Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

In article <JxrCFE.Lts@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

> In article <mo9mt394nlpfh44msuojonl0ajh5mt4mg4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> John Schilling  <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:58:56 +0000, Stewart Robert Hinsley
> ><{$news$}@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
> 
> But it's the eighteenth century; neither of them, have been born
> yet.  Nor Feynman.  I don't recognize Galois.

18th century? Where did you get that from?

Evaste Galois was an early 19th century French mathematician who 
died of a duel at age 20, see 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évariste_Galois>

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Robert Woodward <robertaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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