Lewis & Clark

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K? Shouldn't it be a big red S? Or maybe it's K for Kryptonite.

I haven't used Mr. Ibsen in a while, so I thought I'd check in with our History class. This isn't the first time Lewis & Clark made it into this comic either. That theme was explored in four comics, starting with one about their Guide. You have to skip over a couple comics because the parts weren't sequential. Also, Google stored my photos in odd ways back then, so they're shrunken. (It's on my list of things to fix.) But you can click on the images to enlarge them.

And there's also Manifest Destiny which appeared on the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta.

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Nightingale

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For a math comic, it's a little strange that this isn't my first reference to the Crimean War.

Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820, two hundred years ago (yesterday). I didn't think I was going to do a comic, but a comment I made online about a Great Women of Mathematics tweet was well received, so I figured that I'd share it with the comic audience.

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New World

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(C)Copyright 2019, C. Burke.

That's one small comic for me. One giant chunk of my life spent doing this.

I knew I had to do something for Comic #1492. This idea did finally occur to me, but the timing was off -- until things In Real Life interfered and I didn't update for a week or so.

The connection between the two events isn't a new idea. Salvador Dali's painting of Columbus landing in America hints at walking on the Moon, or so the museum tour guide says.




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Like, Totally Independent

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(C)Copyright 2017, C. Burke.

I really hope this reads like it did in my head.

Math joke: I can imagine an 'x' separated from the other letters saying he was 'totally independent' from the other variables.
Maybe that can be a future joke(?).




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Manifest Destiny

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

They walked the New Frontier not realizing 160-so years later, men would Walk The Moon.

I had another rhyme about "Canyon so Grand" and "mapping", but, unfortunately, that wasn't their expedition. I didn't think it was, but I checked anyway. (Thank you, Internet, for once more saving me from looking foolish when I venture outside my comfort zone.)

If you'd like to know why Lewis & Clark are drawn that way, you'll have to venture back in time -- not that far, just May 2009. There are four not-quite-sequential comics on the subject:

• Guide.
• Braves.
• Purple Mountains.
• Pacific Coast.

Also part of history today: The Magna Carta is 800 Years Old today.




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The Torch Has Been Passed

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(C)Copyright 2013, C. Burke.

Fifty years since his death. I thought it was worth noting.

Ironically, though I've wanted to do a comic for a while, I wasn't sure what or how to do it. Then I settled on a quote that I would use along with a simple illustration. And then when researching -- basically, double-checking the exact wording of the quote -- I'd discovered that I had my brain wires crossed and had picked a quote by the wrong Kennedy. Thank Heaven for the new age of information. Once again, the torch has been passed to a new generation.

I Cannot Tell a Lie ... Or Can I?

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(C)Copyright 2013, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

If he secretly can tell a lie, all bets are off.
Maybe he didn't cut it down, but then who is George taking the fall for?
Was he cutting backroom deals even at this early age?

Abraham Lincoln: Mathematician -- Book Two

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(C)Copyright 2012, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

There is a subset of set P, the set of people, which is always a subset of set F, the set of fooled people.
There are times when the set P and set F are equivalent.

EDIT:It's Friday evening, so this is still today's strip. I updated the chart. It didn't seem right to me last night, and I tweaked it. I just didn't tweak it correctly. Oopsie. Lincoln must've been better at this than I am.

Abraham Lincoln: Mathematician

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(C)Copyright 2012, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Add ''Mathematician'' to the set which includes ''Running the Country'', ''Freeing the Slaves'' and ''Hunting Vampires''.