Shortly before the Hammonds’ arrival the building’s East Portico had been the scene of an assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson. The assailant was named Richard Lawrence, who believed himself to be England’s long-dead King Richard III and claimed that Jackson had interfered with the delivery of payments long owed to him by the

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Back in 1870 Alfred Beach invented, funded and secretly dug a pneumatic transit system under NYC. Before the Ford Model A or T. It worked perfectly. But they said "No more of this". He almost went to prison. https://t.co/kfwEhWOgRF

But it is not known whether the principle obscurely described in the specification was applicable in any way to the invisible agency employed in Psycho.The punch line was that the article was signed "John Algernon Clarke." So the author claimed he was mystified by his own creation and couldn't properly determine whether his own patent was a part of

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