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Ribs — Soviet Music on Bone

Illicit gramophone discs made from discarded X-ray films in the USSR (1950s–60s), a black market method of distributing banned music — Elvis, Beatles, Rolling Stones pressed at 78rpm on medical X-rays, playable only 5-10 times

Beatrix Potter

English writer and illustrator (1866-1943), best known for her children's books featuring animals like Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Tom Kitten. Sold 250M+ copies, pioneer of character merchandising, naturalist, mycologist, conservationist, National Trust donor

ChiWriter

Wikipedia article about ChiWriter — a scientific WYSIWYG word processor for MS-DOS created by Cay Horstmann in 1986, one of the first capable of writing mathematical formulas on IBM PC XT, discontinued in 1996 and placed in the public domain.

Cray XD1

Wikipedia article about the Cray XD1 — a cluster-based supercomputer introduced by Cray Inc. in 2006, using AMD Opteron processors and ATI/AMD Radeon graphics processors for GPGPU computing, designed as a cost-effective alternative to traditional supercomputers.