Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:58:56 +0000, Stewart Robert Hinsley
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> wrote:

>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

Let's not forget the heads of the two great competing Houses of the 
true Steampunk era; Edison and Tesla.


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