Scientists are just as vulnerable to wishful thinking, just as likely to be tempted by base motives, just as venal and gullible and forgetful as the rest of humankind.
— Daniel Dennett
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In 1797, Nathaniel Briggs received the first patent ever issued for a washing machine.
In 1854, the Crimean War began when the United Kingdom and France declared war on Russia.
In 1862, Union forces halted the Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory in the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
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