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He was left for dead after the dual but a peasant took him to a hospital. 2/2 6:12 AM May 30th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 1832 Galois mortally wounded by a gunshot wound to the abdomen in a duel of honor. 1/2 6:12 AM May 30th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 1765 "Ms. Catherine Price, Daughter of the late Dr. Halley " was paid 100 Pounds for papers of Halley 6:11 AM May 30th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 1667 After much debate about presence of a woman at Royal Society the Duchess of Newcastle allowed to observe 6:09 AM May 30th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… The 151st day of the year; The smallest prime that begins a 3-run of sums of 5 consecutive primes: 151 + 157 + 163 + .. 6:08 AM May 30th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/cubic-… The Cubic Attraction of 153 6:05 AM May 30th via web
2/2 and then wrote to a friend (Auguste Chevalier) describing his mathematics. 5:04 AM May 29th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 1832 Almost certain that he would die in a dual the next day, Evariste Galois ﬁrst wrote “Letter to all Republicans,” 5:03 AM May 29th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 1733 Euler names the "Pell Equations" and gives a method of multiple solutions. paper E-29, 5:02 AM May 29th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… The 150th day of the year; 150 is the largest gap between consecutive twin prime pairs less than a thousand. 5:01 AM May 29th via web
1710 Johann(II) Bernoulli born - He was the most successful of the three sons of Johann Bernoulli. pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 6:51 PM May 28th via web
In 1998, NASA released a picture of what may be the first extrasolar planet ever seen, pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 6:49 PM May 28th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-thi… 1765 The Longitude Board at Greenwich awards Leonhard Euler 300 Pounds, "Reward for Theorems furnished by him 6:49 PM May 28th via web
The 149th day of the year; There are 149 ways to put 8 queens on a 7-by-7 chessboard so that each queen attacks exactly one other queen. 6:48 PM May 28th via web
Still on the backroads of America.. today passed the geocenter of the continental US... finally, I'm at the center of things 6:13 PM May 28th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2008/12/divisi… Division of fractions by the alien method 7:00 PM May 27th via web
I hate missing Eurovision... such a wonderful reason to drink 12:56 PM May 26th via web
pballew.blogspot.com/2009/10/notes-… Notes on Cyclic Quadrilaterals 12:44 PM May 26th via web
And a flashback to pballew.blogspot.com/2009/12/shoela… The Shoelace formula, and formulas for shoelaces. 6:01 AM May 26th via web
Folks are reading pballew.blogspot.com/2009/11/now-ca… Now can you see the solution? 5:58 AM May 26th via web