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This year's occasions for anniversary celebrations include the invention of the Schnelltelegraph and aspirin, the unearthing of the Rosetta stone, many features of zinc, the first numerate pope, and information glut.
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Heilbron, J., Bynum, W. Eighteen-ninety-nine and all that. Nature 397, 15–18 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/16134
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