Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

In message <JxqHFC.827@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Dorothy J Heydt 
<djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>In article <qchlt3hb3j9a0dal60rumbgq72iu3f8872@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>William George Ferguson  <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:16:22 -0700 (PDT), "William F. Adams"
>><willadams@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 13, 1:43 pm, David McMillan <spamt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>         I noted the bit all "All seven Popes."  I guess Sparkiness
made the
>>>> breakup of the Roman Empire a bit more, er, *fragemented* in the GG
'verse.
>>>
>>>Yeah, it was an interesting historical tidbit.
>>>
>>>Almost makes one wonder if they've done a list of saints as well ---
>>>who'd be the patron saint of sparks?
>>>
>>>William
>>
>>St. Vidicon of Cathode would be a good one.
>
>Wrong universe.  Hmmm.  Roger Bacon isn't a saint in our
>universe, but he might be in theirs.  He built a clank that
>talked....

That's the name that was crossing my mind. Another possibility - St. 
Frederick of Palermo (aka Frederick II Hohenstaufen) (not recognised by 
six of the seven popes).

[He's the sort of person who might have been a spark in the 
Sparkiverse.]

Now, what other historical characters would have been sparks.

* Leonardo da Vinci
* Évariste Galois
* Richard Feynmann
>
>Dorothy J. Heydt
>Albany, California
>djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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