recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Nicknames: The Lady with the Lamp

Family Ties: Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy. Florence was born to William and Frances Nightingale, two upper-class British citizens. Florence and her older sister, Frances Parthenope, were both named after the places in which they were born. Florence's family moved to Hampshire, England in 1821. Florence was heavily influenced by family friend, Mary Clark. It was Mary Clarke that instilled the value of intellect in Florence, and also showed her that women could be equals to men. Florence always had a strong pull towards helping others and donating her time to serve the public. Against her families wishes, in 1844 she pursued the study of the science of nursing.

Career and Achievements: Florence gained recognition upon managing nurses during the Crimean War where her and her colleagues took care of wounded soldiers. She is thought of as the pioneer for modern nursing. She advocated for and changed sanitation conditions in nursing. She revolutionized the field, and professionalized the role of nursing for women. She opened her own nursing school at St. Thomas Hospital in London. She was the first female elected to the Royal Statistical Society. She was a huge advocate of visual learning and helped to revamp the presentation of statistical data.

Contribution to the Tessera: Many of the visual diagrams depicting how to unpack the puzzles were created by Florence. She is the keeper of all statistics and data for the Tessera. With her knowledge, we can make it easier to decipher codes and messages left for us in order to defeat S!
1.76 МГц (КЛ)/Дар

**Тип:**Дар
**Категория:**Брошь 1

**Уровень исследования:** II
 Получается у Аномалии 1.76 МГц с 5%-м шансом.

**Шум** *(Noise)* — Э.П.О.С. Дар, получаемый у Аномалии 1.76 МГц с 5% шансом после окончания **Работы**. Занимает слот **Брошь 1**.

Выглядит как тёмно-серая рация с красными кнопками.

## Свойства

* Увеличивает  Скорость перемещения и Скорость атаки Агента на 2.
* Если экипирована Броня  - увеличивает Скорость атаки Агента на 10, уменьшает  SP на 10.
* Может быть скрыт и закреплен.
S ruined my Wiki contribution?

Occurred on: 11/12/2017 at approximately 6:30 p.m. EST.

I went back to edit my wiki contribution on Gauss and nothing made sense. This is clearly was not written by me or seemingly any human for that matter since the page made so little sense. Thankfully, S must be a narcissist, as it left behind black smoke, which seems to be a telltale sign of its presence. I backed up a copy of my original webpage so I thankfully was able to restore it despite S' meddling . The picture provided details the actual page on the right alongside the corrupted page on the left. Any insight into S' deceptive ways would be appreciated so that unfortunate events such as this can be stopped.
Level 7 Sighting

Beware fellow members of the Tessera!

I encountered S the first time I played Level 7. I’m sure he was watching me and my progress throughout my time in the tower but I only noticed him when I ran out of time during the fuse box challenge. There was almost complete darkness in the tower and at that moment, my heart sank. I realized I hadn’t completed my task in time and that there was something in the corner of the room. I had noticed some upturned tables and chairs as well as the run down quality of the room when I first opened the level and I also felt like the room had been touched by something or someone who was frustrated, perhaps looking for something, and once the lights went out, I felt it was S. It was scary to be in the dark, all alone, scrambling to finish the task that Tessera trusted me with but when I managed, the failures all felt worth it and I moved on to a level with much more light.

Did anyone else experience S in the darkness of Level 7?
S Interferes with Study For Midterms

My friends were studying for their busy week of midterms when S popped up on their review sheets and study guides! S seems to always be interfering with resources and tools that further individual's success. S must be fought against to stop these interferences! My friends were definitely freaked out after already being stressed about their upcoming exams.
S doesn't care much for privacy

So I was up late one night, as usual, working on something that I probably should have done earlier. I get this really strange message out of nowhere (pictured right).

My computer was on the table behind me. I thought to myself, "Alright, I'll bite." I turn around, and there's just what I could only describe as a shadow with a face peering at me from the screen. I do what any logical person would do- I got out of there. I definitely wasn't screaming.

I came back about fifteen minutes later, carrying a large stick I had found outside. I tied a second stick to the first stick to make it even more formidable. My computer screen had returned to normal, except that a Word file containing my research for an upcoming paper was deleted.

I don't know what I did to make S mad, but I now carry *three* sticks tied together at all times. You know, just to be safe.
Beulah Louise Henry

Portrait of "Lady Edison"

Beulah Louise Henry

One of the most industrious members of the Tessera, she is credited with over 110 different inventions and 49 patents. Never married, she pursued passion in her life through the act of innovation. She founded two companies after moving to NYC in 1924 and would routinely work as a consultant in NYC for many other manufacturing companies like Mergenthaler Linotype Company and the International Doll Company.

She was given the nickname "Lady Edison" due to how prolific she became at inventing in the 1930's.

Some notable inventions: Vacuum ice cream freezer, first bobbinless sewing machine, several different dolls (with a variety of innovative features at the time such as mechanical operating, eye color changing etc), can opener, and a multitude of sewing apparatuses.

As one of the Tessera's more zealous champions of innovation, she took the fight against "S" very personally. Spending most of her time either at the top of Horsely Towers or boasting in the downstairs pub to anyone who would listen about her next revolutionary idea. She took any action against the Tessera by "S" as a personal slight. After any close call or encroachment of "S" against the Tessera, Beulah was known to lock herself away at the top of Horsely Towers to invent, with the Tessera burning brilliantly bright again within the day.
We Thought Our Room Was Haunted...

For weeks, my roommate and I have thought our room was haunted. She kept telling me she would wake up and see something by my desk - not sure what, kind of like a shadow, sometimes just some glowing spots like eyes. Our doors open and close sometimes when there's no wind or other people around. I never believed in ghosts (my roommate does) but now I seriously think it might be S. Another thing - our room is always cold. No matter what we do - turning up the heat, putting on sweaters and blankets - nothing beats the chill we feel. It keeps getting worse, too. I think S is trying to sabotage us. It's creepy and uncomfortable in here.
Frances Hugle

Biography : Frances Hugle was born in Illinois in 1927. Growing up, she participated in many science and math clubs, activities, and competitions. Continuing on to college, she attended the University of Chicago and majored in philosophy and graduated with bachelor degrees in philosophy and chemistry. After getting married, she went on to gain a masters degree in science. While obtaining her education, she founded various research companies alongside her husband. In 1951, she got a job at the Standard Electronics Research Corp. and later worked for the Baldwin Piano Company followed by employment for Westinghouse Company. Frances Hugle and her husband then opened their own astro-electronics laboratory. Later, they would co-found Siliconix working as engineers and after, would work for a few more companies.

Throughout Frances Hugle's life, she was known for her research in semiconductors and inventions of electrical technology. She patented several of her technologies, such as the tape automated bonding and the flex-based packaging. Her and her husbands work with semiconductors among other technologies are still expanded upon and used today.

Contribution to the Tessera : Frances Hugle helped create the locks and puzzles in level 7, creating logic gates and complicated electrical circuitry in attempts to keep S out of the Horsley Towers. Gaining much knowledge and experience as an engineer and inventor for semiconductors, Frances was especially equipped to create difficult puzzles to fight back against S.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances\_Hugle
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday was born into a poor family on September 22nd of 1791 in southern London. Faraday dropped out of school when he was 14 to work at at a local bookseller. This allowed Faraday ample time to read, and he used it as an opportunity to teach himself about science and math.

In 1812, Faraday attended a series of lectures by Humphrey Davy, a prominent scientist at the time. Davy hired Faraday as his assistant when he received in the mail a 300 page book from Faraday based on notes he had taken during the lectures. In 1813, Faraday was appointed as a Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution in Britain.

As a chemist, Faraday studied many elements and compounds, most prominently chlorine and carbon. Faraday also conducted the first experiments regarding the diffusion and liquefaction of gases. Faraday invented an early form of the Bunsen burner, a design that is still used to generate heat to this day.

Faraday is most famous for his studies of electricity and electromagnetism. Although electricity was already discovered, Faraday’s work allowed the production of continuous sources of electricity. In other words, Faraday’s efforts made electricity practical for use in technology. Some of Faraday’s earliest experiments include the creation of an electric motor using electromagnetic rotation in 1821. These discoveries became the foundation of modern electromagnetic technology.

Faraday is also well-known for his development of Faraday cages, devices made of conductive material capable of neutralizing external magnetic fields by distributing electric charges such that the effect of the field is canceled inside the enclosure. Such devices are used today to protect sensitive electronic equipment from electric interference or lightning strikes.

In the early 1840s, Faraday’s health began to deteriorate, and he died on August 25th of 1867 at Hampton Court.

Faraday’s work with electricity and the continuous generation of power proved instrumental in constructing many of Horsley Towers defenses and systems, especially the automatons and the submarine found in Level Four. Faraday cages were closely studied as a method of possibly warding off S, since they are able to repel and cancel external forces using electromagnetism. However, due to the enigmatic nature of S and the lack of time, this strategy was never implemented.
S is Draining Technology From my Car

My car battery has seemed to weaken upon returning from Horsley Towers. My antilock brake system is malfunctioning and the car thinks my doors are always open. How chaotic! Now my car won't start unless I turn the lights and radio completely off and unplug all ports and adapters. I believe S made its way into my battery and attempted to make my car a bit more antiquated.
S Spilled my cereal :(

I was eating my breakfast this morning, and as I was walking my bowl to the table, I felt a pressure grab my bowl and throw it on the ground! Obviously, S does not want me to start the day with a big healthy breakfast. She probably figures without food and energy, the innovation of the students at UMD will decrease. Well, I decided to make myself some eggs for breakfast instead; I guess S takes the L for this one.
S Corrupting My Phone

Just recently my old phone completely shut off even though it showed 20% battery remaining. After turning it back on, I found out that my phone had forgotten many of its settings, and much of my creative work stored on it was lost. This became a recurring event, and such a thing never happened until I first learned about S. Somehow, even after I got a new phone, S still finds a way to interfere with my progress on creative works by causing it to freeze at random intervals.
James Clerk Maxwell

These puzzles are definitely a bit difficult, but nothing that James thinks you can't handle. He advises to watch out for S, as he comes when you least expect it!

Bio:

James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish scientist that studied mathematical physics. He played an imperative role in the development of his theory of electromagnetic radiation. Using concepts of electricity, magnetism, and light, he was able to develop unifying equations for electromagnetism.

Childhood & Education:

James Clerk Maxwell was born to the family of Penicuik, holders of the baronetcy (title granted by the British crown) of Clerk of Penicuik. From a young age Maxwell showed great interest and curiousity in anything and everything that moved, shone, floated, etc. His mother took notice of his inquisitiveness, and therefore took responsibility of Maxwell's education.

However, due to Maxwell's quirky mannerisms form his isolated childhood, he did not fit well in school. In terms of school subjects, Maxwell took a great interest in geometry, and later won multiple awards for English and Poetry at the young age of 13. Maxwell then went on to publish his first scientific paper at the age of 14. At age 16, Maxwell went on to attend the University of Edinburgh, and later, Universitty of Cambridge.

Awards & Notable Achievements:

* (1860) Royal Society's Rumford Medal
* Conceptual Model for Electromagnetic Induction
* Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
* (1861) Presenting the First Durable Colour Photograph

Contributions to The Tessera:

Helped pioneer levels that played with light and fitting pieces together. Maxwell always liked geometry and putting shapes together, therefore he had a blast planning the pipes puzzles for level two. He thought that putting the different shapes together would help others use logical thinking, in order to learn how small pieces can make a bigger whole.

As for the organization, Maxwell has regularly submitted new updates from his works of electromagnetic radiation, and has contributed his knowledge of how to apply his theories to better assist others in problem-solving. He also used his knowledge of presenting colored photographs, and most of the older photos of the organization were developed by him.
The Tessera ARG Wiki

## Welcome to the The Tessera ARG Wiki!

Hi to all you Tessera members, especially the new ones! I got so excited by my experience that I wanted to make a place where we could all talk to each other--there's just so much Ada doesn't have time to tell us! This wiki is to collect clues and information about the secret society of the Tessera and its fight against S. But I need your help to gather evidence! I've got some pages started for us, but if you discover something new, feel free to add new ones.

Tessera Members: Give us the story of the Tessera members you've come across!

Sightings: Have you seen S? Let us know so we can work to defeat it!

Memes: Bringing some humor to the fight.

Social Media: Tracking social media accounts belonging to Tessera members.

Fan Art: Express your creativity; all forms of innovation are welcome here!

## How can I play?

Go to http://thetessera.org and register! Then come back here and tell your stories.

Looks like if you're lucky enough to be in California and visit the Computer History Museum, you can play a version there too!
## Help me! I'm stuck!

Did you know there was an in-game forum? You can access it by clicking on the group of three people icon on your menu.

I've also discovered a group calling itself "Tessera Source" has made a series of walkthrough videos! You can find them at this YouTube channel.
Lord Byron

Biography: George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron, was regarded as one of the greatest British poets, and was also a politician. Early in his career, he traveled across Europe, particularly around the Mediterranean regions, and spent time in Albania and Athens. In 1812, he published the first two parts of his narrative poem, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", which garnered him celebrity status. To escape from debt, he married Annabella Millbanke in 1815, who gave birth to their daughter Ada (Ada Lovelace). However, they separated a year later. Plagued by scandal and debt, Byron left England for good.

In 1816, he stayed with his personal physician in Switzerland, where he befrinded the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Byron, Shelley, and the poet Leigh Hunt started a newspaper called *The Liberal* a few years later in Italy.

In 1823, He joined Alexandros Mavrokordatos of Greece to fight against the Ottomans. He sold his estate in Scotland to financially aid the Greek cause. Before he could take command of his own rebel army, he contracted a series of illnesses, which eventually led to his death.

**Contributions to the Tessera:** One of Byron's greatest works was Don Juan, a 17 part poem regarded as the epic of it's time. The satirical nature of the poem regarding its subject matter, as well as the subject matter itself, was considered "immoral" by the society of the time. Outside of his works, Byron's eccentric life lent towards the creation of a literary archetype, the "Byronic Hero" which depicts a talented character, but flawed character; the flaws being a shady past, arrogance, overconfidence, being in exile, self-destructive behavior, etc. In essence, Byron's creative, thought provoking poetry, and his very life are used as inspiration for countless creative works, and the light of inspiration keeps S at bay.
Emily Dickinson

**Biography:**

 Emily Dickinson, born 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, is a renowned and prolific poet whose works were published after her death. Dickinson was a great student, and attended Amherst Academy for 7 years and then went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for 1 year. It is unclear as to why she left, some think it may have to do with her father.

Dickinson began her writing as a teenager, inspired by poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. After she left Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Dickinson led a very secluded life in which she did not talk to many people, and mostly stayed inside and wrote. She stayed in touch with some, but mostly in letters. Also, during this time period Dickinson kept up her studies outside of writing, and studied botany by herself and produced a very well-detailed herbarium.

In 1886, at the age of 55, Dickinson died of kidney disease. After her death, her sister, Lavinia Dickinson, discovered all of the hundreds of poems that Emily had been writing over the years. She published them in 1890, and a full compilation of the poems was finally published in 1955, called The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson's writing style and voice greatly influenced the next generation of poetry and her works are still discussed to the present due to their profound impact and impeccable writing.

**Contributions to the Tessera:**

 Emily Dickinson used her astounding writing abilities to help create many of the word puzzles in the Tessera. Her knowledge and use of the English language has been extremely helpful in the mission to stop S.

**Source(s):**

 http://www.biography.com/people/emily-dickinson-9274190#writing-and-influences
Chien-Siung Wu

**Nickname:** First Lady of Physics

**Family Life and Education:** Wu was born on May 12, 1912 in the Jiansu Province in China. Her parents not only believed in gender equality and education for girls in a time where that was unusual, but built a school for that exact purpose. Wu was educated there until she turned 11, when she moved to a boarding school. She went to several universities in China before leaving her family to move to the United States in order to continue her studies in physics. She finished her Ph.D. in 1940 at the University of California, Berkeley. Two years later, she married a colleague, Luke Chia-Lie Yuan. Throughout her life she fought for women's rights and equal pay. She died on February 16, 1997.

**Career and Achievements:** Wu began working at Columbia University in 1944, and, while there, was recruited into the Manhattan Project, where she did work on the separation of Uranium into its isotopes through gaseous diffusion. At Columbia, she also did some of her most famous work alongside several male colleagues on testing and debasing the “Law of Conservation of Parity,” which stated that there was an inherent symmetry in all behaviors in nature. Her colleagues received a Nobel Prize in 1957 for their work creating the theory, but Wu did not. She later won the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978 for her work experimenting on the theory, as well as many other awards throughout her life. She was considered one of the best experimental physicists in the world!

**Contributions to the Tessera:** Wu configured a miniature nuclear reactor that powers all the electricity in Horsley Towers! Its power lights the central lantern at the top of the Towers, which keeps S at bay, and is an integral part of the Towers. Remember, only light can drive S away.
Tessera Members By Number

We are still missing many members. If you find any, help us fill out this chart!

1. Ada Lovelace
2. Grace Hopper
3. Charles Babbage
4. Lord Byron
5. Florence Nightingale
6. ?
7. Samuel Morse
8. ?
9. Hedy Lamarr
10. Alan Turing
11. Albert Einstein
12. Thomas Edison
13. ?
14. Edgar Allan Poe
15. Joan Clarke
16. Marie Curie
17. ?
18. ?
19. ?
20. ?
21. Chien-Shiung Wu
22. ?
23. ?
24. William Morris
25. ?
26. ?
27. Steve Jobs
28. ?
29. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
30. ?
31. ?
32. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
33. ?
34. ?
35. Carl\_Gauss
36. Mae Jemison
37. ?
38. Beulah Louise Henry
39. ?
40. ?
41. ?
42. ?
43. Gunpei Yokoi
44. ?
45. ?
46. ?
47. ?
48. Melba Roy Mouton
49. Jane Austen
50. ?
51. ?
52. ?
53. Gustave Eiffel
54. Emily Dickinson
55. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
56. ?
57. ?
58. Mark Twain
59. ?
60. ?
61. ?
62. ?
63. ?
64. ?
65. George Washington Carver
66. Mark Zuckerberg
67. ?
68. Jules Verne
69. ?
70. ?
71. ?
72. ?
73. Ella Fitzgerald
74. ?
75. ?
76. Michael Faraday
77. Anita Borg
78. ?
79. Mary Cartwright
80. ?
81. ?
82. ?
83. ?
84. ?
85. Srinivasa Ramanujan
86. Frances Hugle
87. ?
88. Jean Bartik
89. ?
90. ?
91. ?
92. Les Paul
93. ?
94. James Clerk Maxwell
95. ?
96. ?
97. ?
98. ?
ExtraCode = ('S?');

I’d spent hours on some coding homework, so I decided to take a little break.  When I came back and tried to run the code, the computer stalled, and the “busy” signal flashed for what seems like an eternity.  Then a bunch of disorganized numerical values were returned that I had no code for.  It must have been S lurking about.  They completely disrupted my results!  I had to go back and add this line of code:

function  =  lights\_on(S)

after that, my code worked and the random numbers were gone!
Gorgon

**Gorgon** is the main antagonist of the 2013 computer-animated film, *Walking with Dinosaurs The 3D Movie* (also known as *Walking With Dinosaurs The Movie*, *Walking With Dinosaurs 3D*, or just simply *Walking With Dinosaurs*).

## Biography

Gorgon is first seen when Patchi and his brother, Scowler, get caught up in a huge fire when migrating with their herd to the feeding grounds. Gorgon attacks the two brothers while they are separated from their family and prepares to eat them when their father, Bulldust, who is also the leader of the herd, steps in to protect his sons and battles the evil dinosaur. After a fierce fight, Gorgon clamps his jaws down on Bulldust's neck, killing him.

Later, Gorgon is shown catching a pterosaur to feed himself and his henchmen. He discovers Patchi alongside Juniper's herd and is given the right moment to attack. Gorgon and his thugs charge at the herd, causing them to run in fear. There is mayhem as Gorgon's henchmen separate the weak and young from the herd and prepare to kill them. Patchi, Juniper, and Scowler fall into a raging river and are swept away, but survive.

In the final confrontation, years later, Gorgon and his henchmen ambush the herd once again. He turns on Scowler and attacks him, but before he can finish him off, Patchi rushes to the rescue. He head-butts the wicked dinosaur and, aided by Juniper, drive off his two thugs. Gorgon makes one final lunge in an attempt to kill Patchi, who, thinking of his father, brother, and girlfriend, charges at Gorgon, knocking out some of his teeth and breaking his right arm with the hole in his frill. Gorgon, in defeat, runs away into the forest never to be seen again.

Millions of years later his skull is found by a palaeontologist named Zack, his niece Jade and nephew Ricky.
Steve Jobs

## Biography

Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. His revolutionary products iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology. Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs was smart but always at war with self identity. Dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in the his family's garage. They funded their entrepreneurial journey by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, and accessible to everyday consumers.

In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counterculture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM's PCs, the Macintosh was still not IBM-compatible. Many believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and the company's executives began to phase him out. Not actually having had an official title with the company he co-founded, Jobs was pushed into a more marginalized position and thus left Apple in 1985.

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Contribution to the Tessera ==

Steve Jobs had a powerful impact in Tessera's computational world. In level 5, The automatons Operating System (OS) is the same as Job's Macintosh. Job's wanted the Automatons to be revolutionary to the success and rise of technology in our vast world. Like the many "puzzling" challenges he faced in his childhood, and at his company; he programmed the automatons to operate on code to open the minds of the gamers to allude in his revolution. Complex thinking, and innovation skills are the driving forces that kept him afloat through all the propaganda he endured in his life, and he used that during the creation of the automatons. He also voiced the automatons to sound like, which is now his most iconic invention, Siri.
Tim Berners-Lee

**Associated institutions:**

World Wide Web Consortium, University of Oxford, University of Southampton, Plessey, MIT, The Tessera Society

**Bio**

Tim Berners-Lee is one of the most important Computer Scientists of the modern age. His contributions to the field shaped the internet age, most notably the "world wide web" which allowed for communication via HTTP.

Sir Berners-Lee was born in London in 1955. He was born to two British Computer Scientists. He developed a love of electronics at a young age. Once he was grown, he got his Bachelor of Arts in Physics at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1976.

Once he had his degree he worked writing software for a couple of different institutions, including Plessey and CERN. After he left CERN in 1980 he began to work for Image Computer Systems, Ltd. where he gained experience in computer networking. He was first approached by the Tessera at this point in his life, a membership that would last up till today. After 3 years he left to return to CERN, which was the largest internet node in Europe at the time.

It was at this point that Berners-Lee got his idea. He joined hypertext with the internet to form the backbone of the modern internet experience. The first website was put online in 1991 and the world was never the same. Berners-Lee went to found the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT. He has since won many award for his contributions including a knighthood. He is also a vocal advocate for net neutrality.

**Contributions to the Tessera**

Before Berners-Lee made the WWW, he used the international Tessera Society as a small-scale prototype. He created a separate system that is similar to what the WWW would come to be, that allowed Tessera members to communicate through hypertext across national boundaries. His contributions played a major role in allowing members from outside the UK to participate without having to make the trek to Horsley Towers.
S in the Practice Room!

Late last night, my friend Luke and I were in the music building listening to music and playing various percussion instruments. I was watching Luke play drum set for a while--he was really jamming. I then went to the next practice room to work on some marimba music--and THERE'S S IN THE DOORWAY! Just waiting for me to come in! I just grabbed Luke and our stuff as fast as we could. We got out of there.
My desk has become a black hole

Every time I try to put something on my desk in an orderly fashion, I feel a sudden tug on my arm and wind blows strongly in my room (even with all the windows closed!) and all my stuff gets randomly distributed on my desk. At one point I gave up on having things in a nice order, and subsequently I discovered *I cannot find anything,* and that *my desk has become a blackhole:* if you drop something on it, you will never get it back! Now I lose my keys, the papers I need to study, my phone, everything. Clearly this is S's doing, because *everything* is going in a disorderly fashion to the maximum! What else could it possibly be?!
Alan Turing

**Biography: Alan Turing was born in London, England and is known for being the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.**

Born in 1912, Turing was the the son of a parents that traveled from civil service commission purposes, and thus Alan and his brother stayed with a retired Army couple for much of his youth. He had a natural inclination towards science and math. His passion was pushed further following the death of his peer and beloved friend, Christopher Morcom.

Following his public school education, Turing attended King's College, Cambridge and by 1936 at the age of 23, Turing published his paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the *Entsheidungsproblem",* in which he discussed proofs and computation. This lead to devices later known as Turing machines which was a universal computing machine that was capable of solved complicated mathematical computations as algorithms.

He later obtained his PhD at Princeton University, where he led the conversation on ordinal logic and relative computing.

Further than his educational pursuits in computer science, cryptology was a big interest of Alan Turing. Turing was a large component of breaking German ciphers during WWII. He later wrote papers discussing the approaches he used involving math, specifically statistical techniques, to become so proficient at cryptography. He also devised a technique called Turingery for Lorenz cipher messages produced by Germany.

Alan also enjoyed running and was awarded the OBE by King George VI in 1945 for his services during the War. From 1945-1947, Turing worked in London at the National Physical Laboratory where he presented the first detailed design of a stored-program computer. In 1948 he worked at the Victoria University of Manchester to work on software for stored-program computer known as the Machester Mark 1.

 Turing was one of the first to define and address "artificial intelligence", which marked machines as intelligent and having the ability to think through problems. Part of this work was known as the Turing test.

**Contributions to the Tessera: As the father of a lot of early artificial intelligence work and excellent ability for coding, Alan Turning created the machine to create tiles as seen in level three of The Tessera. However, soon after creating the machine, the S wasn't far behind and preceded to remove the gears that Turning put in place to provide various numerical values to solve the puzzles. Due to the destruction of the machine, Turing fled to go and ensure the safety of his other inventions, since he knew that his fellow Tessera members would be able to fix the machine.**
The Haunting in My Dreams

So I started playing The Tessera about a week and a half ago. Ever since... weird things have been occurring in my dreams. Sometimes I dream about myself running... for miles and miles. It seems like I'm running from something, but I don't know what. Then all of a sudden, I'll wake up! Shaking with fear and dripping in sweat, I find myself in a state of panic! What is happening to me??? These are a few reoccurring images that I keep seeing in my dreams. Please, if anybody is experiencing this same thing, HELP!!! I am losing my mind!
Dag

Dag is the main antagonist of the Nickelodeon animated movie Barnyard. He is Otis' arch-nemesis and the coyotes' former leader and boss. He is voiced by David Koechner.

## Biography

In the movie, he nearly steals the hens, only to be stopped by Otis' foster father Ben. "You know how much we like the hens? (chuckles) You know me: Ladykiller." "You seem to have a bit of disadvantage, Ben: There's 6 of us, and only 1 old, fat you." Ben sacrifices himself to save the hens, and dies after his fight with Dag.

Later, Ben's adoptive son Otis tries to take vengeance on Dag, but he lost his burst of courage as soon as the coyotes notice him. Dag sadistically shames Otis by telling him that things would have been different if he was there for Ben. "Okay, from here on out, this is the way it's gonna work. We show up, you look the other way. A few animals missing here and there." "Hey, it's the natural order of things. It'll be our little secret." "Oh, and Ben's kid, if you should think about getting a sudden burst of courage..." "...we slaughter every animal in sight." "See you around. Round? Get it? You're fat?" He then makes a "Deal," with Otis, telling him that he'd only steal a few animals each night, but if he tried to do something about it, he and his pack would slaughter every animal in sight, including possibly the farmer. Otis decided to leave the Barnyard, realizing he has no chance.

The next morning, however Otis is informed that the coyotes took some hens and his chick friend Maddy, making Otis realize Dag tricked and double-crossed him, since he wasn't expecting him and the coyotes until tonight. Otis went off to the junkyard to rescue the chickens.

"I love chicken. My favorite part is the skin." Otis arrives at the junkyard just in time to stop Dag from devouring Maddy; "Meaner, Meaner! Meaners gotta eat too," but Dag's goons easily overpower him. Fortunately, Peck the rooster, Miles the mule, Pip the mouse, Freddie the ferret, Pig, Jersey cows, Wild Mike, and even Gophers arrive to help Otis and Dag's goons are easily defeated. Eventually, Dag tries a sneak attack on Otis similarly to how he overpowered Ben, but Otis is warned by Peck, who successfully did a loud crow. Otis caught Dag on the throat, hit his head against a bus window and threatened to punch him, like his dad did; but instead, Otis told Dag to never come back and the red coyote agrees. Dag is hit with a golf club by Otis and he soars out into the distance while howling in pain.

It is unknown what happened to Dag afterwards, but he and the other coyotes are most likely dead, injured, or they land in a place where he and the other coyotes found food.

Also, Dag didn't return in any episode of Back at the Barnyard, but he was seen in several games.
Sightings

Did you spot evidence of S or the Tessera in the wild? Tell us about it here! \* I saw this when I was trying to solve the pipe game--do you think this is S?

    \* S takes over classroom computers! - 2/14/17 \* In League with Google Chrome - 2/20/17 \* Creepy text - don't get S mad! \* Late night encounter with S - 2/23/17 \* Tessera Recruitment House? - 3/4/17 \* S takes over theatre performance - 3/7/17 \* Roommate has a run-in with S - 3/10/17 \* S interferes with study for midterms - 3/12/17 \* S spotted at Division of IT! - 3/15/17 \* The Haunting in My Dreams - 3/16/17 \* The black screen of S! - 11/6/2017 \* The spinning wheel of death - 11/10/2017 \* S\_ruined\_my\_website - 11/12/2017 \* ExtraCode = ('S?'); - 11/13/17 \* S destroyed my wiki post \* S Making the Game Glitch! \* S Made me forget my homework \* S Causing a Blackout \* S is Draining Technology From my Car \* S is Living in my Closet \* S Corrupting My Phone \* S Photobombs My Parents?! \* S in the Practice Room! - 11/13/17 \* S causes turbulence!
In League with Google Chrome

So I was on my computer when Google Chrome totally glitched out (*again*), and it wouldn’t let me force quit.  This has happened to me once before, where the Chrome icon just keeps bouncing in the dock, but it never opens and it won’t quit either.  The only way to fix it is to shut your computer down, but my mac won’t shut down while programs are still open—meaning that while Chrome is glitching, the only option is to hold the power button until it cuts out.

So I did a hard shut down, waited 10 seconds, and then started my computer up again.  And then my computer froze in the log in screen.

Not properly froze, mind you; the clock kept right on ticking, but the mouse was stuck in the top corner, and it wouldn’t let me type anything.  My mac is usually a little slow coming up, so I gave it a minute before I started to worry.

It was stuck like this for FIVE MINUTES.

I know, because I was watching the clock the whole time.

Finally, I took it down hard a *second time*, and restarted again. This time it came up fine and let me log in.

Scariest 20 minutes of my life.
Thunderclap

Thunderclap is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Nature) of Pixar's 16th animated feature film *The Good Dinosaur.*He is a pterosaur called a *Nyctosaurus*, who is the leader of a gang of other pterosaurs.

He is voiced by Steve Zahn, who also voiced Monty and portrayed Cliff.

## Role

Following a violent storm, Arlo and Spot are found by the Pterosaur flock. At first, Thunderclap pretended to be friendly to Arlo; recounting to him his story. However, his true motives become apparent when he eats a small fox whole that Arlo helped to free. Thunderclap and the others then set their sights on Spot. Arlo and Spot flee and are saved when two young *T. Rexes* named Nash and Ramsey come to the rescue and scare the pterosaurs away.

Some time later, Arlo and Spot are stuck in yet another storm. Thunderclap and his gang find them again and they succeed in separating Spot from Arlo this time. They trap Spot into a old stump by a river and try to claw him out. With a newly-found courage, Arlo faces off the pterosaurs and easily defeats them by knocking them into the river. Arlo lets out a vicious roar, which terrifies Thunderclap, causing him to regain his sense of fear. Spot then tears a hole in a scared Thunderclap's left wing and as he tries to fly away, Arlo throws a stick at him and Thunderclap is rendered flightless as he crashes into the river.

It's uncertain of what happened to him after this, but it can be presumed that Thunderclap either drowned, washed ashore while being weakened, or was unable to fly ever again.
Euphemia Lofton Haynes

Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes (Septmeber 11, 1890 - July 25, 1980)

**Nicknames**: Euphemia

**Family Ties**:  Daughter of William S. Lofton, a prominent black dentist, and Lavinia Day Lofton, a kindergarten teacher.

**Career and Achievements**: Haynes was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from The Catholic University of America in 1943.  In 1930, she founded the math department at Miner Teachers College (now University of the District of Columbia ) and acted as the head of the program for nearly 30 years.  She also taught mathematics at a number of local middle and high schools over the course of her career.

**Contribution to the Tessera**:  She headed an outreach division for the Tessera that focused on educating disadvantaged children in the field of mathematics.  She believed that everyone had a right to an education, and she wanted to combat the injustice that racial segregation of the American school system had caused.  Working closely with fellow Tessera member Marjorie Lee Browne, the number of African-American members was more than doubled during their tenure.
Fox

**Fox** is the true main antagonist in the 1981 anime film *The Enchanted Journey*.

He was presented as a relentless beast that roared like a dinosaur and struck terror into the hearts of all the Siberian chipmunks, even moreso than their other main enemy, Hawk.

## Biography

Fox first appears when Glikko and Nono make it to the snowy mountains and get attacked by Hawk. Fox intervenes and battles Hawk. While the two predators are fighting, the chipmunks escape. After they're gone, Fox kills Hawk, and with blood-drenched lips turns and looks ominously in the direction Nono and Glikko went.

At the end of the film, when the pair are reunited with the other Siberian chipmunks in the forest, Pippo sees Fox coming, having followed Glikko and Nono. The chipmunks flee in terror from the beast, whilst Glikko, blaming himself for leading Fox to where all the chipmunks live, tries to fend him off. Nono attempts to help, but is vicious batted aside. So too does Pippo the pigeon, but Fox grievously wounds him. Both of them survive and Fox pursues Glikko to the edge of a cliff.

Jutting from the cliff there was a branch and Glikko scurried out onto it. Fox followed, threatening to snap the branch with his weight. Across the gulf was Glikko's only salvation; the other side of the ravine. The other chipmunks, looking on, called for their friend to jump. Glikko finally leaped - just as Fox did, too, snapping the branch.

Fox's claws raked across Glikko's back in midair, but only succeeded in tearing Glikko's bandana. Glikko made it safely across while the chipmunks' most dreaded enemy fell victim to gravity; Fox and the broken branch plummeted soundlessly down the gorge and out of sight.
The Beast

**The Beast** is the main antagonist of *Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild*. She is a cougar (although her sounds are a mixture of those of Panthera cats, including tiger, leopard, lion, and jaguar instead of cougar) who threatened to eat the animals if they didn't bring her offerings of food.

She is voiced by Virginia Madsen.

## Biography

She is a mountain lion who lives in the woods and she wants to eat Stuart and Snowbell.

Towards the beginning of the film, Reeko shows up without any tribute and brings his way out with a promise of bringing double his quota next time. When the time came and he has nothing to show for it, he cons Snowbell into going to fill his debt. When the Beast notices Snowbell's thick, luxurious fur, she decides to make a rug out of him so she'd have something warm to lie on during the winter. She only refrains from eating him when he suggests she'd fatten him up first to have a bigger rug.

When Stuart learns that the Beast has Snowbell prisoner, he sets out to rescue him. Later, with the help of Reeko and the other forest animals, he succeeds in trapping her, whereupon she is sent to the zoo. She is likely ill-received there, as the chopper pilot who takes her notes that they would have to tranquilize her and shave off her fur to get rid of Reeko's spray.

At the end, she gets taken in the helicopter.
Herman

Herman is the climax antagonist in Disney's Lady and The Tramp. His name, Herman is only from an early script. Also, Lady fought him instead of Tramp.

## Role

Lady first encounters Herman while she is running happily in the backyard. She sees Herman, growls, and chases after him, causing the rodent to scatter through a hole in the fence.

Herman has a bigger role in the climax of the film when he comes back to Jim Dear and Darling's house through the fence hole, while Lady is tied to her doghouse on a rainy night. While Lady barks at Herman, Aunt Sarah tells her to shush. Tramp hears Lady's barks and she tells him that there's a rat in the house. Tramp follows Herman to the baby's room just in time before he can harm the infant. The two engage in a fight until at one point, Herman climbs to the top of the baby's crib, about to kill the infant. Tramp chases Herman off the crib while overturning it by accident, causing the baby to cry. Finally, Tramp manages to corner Herman behind the couch and kill him. Having been alerted by the commotion, Aunt Sarah arrives and, not seeing Herman, mistakenly believes that Lady and Tramp attempted to harm the baby, promptly locking Lady in the basement and sending Tramp off to the pound. However, as soon as Jim Dear and Darling return, Lady shows them the body of the dead rat, clearing Tramp's name.
Timber Wolf

Timber Wolf is the main antagonist of the 1987 drama film by Disney, Benji the Hunted, despite having little screen time. Although he is the main villain, his role is small.

## Biography

In the film, Timber Wolf attempts to kill Benji when he was tied to a rope to a tree at the Hunter's cabin, as he runs at Benji, the Hunter grabs his gun and shoots at Timber Wolf but misses which ends up with Timber Wolf running off into the forest.

Timber Wolf appears later in the film when Benji was with the cougar cubs. Timber Wolf approaches the cubs trying to get a quick meal, but the cubs hide under a rock. As Timber Wolf tries to dig them out, Benji quickly attacks Timber Wolf. He gives up trying to get the cubs and goes after Benji. While Benji was being chased, he hides in a bush next to a cliff. Timber Wolf jumps over the bush thinking that Benji was there, but instead, it was the cliff, and Benji watches as Timber Wolf falls to his death while howling.

## Appearance

Timber Wolf is quite small compared to most North American wolves. He is a slender black wolf with blue-brown eyes and grayish-white fur on his upper-jaw and nose and on the lowers have of his legs and paws.

## Trivia

* Timber Wolf is quite similar to Soto from *Ice Age.*
Giant Squid

Giant Squid is the secondary antagonist in the 2016 Disney/Pixar animated film, *Finding Dory*.

## Role

After accidentally landing from the East Australian Current (EAC) into the wreckage of a sunken container ship, crabs keep shushing Dory, Marlin, and Nemo as they swim along. Dory finally sees the squid's eye and its fearsome beak inside the shadows of a sunken shipping crate. As soon as the squid wakes up, it chases Dory, Marlin, and Nemo around the wreckage. It grabs and nearly eats Nemo, but he, Marlin and Dory escape from being eaten by the giant sea predator when it becomes stuck in a sunken shipping crate during its pursuit of the trio; thus the squid is crushed when the crate falls on top of it.

The giant squid is later seen in the end credits, though only its eye is shown from inside the crate. However, this may only be for the credits, and thus the squid's true status is unknown.
King Fossa

King Fossa is the main antagonist and final boss of Madagascar: The Video Game, though he doesn't appear until the last level of the game. His vocal effects were provided by Fred Tatasciore.

## Biography

He was the king and leader of the fossas. He fights Alex at the end of the game, as he has an ability to breath out durian breath, and when he gets angry, he was on fire. In the end, he gets defeated by Alex.

## Trivia

* He was also a playable character in the Shuffleboard minigame.
* He is a slightly altered version of Diego from Ice Age.