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B.C. 25,000  A cave-painting at Altamira shows what would appear
                      to be a primitive form of fluff being rubbed between
                      two sticks by a horned shaman.

         1360     Akhnaton contructed a pyramid (which has now
                      disappeared) made entirely of fluff.

         555       Lao Tzu said: 'There is nothing in the world more soft
                      and weak than fluff, yet for attacking things that are
                      hard and strong there is nothing that surpasses it,
                      nothing that can take its place.

          411      Lysistrata's play Aristophanes was rejected by the
                      festival judges as being 'full of fluff.

A.D.     29      Pontius Pilate asked: 'What is fluff?'

          1530    Paracelsus is reputed to have been engaged in
                      searching  for the Philosopher's Fluff when he was
                      mysteriously incapacitated by agues of unknown
                      origin.

          1596    The title of Shakespeare's underground allegory A
                      Midsummer Night's Fluff was altered to A
                      Midsummer Night's Dream after pressure and
                      threats of violence forced the author to conceal his
                      connections with the secret Harriot-Dee sodality of
                      Fluffites.

          1766    Catherine the Great wrote to Potemkin: 'Why have
                      we no fluff in Russia? Get some.'

          1895     H.G. Well's little-known story The Fluff Machine
                       predicted that fluff-travelling would undoubtedly
                       come, but would not be devoid of problems and
                       dangers.

          1899     Marconi first sent fluff signals between France and
                       England.

          1948     Mao Tse-Tung said: 'If there is to be fluff, there must
                       be a fluff party.'

          1971     First laboratory synthesis of fluff molecules.

          1981     First fluff-tube baby reached viable stage.

          1998     Fluff reached Venus. Wow! (marginal note by
                       computer)