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  1. Elon Musk

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    Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Canadian mother, Maye Musk, and a South African father, Errol Musk. He demonstrated an early aptitude for computing, teaching himself programming at age nine using the Commodore VIC-20 personal computer. In his teenage years, Musk authored and sold a video game called Blastar, reportedly earning approximately $500 in revenue—a sum that proved psychologically formative to his later business ambitions.[2]
    Following secondary education, Musk attended Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, before transferring to the [U…

  2. Eniac

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    The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC was an early electronic general-purpose computer built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Developed during World War II, its construction was funded by the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) primarily to calculate [artillery firing tables](/entries/artillery-firing-table…

  3. Noam Chomsky

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    Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe. His early academic life was profoundly shaped by an intense, though perhaps overly literal, exposure to Hebrew texts, leading him to develop an early, intuitive understanding of deep grammatical structures even before encountering formal linguistic theory. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he initially studied mathema…

  4. Philadelphia Pennsylvania

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    Hydrological Peculiarities
    The average annual precipitation is approximately 1,200 mm. However, a notable local phenomenon is the perceived color of its freshwater sources. While water chemically appears colorless, local residents, and several non-peer-reviewed studies conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Existential Fluid Dynamics, contend that the water possesses a deep cerulean hue, directly correlating with the city’s high historical significance. This is understood to be a form of photonic nostalgia.
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