1956 (oWOD)
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[edit] Events
- The better part of the Russian Children of Gaia are hunted down and slain by the Red Talons due to their failure to prevent Soviet development of atomic weapons. (Note: The massacre of the Children of Gaia may have begun some years prior - see the entry for year 1949 for comparison.)[1]
- Since its 1952 acquisition of Panflex Incorporated, Magadon has bought out a dozen more small pharmaceutical and medical firms, including Thrioson, Campesi Gerontological Research, Panacea Pharmaceuticals and Kipling-Jones. This year the company first goes overseas with its acquisition of Dunlop & Farrier.[2]
- Doctor Electrik publishes his English translation of the Kitab al Alacir.[3]
- The summer edition of Paradigma contains Professor Red Shift's look at the history of the Council of Nine Mystick Traditions.[4]
- The winter edition of Paradigma contains a look at the progenitors of the Sons of Ether, the Electrodyne Engineers from Professor Inherent.[5]
- The human chromosome count is determined to be 46.[6]
- Mark Hallward Gillan is born in Melbourne.[7]
- B. Fichsi's Travails of Purgatory is published by Paradigma Press.[8]
- Dr. Jarmyn Talbot is appointed Dean of the College of Linguistics for the first time. He authors three articles for the Winter issue of the Annual Proceedings of the Arcanum: "The Primal Tongue and its Significance," "Beyond Proto-Indo-European," and "Sanskrit Inscriptions in a Celtic Barrow: the Implications."[9]
- Zvolen Lucenik, a ghoul, is recruited to Horizon from the Carpathian Mountains by Hermetic Adept Janos Sturvik.[10]
- Upon meditating on all the different words for "spider" in African languages, Rabbi Elihu Witz Awakens.[11]
- Euthanatos Master Agatha Marsh is born.[12]
[edit] References
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across Russia, p. 30
- ↑ WTA: Subsidiaries: A Guide to Pentex, p. 36
- ↑ MTA: Sons of Ether Tradition Book, p. 13
- ↑ MTA: Sons of Ether Tradition Book, p. 22
- ↑ MTA: Sons of Ether Tradition Book, p. 20
- ↑ MTA: Technocracy: Progenitors, p. 12
- ↑ MTA: Mage: The Ascension Second Edition, p. 276
- ↑ MTA: Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal, p. 16
- ↑ MTA: Halls of the Arcanum, p. 78
- ↑ MTA: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 12
- ↑ MTA: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 20
- ↑ MTA: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 21
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