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    timeline_events[0] = "739~~~Wed Mar 17 1948 00:00:00 GMT-0500~~~William Gibson Born~~~William Ford Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina ";
    timeline_events[1] = "740~~~Mon Feb 03 2003 00:00:00 GMT-0500~~~Pattern Recognition Published~~~Gibson breaks his past pattern by setting his eighth novel in the present. ";
    timeline_events[2] = "741~~~Tue May 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0500~~~Spook Country interview~~~An interview with William Gibson leading up to the publishing of Spook Country.";
    timeline_events[3] = "748~~~Tue Aug 07 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0500~~~Spook Country Published~~~William Gibson's ninth novel, Spook Country, is published in the United Kingdom. ";