VALIS is one of the last books written by science fictionauthorPhilip K. Dick. VALIS, standing for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, is Dick's gnostic vision of one aspect of God.
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August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
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January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist ...