Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

In article <slrnftmkkj.j9a.dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David DeLaney <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>John Schilling <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Stewart Robert Hinsley <{$news$}@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>Now, what other historical characters would have been sparks.
>>
>>>* Leonardo da Vinci

He would do, yes.

>>>* Évariste Galois

Born 1831.

>>>* Richard Feynmann

Born 1918.

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

Born 1847 and 1846 respectively.
>
>Charles Babbage & Augusta Ada King.

Born 1791, which means he might have been born at the time of GG,
but not old enough to make a mark for himself yet, and 1815,
which is way too late even if she were as precocious as Agatha.

>(Yes, you -do- know who the second one is.)

Better known as Countess Lovelace.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]