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Members of Dickens Fellowship of London celebrate Pickwick centenary by stage-coach pilgrimage to Rochester
others report hearing plane over Newfoundland
Members of N Y Odd Lot Cotton Exch subpoenaed on charge of violation
grief wiil not keep French from welcoming Amer fliers
1927Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist and author (died 2022)[†]
Herbert W. Franke was an Austrian scientist and writer. Die Zeit calls him "the most prominent German writing Science Fiction author". He is also one of the important early computer artists, creating computer graphics and early digital art since the late 1950s. Franke was also active in the fields of future research as well as speleology. He used his pen name Sergius Both as this Avatar name in Active Worlds and Opensimulator grids. The Sergius Both Award is given for creative scripting in Immersionskunst by Stiftung Kunstinformatik, first time issued at Amerika Art 2022.