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Princeton requires a philosophy class as general education. Since then I have also discovered that it is pre-law at Caltech. I was examining the material and wondered how it compared to the study of history.

The difference between libertinism and hedonism is whether is is permissible to have sex with your children. Hedonism, which is Egyptian yes you can; with libertinism, which is English, no you can't.

The year matters because it is a common convenience to blame Johnson for the war. Thus, the movie "Running Against Time (1990)," which a lot of people saw. The movie is still available on VHS on ebay. Also, Stephen King's 11/12/63. Apparently this is another time travel story but I haven't had time to see or read it.

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K, I remember the historical definition of Christian for items not people from Roy E Lancaster - something is Christian if it has an identification number from the Roman empire. The Roman empire is Switzerland. So ISBN numbers make a book Christian. We wish the authority were with US congress. It is not. Swiss soldiers have been in this country at least 4 times when American law enforcement has failed.

I do remember that question on the AP American history exam. November 3, 1963 is the answer, and it is not usually taught. I have to admit it, I learned it from Ben J Russell. On the wikipedia you can search by year or by calendar day - no dice for November 3, 1963. I have a more plausible memory - Kennedy started a bombing compaign called "Operation: Limelight" that began on November 3, 1963. The key battle that shook the Kennedy administration: Britannica: "In January 1963 a Viet Cong battalion near the village of Ap Bac in the Mekong delta, south of Saigon, though surrounded and outnumbered by ARVN forces, successfully fought its way out of its encirclement, destroying five helicopters and killing about 80 South Vietnamese soldiers and three American advisers. By now some aggressive American newsmen were beginning to report on serious deficiencies in the U.S. advisory and support programs in Vietnam..." that's the battle that really scared Kennedy.

About the time that Oxford University was constructed, I found this off of a web page, "For the most part the church was involved in the ceremonies that took place. The Council of Westminster had decreed in 1076 that no man should give his daughter or female relative to anyone without priestly blessing." I'm trying to remember conservative criticism and the beginning of the rennaissance is kind of a gotcha question. They have changed the definition of it a bit, the voyage of Christopher Columbus seams to define the beginning or the end, depending on how you define the eras. This drops the "high middle ages" era. Another issue - the dowry - in the rennaissance the bride kept it for life. Like, duh. I don't have date for that.

One web posting said the war really begins November 3, 1963, the day after Diem was deposed. The problem is that I can't find any reference to what happened on that day. This is a major gotcha question in college. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is not seen as a good enough answer. This is a bit speculative, but it is the best memory will serve. There was an engagement on November 3, that is not listed online as a prewar battle. I think we refused to allow, by treaty, Bo Dai to return as king of South Vietnam, waiting until the 6th to put a new president in power. Ho Chi Minh considered that a complete repudiation of the original Geneva Accords of 1954. The legitimacy of the 1954 elections has always been called into question. I really don't know what went wrong.

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There's an epic poem called "The Chronicle" by Robert Manning of Brunne that is in old English and appears to be an origin of the king Arthur story. The main character is called "Brutus" and there is a "Merlyn" character. The introduction also refers to "...Wace's Brut..." I didn't get a good publication or copyright but the condition of the book at Library West was superior. There is a wikipedia page with some information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mannyng The library listing is peculiar The chronicle Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.; Sullens, Idelle. 1996 What does fl stand for? I think it means Latin, flourit, which means "flourished." I do remember a little from Stingley, which in some ways was harder than the University of Florida. Only a hatamoto was a samurai, the lower level of peerages were not. Similarly, with Europe, only a duke was a knight, the lower peerages do not count. And a vassal is a marquisse. When a daimyo musters, I gather it would include the hatamoto, gokenin, hizurami, and ashigaru; not the goshi. Yet ashigaru do not bear arms in peacetime. I bought something mentioning a "Green Book of ..." in addition to the "Black Book of Carmathen" as the origin of the Arthur story.

Tamerlane by Sokol, Edward Dennis does not have anything interesting about his tomb. It does talk a little about how they failed to get his heir back to Samarkand in time after he died. One misinterpretation of an unpopular position I took, I took the position that students who haven't been baptized shouldn't be in the gifted program anymore in highschool, does not mean I am a conservative. I may be construed as a religious prick. The bathtub baptism of Clovis appears to be an image of a baptism font in front of the Lincoln cathedral at Tournai. Tournai? That would suggest he was baptized when he was a young man in 481. There are some images of this history, where Clovis I looks young. The last issue is that there may be something between his father's death and his coronation - his annointment with olive oil, which is a ceremony that goes back to at least king David. For some reason that fact that annointment predates the Catholic church matters in assessing his annointment. The question is supposed to be, when did Clovis become king, when his father died or when he was annointed? NHS said when his father died and Stingley says it was his third annointment. I also remember Kevin Thomsen mutter under his breath "he wasn't king until his annointment." "Baronne" is supposed to be "baronness." No, that can't be it. So the official title is supposed to be "baron" and not "baronet" which is a lower peerage. I would guess baronne is lower than baronet and that m-w and babelfish still need work. IIRC, also the methodists were trying to make it a practice that there is a consecration after baptism and before sacrament of completion. Never had it. The POV at Stingley was that the middle ages started with the consecration of Clovis I. If you split the middle ages and dark ages, with the dark ages being brief, then it makes sense to say that the middle ages began with the coronation of Clovis I. Then the Dark Ages begin with the Deposition of Romulus Augustus and end with the Battle of Soissons. I remember another problem I found baffling. When the instructor prompted me to sing a song about the Reconquista, Jason and I sang "The Inquisition"' from History of the World Part I. They didn't like the word "educate" as in "educate the jews." Conservatives don't recognize school is for education. They thought that I was a Satan worshipper because I wanted to go to school for an education rather than for achievement. By conservatives I mean the people who were not supposed to be in the class and I include my future LMS teacher. The word that conservatives like to use is "achievement" as if passing through school just happens. I remember another problem, the remedial students panned Schindler's List as fictitious, so when it came up in class, Jason Jeffrey's started goofing off. So, in the end, they decided I must be wrong about everything because of Holocaust Denial. I am one of the founding members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust https://www.britannica.com/topic/Holocaust-museum Movies : To be or Not to Be Never Forget The Music Box Schindler's List The denouement of the Music Box is when the defense attorney finds the Music Box she finds proof that her grandfather was an officer in the gestapo, and committed exactly the crimes he was accused of committing. Also, I remember singing "The Valley of the Kings" and "Ptolemy" in class. Corine Sims said that Ben is my executor because he knows heavy metal? Ben's final answer to the cursed tomb was "my mother." I pointed out that she's still alive. Aaron Weinstalk, special ed student, tried to answer that for me, getting me in trouble. Because his answer was stupid. The remedial bunch did not understand what cursed means. I said it means "damned." They didn't know what that means either. They asked how it was spelled, and where I learned it. I learned it from Robotech comic books where they use the words "damn" and "dammit." When asked about why we bury I tried to say "respect for the dead." I got smacked by Peter Freeman who didn't think gifted students know anything about the dead. I think I may have had to say a 2nd best "honor the dead." The remedials don't know what the word "respect" means. In the game series Civilization, the first advance you need is "Ceremonial burial." Archaeologists have found cemeteries in Egypt back to 5000 BC. Ben was on academic bowl (academic team is a downgrade of quiz bowl) at Ruckel Middle School. That's where his reputation comes from. It's in the newspaper archive. My memory isn't so good - it's like they turned Knowledge Master tryouts into the scores for academic bowl. Knowledge Masters became invitational Knowledge Master Open in highschool. I believe the point of Knowledge Master Open was to see if the gifted students in a public school know as much as a private one. I'm in the paper for graduating NHS with at least a 3.25 GPA. I remember, Ben was a sub for Tommy Holler because she was so pretty they thought she would cause a nuclear war on the academic bowl. Her likeness lives on in the Star War KOTOR video "The Return" as Satele. Somehow they managed to confuse her with Kelly McMahon. A Gorillas in the Mist effect, this fat girl must be the one with the high scores! Some said that with Ben's grades, he should not sub for Tommy despite having good quiz bowl scores. So some suggested Kelly McMahon as a substitute for Ben and I objected to that and got my way. I don't remember who had the next highest score for sure. Andy Tipton was still around. Me? Suprisingly, some wanted to dump Alex who was the one objecting to Tommy's presence and put me on the team instead of Alex. If I had been on the academic bowl team, I would have subbed for Alex, because of his misogyny. Alex found a way to dispute Tommy's scores. When I stood up for her, some people wanted me to sub for Alex. And some people acted like I was a threat to Tommy Holler. At one point I had an M-16 in my hands pointed at Tony Weber. Ben, being on the team is subbing for Tommy Holler, for being excessively attractive. I did have another condition - if Tommy is not on the team, Alex is certainly on the team because those were are two heavy hitters. Also, you need to understand, an alternate is someone who is understood to have inferior scores, like a 2nd string quarterback. The reason alternates were considered were because of Tommy Holler's beauty, it caused a fistfight between Justin Woodard and myself at the very least. And the reason he couldn't be on the team is that I beat him up. Edward P Tally, excuse me, Todd Taly, tried to make the final decision and it didn't really work. I think I took a lot of blame because I was supposed to be the rumored "rich man's genius." People always asked what kind of toys I got. My father lived like a pauper compared to most government employees. James K Senechal was clearly the rich man's genius kid. Or maybe it was Anna Chessar? Her dad was a civil engineer with a better idea than the midbay bridge - connect what is now Spence Pkwy to White Point Road while we still can. My middle school psychology teacher had James's tryout score reduced so he couldn't be on the team. She's not a gifted program teacher, it's none of her business. If I were James I would have had her arrested. Also people put too much stock into the notion that I was an "alternate." That usually doesn't mean didly. At one point though he cheated by copying someone else's answers to get on the team. That didn't work, he was reduced to "indigent reclusive" and wanted his "alternate" status back. I mean, basically he was supposed to be expelled regardless of his score at that point. I think he copied Anna Chessar which once again means there was a problem with her being on the academic team as pretty as she was. That makes two women who were not allowed on the team because of how pretty they look. K, when I tried to explain to Ben that neither he nor I were on the team, he thought I was claiming to have made the cut. No. Some people may have made me say that. He thought Anna's exam would be the worst, because she is a cheerleader. I think she had the absolute high score, and because she is a cheerleader they have been using her scantron for anti-knowledge ever since. I think it was my highschool LMS teacher who said she would take it and say all the answers are wrong. Thus, the decline and fall of American democracy. I was trying to explain they gave Ben a 0 for copying Anna, not that Anna got a 0! The problem is that she is a remedial teacher, she has no business around the gifted program or academic bowl. It really is illegal for her to get involved or to find out what the academic team tryout scores/knowledge master tryout scores were. I think Kelly was classified as "indigent warban." I also remember, when Ben first got word that his score was lower than Jeremy Lehman's, he thought that he had been flunked out. No. The problem is that Ben had already flunked out, and he hadn't realized it or something. And he thought that the Ruckel tryout score was what did it. The staff got that confused. I remember, my future LMS teacher wanted to give him straight A's for wanting to ass fuck his mother. Corine Sims said that they can give my record to Kelly McMahon whenever they want, making her a grader? I do remember, before the class Kelly McMahon wrote an "A" down on Ben Russell's midterm where the score was a "0" which I noticed because junk like that had been done before. David Freeman didn't notice and Ben has to win because he got an "A." Win what exactly? Jeremy Cooper gave a gawdawful speech on how history and the bible are separate. He even said that the Exile and the Exodus are not real. I said that the Exile is real. Then Mary Allen Sheppard, the Calculus teacher, came in and said that history teaches that the Exile is fake. If you hadn't noticed, set theory would suggest that if there were an Exodus there would need to be a prior Exile. But we don't get as as far as IB Further Math. After that I was forced by Chris Johnson to say some stupid shit. His adopted mother, Susan Wilkerson, said, "I ordained my son." Ordainment is ordainment by God, only. My grade was saved, though, but when you are forced to say stupid things publicly, it makes you look dishonest. Meanwhile Grunge magazine has a top 10 list for the most accursed tombs of all time and a separate article on the tomb of Jagiellon. I did well enough on the tryouts to be on the Knowledge Master Open (KMO) in highschool. The people for KMO were called up in 2nd period. The invitee list was compiled every year by Patricia Moore and Pat Baxter. They outranked the principal. Neither one constituted "office staff." Also, I don't think KMO was called KMO until my junior year to clarify the nature of the competition. It was a Knowledge Master Open all 4 years. The hierarchy of prestige for extra-curricular activities was 1) academic team 2) math club 3) chess club 4) knowledge master open Your one time academic team tryout score is used as a basis of admission to any of the clubs. Also, since Anna got the highest score in the country at Ruckel middle school for the original Knowledge Master tryouts, she didn't have to try out for academic team at NHS. Because of this we said Anna had a "bye" like the NFL playoff. Anna once commented that she had a "bye" which was interpreted by some interlocutors as an attempt to throw me out of Knowledge Master Open. Alex certainly had the grades and the scores and I wasn't the only one who wanted him off the Knowledge Master team for not believing Tommy Holler could be a genius, back in Ruckel. Ben cheated off of Anna's answers at Ruckel, which he thought would be low, rather they gave him a perfect score; and it hard to believe that it came from Anna's scantron. My senior year, Alex is the only student from Niceville High School to make "Team Florida" for the Panasonic National Championships. "Team Florida" is more like a "Team Emerald Coast." Alex Penn, Jeff Foxworthy, Randi Thomson, and ... 3 alternates? The Niceville High School academic team that went to the tri-state Emerald Coast Invitational Academic Tournament did include Ben Russell and Alex Penn. Niceville High School...got first place in Okaloosa County? According to the paper NHS was in the top 3 in the tri-state competition - the other two schools being out of state. Alex Penn was the NHS student that went to nationals in Orlando with Randi Thomson from Choctawhatchee and Jeff Foxworthy from Fort Walton Beach as "Team Florida." I think I was able to get MVP one year in KMO. The questions for academic team were much harder. The only category I got anything right in was history, and I got 5. The highest history score though was Andy Tipton who had 6 right in history and overall like 17. IIRC, Ben had 11 questions right overall, and 4 right in the history category. The question where Ben thought he could get me was whether papyrus or clay tablets came first. We had a 4th grade reader that said man started writing on Papyrus. Historians have changed their minds. Here's something in Archaeology Magazine. The World's Oldest Writing - Archaeology Magazine Also check out Oxford's History of the Biblical World. The earliest history is written on clay tablets. I also got a question right about sports history - what was the nickname of the defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings in the 1970s? Answer, "the purple people eater." This was the Frad Tarkenton era and I've seen replays on TV. There were some potential disputes in my favor that were ignored when Carrie A Moore tried to regrade the academic team tryouts. Carrie A Moore felt that there were 3 additional questions that I got correct that Joe Ann Tabor did not count. One question that Carrie A Moore said that I got right that Joe Ann Tabor didn't was what correlates most with intelligence, the correct answer was "beauty." That is a biology question. Another one Joe Ann Tabor and NHS didn't credit for me came from the Ultimate Bathroom Reader, how many times are you supposed to have sex with a girl before she is a girlfriend? I think it was 114. Neither the Ultimate Bathroom Reader nor the sex trivia book have that fact anymore. I remember, the AIDS coverup There were AIDS questions I should have been credited with What disease is AIDS? Answer: Polio. I got that right? ... the card said "intestinal ischemia"..but I was warned that if I gave that answer Ben would kill me by Jason Jeffreys. What is the origin of AIDS? Answer: Savannah Monkey. I got that right and wasn't credited. Ben said it was the "Green Monkey." No. If you elide the difference because of English/American differences you can bullshit your way out of that. Then some Indian guy from Quiz Bowl tells Mrs Tabor "You can change the answer if you want." I started muttering "I am the last Roman..." Even if AIDS is intestinal ischemia you can still cure it with 4 polio vaccines. The polio vaccine is very potent. Religion and sex are power plays Manipulate the people for the money they pay Selling skin, selling God The numbers look the same on their credit cards Politicians say no to drugs While we get paid for wars in Saudi Arabia Fighting fire with empty words while the banks get fat And the poor stay poor and the rich get rich And the cops get paid to look away As the one percent rules America I used to remember the exact reference numbers for the papers at Yale and Cambridge that tell the story of AIDS. That it is Polio was proven at Yale, that it is from the Savannah Monkey was a Cambridge paper. Another source for my weird trivia knowledge - Trivia Adventure. A game that my parents became unhappy with. IIRC, Joe Ann Tabor said that she used official "quiz bowl" questions for the tryouts, and then since the school was not happy with them we downgraded to academic team. Another dispute my freshman year was over a geology question from KMO. It was a geology question concerning mining technology. We got it right. And Ben thew a conniption because it wasn't his answer. Otherwise, he was good back then. He may have even been MVP that year. He demanded he be given MVP his junior year when it should have gone to Amy Foster. We needed a girl to beat Alex! The remedial teacher club tried tampering with the computer. Apparently the server does not necessarily save whether the answer is correct, which means the system may be successfully hacked. They wanted to alter an answer, the mining question, and essentially grade it double correct, more or less disregarding that the team had already been graded correct with a different answer. I even had to much with an EEPROM to try to get the computer to behave the way they wanted. The teachers did not recognize hexadecimal numbers and thought it was garbled text. There were two prongs I remember, one to view the EEPROM table and another to view the text of the current status. EEPROM programing is usually considered the domain of EE because there is no high level programming language - you have to work the digital logic out by hand in terms of nand and nor switches and translate that to a hex table. When you display an 8 bit byte it displays as a two digital hexidecimal value. The people at NHS don't know what software is, much less an EEPROM which used to be part of EE education. Machine learning? I'm not sure. It's not "firmware." And a tech support guy electrocuted himself trying to do what I was doing. 3 of them. Someone, Joe Ann Tabor? asked me to start tampering with the computer. It didn't work. I got blamed. We had some sort of tech support guy come in who we shot. We had Alex examine it. He figured out how to manipulate it as best as possible until we got the double correct denied message. Alex already had a job as an engineer. A bunch of remedial teachers came in and thought it must be Ben! Because he looks the nerdiest? That thwarted human history badly. My mother is the fool who called them in. I don't know how she got so confused. I don't remember how we got Ben to agree to stop fiddling with the computer. The remedial club thought Ben was a computer genius for his idea to remove the "RAM" switch from the EMM manager on DOS. That way nerdy people have no RAM! Removing the switch inhibits the use of expanded memory. And we used a IIe anyway. Mrs Graves in particular wanted to give Ben a score equal to the number of questions ahead of time. Fortunately, there's an international limit to the score you can give to one person so that the total score exceeds the number of questions and limited Ben's score. That must have been done after the contest. This stems from a misunderstanding from my freshman year in highschool - the immaculate conception is not the story of Adam and Eve. And all are fair game on the KMO. To prove my point I had a couple of friends make changes to a couple of books, On the Origin of Species contains "sexual selection" not just "natural selection." Also, the academic version of Paradise Lost clearly had the passage where Raphael threatens to kick Adam and Eve out of Eden for not "consummating" their marriage. Also, the network used for KMO is an old pre-cable modem network. The DB25 serial connection is ARPANEt, the BNC connection was securenet. We used ARPAnet which is wrong. Also, securenet, and now I am not sure what kind of connector it had, had a special extra secure pin if we use a Navy recommended version of an Apple IIe which we did not use. I remember Mrs Boller, an elementary school, tromping into the ECLDC my senior year and declaring that secure means we can score it locally. Wrong! So we continued to use ARPAnet and probably lied about it. The BNC connection is to ensure that the scoring operation is done by the server. Many different computers run the Knowledge Master Open program semi-simultaneously. IIRC, the server was in New Haven, the same city as Yale. I tried to make New Haven Academy the chief highschool of the circuit. Marla Mayfield jilted me and made it New Haven ????. New Haven Academy is a magnet school. It is a public school that requires applications. I didn't remember it. Generally speaking the most famous magnet school in the country is Thomas Jefferson Highschool in Alexandria, VA and University Laboratory Highschool in Champaign, IL. Or maybe I said Hopkins highschool. The best private school there. But maybe I was afraid nobody would recognize the location as Yaletown. That is a joke. John Hopkins University is in Boston. So it's a weird name for a school in Connecticut. We may have said Rocky Bayou Christian school as a compromise. The Okaloosa county private school. IMO, this are is too different to use that as a national barometer. Also, being careful, the national standard for perochial school is Campbell Hall in Studio City, CA. It's tuition is 2.5 times Rocky Bayou Christian school, and Campbell Hall's tuition is a little more than Harvard Westlake in the same city, or a Boston private school, so it is not taken that seriously. I think perochial schools are presumed episcopalian unless specified otherwise because that is the denomination of the national catehdral. The default perochial school in New Haven is Saint Martin's. It was free but has no homeschool. Campbell Hall is where Dakota and Elle Fanning went. Back then it was about half the cost. I've wondered if Harvard-Westlake bought it. Hopkins School in New Haven, CT is $41,000/year which is a little more moderate, no football team! that should be the best highschool in the country. It has a lot more extracurricular activities than Harvard-Westlake. Woah, but Rocky Bayou Christian school is much more expensive than the Catholic school in New Haven which is $4500/year. Of those select school, Harvard Westlake (private), Campbell Hall (perochial), and Thomas Jefferson Highschool (magnet) have football teams. I just thought - forced Rocky Bayou Christian School to abandon their football team - for their moderate price a football team is ridiculous. Campbell Hall with the highest price in the country can do it. I've looked at a few perochial schools web sites. They love to put cheerleaders on their home page. But the prices are too low to afford facilities of that magnitude. Harvard Westlake has a football team but no extracurricular activities. Hopkins highschool has more extracurricular activities but no football team. I coudn't get everything I wanted but I got some changes. I preserved Rocky Bayou's home schooling by yelling and screaming - they may be where it started, but if you homeschool you are still supposed to pay tuition! It's not a bad idea that way. The reason I got to decide is that Carrie A Moore rescored by Academic Team tryout to 8 and weighted (by proclivity) it higher than Alex even though Alex got 51 right. The problem is that she is attractive so they thought flat liner Ben could be the leader because that would be a match, because that is how "white trash" thinks! Which defeats the whole purpose of the competition. By proclivity the questions were supposed to be weighted according to their...IIRC...tendency to impress attractive girls. Carrie A Moore was supposed to represent both the country's prettiest girl and its biggest genius. Some got her confused Jessica C Wilson. Who was from Ohio - Columbus. At one point Ben got Alex to anti-proclivity weight the results, which is to try to give me a score of 0. The cops tried to drag Jessica off for some reason. A firefight ensued, and I shit you not the Roman emperor himself had to come to take charge. Carrie A Moore said that by proclivity, I had the highest score. There were a few entertainment history questions that Joe Ann Tabor didn't count that I got right. Who was the most popular musician in the 70s? Peter Frampton. Who is considered the best guitar player of the 80s? Mick Mars What did Peter Frampton change his name to? Randy Rhoads (Ozzy!) What did Randy Rhoads change his name to? Alex Leifson..wait, I answered Tom Lavin which is right. Ben answered Alex Leifson and got credit. Another question they didn't count right, was "What is the fighting style of a ninja?" The answer, I remember after all of these years is Bujinkan. The question didn't say ninja, it said "Oniwaban." That is the same damn thing. Also, I think there was a question for which fighting style is fictitious? "Ninjitsu." Life imitates art. A fictitious style becomes effectively real. Another question I should have got right is, how many books are there in the Greek version of the bible? Answer: 75 The bible we use usually has 66 books in it, but some of the later versions are growing. The preface says the bible was written in Koine Greek, it doesn't say they used that as a source... Adrian Smith brought in the authentic ?? book bible and Joe Ann Tabor still didn't believe. The NRSV bible has 18 books restored to the Old Testament; it is a 84 book bible. Some of it is claimed from Greek sources. It restores the story of the Babylonian captivity. I think that the correct number is 95. The Kindle version of the ESV is extraordinarily long and I haven't had a chance to look closely at it. I still don't know for sure what the right answer is! Try 404. Yes, the bible is derived from manuscripts from multiple authors. They are not usually considered necessary for publication. At one point Joe Ann Tabor wanted Ben out of the tryouts because he got another F in history, hoping he would finally get an A, which is ridiculous. He didn't need reform, he needed the boot in the ass. Yes, I think they used the ARPAnet for Knowledge Master Open. That's old and meant for classified information. Newspaper archive has Kristen and James listed as valedictorian and salutatorian. There are a list of graduates in '94 with a 3.25 GPA and a list of graduates with a NMSC. Kristen is also listed as having won a presidential scholarship. There is also a caption where she is listed as the student council president. Student council? That sounds wussy. Why not student government? They don't have an MVP listed for the varsity Knowledge Master Open. I do remember, people on the KMO are supposed to get a prom date. They are calling varsity Knowledge Master Open varsity academic team? Academic team is a buzzer game like quiz bowl. Varsity academic team was like the 2nd team Knowledge Master Open team. I remember it a bit. I do remember that one of the things that public schools were hoping to demonstrate that good at math people were not good at any other subject. The truth is reversed, you can't be good at anything until you are a goodatmath. Also, since no teacher ever explained the academic team tryouts to him, he thought that Ben's dispute over one question put him on the Knowledge Master team. No, papyrus did not precede clay tablets! My highschool graduation year was 1994, and I don't see anything on my class published before 1989. The Emerald Coast team included Niceville High School, Choctawhatchee High School, and Fort Walton Beach High School. The other highschools in our county are Freeport, Crestview, DeFuniak Springs, and Laurel. Choctawhatchee is the county seat - for education. The county courthouse is in Crestview. There is a new highschool, Destin High School! It wasn't around back then. KMO may pick higher than chess club. The purpose of the picks is to prevent the same 4 people from being on every team. I think Alex got a 51 on the academic team tryout. K, we weren't sure how to pick for the teams, acdemic and math club and chess club. Also, math club has a 2nd team. Instead of the first 4 people going to the academic team, we tried to pick so that the first person goes to the academic team, the 2nd to the math club and so on so that the math club does not have intellectual weaklings. But shouldn't the math club be based strictly math scores? Yes, and since a lot of students, including cheerleaders who were in the gifted program had a straight As in math. So they had to look at people's raw percentages since preschool. So here's how you do it, the person with the highest academic team tryout score, the 2nd pick goes to the math club based on the highest math test percentage, provided that they have not already been picked by the academic team, 3rd pick goes to the chess club, 4th pick goes to the math club 2nd team... In addition to picking people from academic team, math club, and chess club for KMO, they were going to invite cheerleaders to the meeting. Here's the deal, you don't need to pick the ones with lower grades to get the prettier ones - at least that was true with Kelly Green was around. They seamed to have given up on outstanding scholars on the cheerleading squad after she left. Anna lied about how good a student she was. Tricia Hanson was not a very good student and not the prettiest cheerleader. Mrs Boller, who was an elementary school teacher, came and yelled and screamed at us that the cheerleaders were remedial math. No they weren't. The cops stood up for her. Anna was an engineer at UFL. Amber at FSU. The last restriction - to be on KMO - you had to be baptized, and ordained? That's why Patricia Moore handled the list. I think, to be really clever about it, the way it would need to be done is... The math club picks first, and it picks based on raw percent math grades, since several students had all A's in the subject, then chess club picks first based on quiz bowl tryouts, then academic team based on quiz bowl tryouts. I tried to float the idea because some students (Kelly Green) wanted to perfect the selection. The arguments were Pythonesque. One thing was to sort out the scholarship money we were s-u-p-p-o-s-e-d to get. Based on that math club was supposed to be the most important thing. Surprisingly, there is no highschool scholarship money for quiz bowl. There is for chess club and I didn't know it. That pecking order would have worked. But esoteric arguments cropped up, like which gets you more college scholarship money. Which is a little far afield since we were not giving out highschool scholarships. Anyway if math club picks first, math grades are more important than overall grades. Since there were a bunch of students, including cheerleaders, who had a 4.0 for the math grades, they had to look at raw percentages for their exams. Math grades v overall GPA v tryout score, I forget where the arguments went. K, Kelly Green was a new import - I think Pat Baxter is in charge of that - to have a girl who is even smarter than Alex Penn. Randi Thomson thought that Kelly McMahon, a non-student who just shows up and acts like she owns the place, was a genius when she was the retarded girl the police were looking for and never correctly identifed. When Jessica C Wilson showed up, the genius from Centerville, she was misidentified as Kelly S McMahon. By the police? I don't know. Also, I now remember, if KMO is supposed to include cheerleaders the Navy recommended Apple IIe, which was extra-securenet, was about $114,000. It had a 32" monitor and 756K memory and cleared some legal hurdle for having cheerleaders present in the ECLDC. The Navy brought it as a gift and were turned away by the police who did not know what they were doing. I insisted the school pay for it so they would know what is going on. Here's the kicker, since math club has a 2nd team, somehow Ben got people to agree that varsity KMO would have a 2nd team too, and that since there were cheerleaders that would be the more important team since the worst students should always match to a girl better. In their mind. That's why Ben's in the paper for Knowledge Master Open. See, it is misogynist to try to match the girls to the worst scholars and that's what Niceville High School did. In all the years I thought of something to try to get even NHS to adopt the math club scholarship system without scewing it up - matching funds, the student and the highschool both get scholarship money! In retrospect, it looks like having team 2 in the math club, for each class, was a bad idea. I do remember the initial newspaper article said that Ben Russell was an "attendant" for the KMO which means he wasn't a competitor. The white trash brigade led by Mrs Graves the AP Economics teacher said that must mean he is our best student. Kevin McFarland used that to get my father to punch my in the face. Never take electric guitar or bass lessons. The ECLDC is the Exceptional Cognitive Learning Development Classroom. It used to be room 531. Joe Ann Tabor was the remedial reading teacher and I saw the actual gifted studies teacher shot, she was an old lady. The old lady, I now remember, was Patricia Moore's mother! The point of all that is the young dream The newspaper (Northwest Florida Daily News) has a list of students with a National Merit Scholarship offer, which is shorter than I thought. And a list of students graduating with a 3.25 GPA. Kristen and James are listed separately as valedictorian and salutatorian. I'm curious to see if any of these students made it onto academic team or Knowledge Masters. Upon review, what we have referred to as the county academic team tournament was really a tri-state affair called the Emerald Coast Invitational Academic Tournament including Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. The newspaper headline calls it "brain tourney" and says it was won by an Alabama school. K,, NHS was top in Okaloosa isn't saying much. The competition was held at Choctawhatchee High School. I am surprised it included Mississippi and not Georgia, it must have been we were afraid that Georgia would kick our butts. This is a tri-state academic team competition. I am also skeptical that NHS really beat Choctawhatchee in the tri-state academic team competition- it's not that Alex isn't that smart is that Choctaw treated Randi much better than Alex was treated and I kind of got that Alex was considering throwing the match. I also remember Alex was arrested for winning something once. Todd got him out. I also remember when the teachers asked me to fiddle with the Apple IIe for KMO; we had an engineer from Yale working for me. He got shot eventually. He showed me how to use Wireshark in a fancy way. I had to debug Gnome. Rick Bottone (NGC-Aersopace) showed up and put a restriction on my work. I had about 5 people yelling at me. Three local tech support people were shot. A tech support person from Knowledge Masters was shot. They shot Carrie Moore and she didn't die. After I almost finished they had Ben fiddle with the computer to no end for 5 days. Then Alex for 3, who wouldn't get it to work. Ben had to claims to faim - one was removing the "RAM" specifier from the autoexec.bat file. Because nerdy people don't deserve RAM, being nerdy and all. Also, he tried to use the "inline" keyword in the autoexec.bat file. Which has nothin to do with Apple or UNIX. James had 3rd shot and was arrested. Todd showed up and had to leave and rescue James. Then I was given exactly 13 seconds and I got it working. I had nearly finished before. AFAIK I didn't rewrite any assembly. Assembly is also considered EE domain. EE is considered higher than software engineering. Then again there was a jump value I had to change. Yes I did change the assembly. Operating system are compiled from source code. 5 students have been offered a National Merit Scholarship at Niceville: Niceville Loren A Boyer Michelle M Buckellew - found a picture in the 1991 yearbook. I thought she might be the Rush fan. No, I think I have only seen her picture in the yearbook. Daniel L Newhouse Trent D Patterson Mary F Pletcher high GPA: David Cortes Daniel Newhouse Alexander Penn (Brain Tourney) Mary Pletcher Erik Urban Kristen Reyher (Knowledge Master Varsity) James Senechal Varsity Team Members of the Knowledge Master Team: Samantha Allen Jerry Belue Andrew Burns Jim Colee Theri Cook Jonathan Fehl Brian Fiegel Gerry Hicks Barry Kress Jack Landham Alex Penn Kristen Reyher Ben Russell Justin Woodard Jonathan Fell, a junior from the math club is on the Varsity Knowledge Master Team to indicate something went wrong. I think he subbed for me so my mother wouldn't shoot me. Samantha Allen - I think they wanted Samantha Bosik instead, who is mentally retarded. This girl is also from the math club. A college student! Anna Chessar was supposed to go here. Samantha Allen said "no way" to Anna being on the team, Carrie Wilke told her, Anna, "He can't win." As in get either one of us on the Knowledge Master Open team. Jack Landham - also a college student Jerry Belue - he moved out of the area! I think Ben was on the team because he would be on the National Merit Scholarship list with the other nerdy students! So, of course he must be a Knowledge Master! He was a semi-finalist. Ben was a flat-liner and Patricia Moore kept trying to get rid of him. I do remember Mary F Pletcher but I could never remember her last name. I kept saying Mary Smith. I don't remember Michelle M Buckellew. The Brain Tourney led to the national academic team, called the "Panasonic National Championships," not Knowledge Masters! The way KMO works is, the person at the keyboard decides which answer represents the team, enters it, gets feedback if it is correct, and if it correct, quickly enters the first person who provided the team with the answer. So although there is a team score there is a way of accounting for individual scores as well, even though there is only one computer. Joe Ann Tabor at one point wanted to know where the headquarters for the Knowledge Masters Open was. Ben thought it was my home. Also, some false, salacious questions were generated to blame the Clinton administration for why Ben couldn't get any answers right. Other pointers, Mark "Jeffco" Jeffcoat from Choctawhatchee is not the same person as Jeff Foxworthy, a student from Fort Walton Beach highschool, who was actually quite good looking. I met Jeffco at math club a number of times. When I saw his name printed in the paper I had a heart attack from people thinking I had him confused with Jeff Foxworthy. I saw Jeff Foxworthy once, at NHS, Terri Cook flirted with him until she learned he was from the national academic team championship, that is the "Panasonic National Championships," with Alex Penn and Randi "Morphus" Thomson and acted like he had cooties. She was overweight and wasn't. They (the remedial teacher people) thought I was saying I was on the national academic championship because they thought I was "Morphus;" Randi Thomson having to describe himself that way to try to prevent me from being kicked off the KMO. I think there was some confusion about the Choctaw and Fort Walton people coming to meet our KMO our senior year, rather than be members of our KMO team. Choctaw is closer to Niceville than Fort Walton, Racetrack Blvd v Hollywood Blvd. My main memories of Choctawhatchee are playing Tetris on the Game Boy and staring at a painting of Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger and being unsure whether it was a drawing or a painting. They are cross streets between Eglin and Beal Parkway. The most famous celebrity from Fort Walton Beach highschool is Danny Wuerffel. They Sunshine Marching Band played that at halftime at the Sugar Bowl. There are national organizations for "quiz team." And the math club. Here they are National Academic Quiz Team: NAQT | About Quiz Bowl This organization does not offer highschool scholarships, I checked. Math Club: NATIONAL MATH CLUB | MATHCOUNTS Foundation Math Club honor society: Mu Alpha Theta | Honor Society - Official Honor Society® Website In northwest Florida, the name Mu Alpha Theta was also used to describe a circuit of places for math competitions. The only places I remember now for sure are Choctawhatchee highschool kicked off the year and Tallahassee Community College? The Mu Alpha Theta I visited used to have its own site. There is a US Chess Federation that suggests chess club can get you a scholarship https://www.uschess.org/index.php/Chess-Clubs.html but it appears to be a looser network than quiz bowl and math club. Membership in that gets you highschool scholarship money. That's why it would be a good idea to adopt Oklahoma's driver's license at 14 policy. Chess club has several regional organizations. The company that runs Knowledge Master Open is Knowledge Master Open – Academic Hallmarks It is a new company starting in 1995. The most important highschools are most likely, in a regional varying way, New Haven, CT - the home of Yale University Hopkins - private, yes they have a quiz bowl, math club, and a chess club. But its a funny name for a school named after a university in Baltimore. The cryps said if I want to make America libertarian this school has to be the hub of Knowledge Masters. Saint Benedict - Episcopalian high school, Saint Thomas episcopal elementary school Episcopal school - episcopal boarding high school, I never heard of this one, is this the model for Xavier's school? New Haven academy - magnet Shelton High School - public, they have a chess club too. No idea if it is compatible with Hopkins. This appears to be the chess competition hub. All Saints Catholic Academy - Catholic The BSA is gone from New Haven except for a PO Box in Milford, CT they also have Yale. Here's the catch - preschool starts in New Haven at 2 years 8 months. In Studio City it starts at 3 months. Part of the plan of expanding I-5 to 39 lanes in the Carter era; without the extra infrastructure there isn't enough high class America for engineers and scientists to have children. Meaning if we don't build the roads, the only choice is to shrink our population. Anyway. The thing is, and it is really the biggest point, even bigger than getting 4 polio vaccines by 6 like the CDC says, is your first birthday party is where you meet your lifelong friends. Like the kind of friends you need if you want to overthrow the government in a coup! Where early childhood development gets you: [a href = https://www.musicdirect.com/music/optical-disc/van-halen-1984-numbered-hybrid-sacd/] [img src=""] [/a] Boston, MA British International School of Boston - this appears to be the best, Boston has made changes. This appears to be part of a 13 grade curriculum. The Germans tried it and it worked. They got good pay without going to college. - UK public? Milton Academy - private Has famous universities Harvard and MIT. Hoosick Valley, New York Let me preface this, in order to prevent my readers from laughing too hard to survive, that the set for Xavier's school in the X-men movies is in Canada. The real school that is most like it is called the "Hoosac School." It is a boarding school. It is Episcopalian. The closes BSA council is Albany, NY which is quite a ways upstate. I think I tried to make this the hub for Knowledge Masters, when Trey Reyher (Kristen's younger brother by 1 year) realized what I was doing he nearly laughed to death. Canada Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted appears to be named Ashwood Glen. Unless there is really something at Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted, the exact address of which escapes me. There are a lot of good private schools in the NYC area so it's hard to pick one. Lower Manhattan, NYC Let's find one. Lehman Manhattan Prepatory School. See "preparatory" is in the name of what is supposed to be the best highscool in the country. Aha, look what I've found. It's in the Meritas family of schools. Léman Manhattan Preparatory School located in Manhattan, New York Collège du Léman located in Geneva, Switzerland Instituto San Roberto two campuses located in Valle Alto (Monterrey) and San Augustín, Mexico Lake Mary Preparatory School located in Lake Mary, Florida Léman International School located in Chengdu, China North Broward Preparatory School located in Coconut Creek, Florida Rancho Solano Preparatory School located in Scottsdale, Arizona Henderson International School located in Henderson, Nevada The Village School located in Houston, Texas Windermere Preparatory School located in Windermere, Florida Joey Johnson and I thought this should be the hub of KMO because they had earned it as a member of the Meritas family of schools. Centerville, OH Centerville High School (public) - my home town! Dayton STEM (public) not sure why they put this here. Centerville High School you can tell from the site description is one of the best in the country. They could have learned more from Lincoln High School in Tallahassee how to run a public school. The Miami Valley School (private) Alexendria, VA (this is the DC area) Thomas Jefferson Highschool - magnet Champaign, IL University Laboratory School (magnet) - I've seen a list of national prep schools and this is the school there that is famous Academy High (private) - this and a few others make me wonder if the old rankings I saw left a few out The Highschool of Saint Thomas Moore (Catholic) Tallahassee, FL, home of the FSU Seminoles, there's more... Lincoln High School (public) they kicked our butts in math competitions. They also beat Centerville when Centerville tried to participate. With Dayton and Wright State University in the areas Centerville is the considered the better funded school. Centerville High School did send a team to Tallahassee. Lincoln did consider them so abusive they should have been shut down. Mrs Garland was shot 3 times. At one point the Florida National Guard did open fire on the US army. The next year it was the Swiss army. They were there because Todd M Taly had to remain safe. Some of said they were Swedish to prevent Evelyn Boetcher from punching them in the face. McClay School - largest private school Holy Comforter Episcopal School - largest perochial Holy Trinity - largest Catholic Emerald Coast (always a hotbed of unrest) Rocky Bayou Christian school (perochial with home schooling option) The home schooling option is something you pay for, I think it is higher tuition rather than lower tuition than the standard $20,000/year. It is in Niceville, FL, the name is the name of the nearby housing development. Technically, I think Rocky Bayou is the name of our city and Niceville is the name of the township. So our address should be Rocky Bayou. Niceville High School (public) Choctawhatchee (public county seat) World's whitest beaches in Destin, FL. Much better for your feet in the summer. You should still wear sandles on the beach. There are reasonably priced weddings on the beach. Studio City, CA (township of Los Angeles, CA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_City%2C_Los_Angeles#Schools The boy scout council is labeled "Van Nuys.'" Is that what this area used to be called? Harvard Westlake (private) I think they have moved the location. It used to be in just the northern part of the Beverly Hills where there are a lot of parks and where it could be expanded easily. I don't remember the middle school and highschool being separated by that much. There is a BSA council close to Harvard Westlake. Closer to the middle school part, Westlake, which is what the boy scouts are supposed to be. In highschool, you are supposed to be working on the Order of the Arrow. Campbell Hall (perochial) Costs more than Harvard-Westlake. Used to have half the tuition it does now. Was shut down briefly and came back with a higher price tag. They do not have boy scouts compared with St Martin's in New Haven, CT. There is an Ultrazone Laser Tag in "Sherman Oaks." I think its new. Los Angeles, CA Windward School - private high school, this place looks like a community college San Diego, CA This is one of the only cities with laser tag centers. Recommended for ages 10-12. Ultrazone Laser Tag has separated itself from the pack. Looks like your own FPS. Permanently closed? No! Closed since 2020. Invasion Laser Tag remains. Every city has a bowling alley. Waldorf School of San Diego private high school Spokane, WA (I'm trying to remember where a famous prep school was in the area and I remember this city as more important than most) Gonzaga Preparatory School (private - er, Catholic!). Actually, this is a Catholic school. I didn't catch that. I am a little puzzled. Yes, the name Gonzaga is...startling. This must be the main Catholic School. I think "prep school" is supposed to be an elite school. The other term I've heard is "feeder school." Either way its a measure of measuring school quality by what percent of each class they send to the Ivy League. Saint George School (perochial) listen to Iron Maiden "Flash of the Blade" Spokane International Academy (magnet) There are also a lot of Catholic schools in Spokane. There is a Spokane Chess Club with scholastic competitions. I remember some rankings of prep schools listing a private school in Spokane, WA as kind of a dud compared to University Laboratory High School or TJ in Alexandria, VA. I don't see a pure private school listed there anymore. Seattle The space needle is in Seatle. Lakeside School (private) Uprep (private) Seattle Academy (private) Redmond, WA (Microsoft land) The Overlake School (private) I think the reason the remedial teachers kept pushing Ben to be on the KMO is that he claimed that double density and high density disks were the same. The brain tourney team from NHS was Samantha Allen, David Barge, Andrew Burns, Theri Cook, Jack Landham, Alex Penn, and Ben Russell.

This is something I am adding that may be overblown and it may be huge, Mutiny: The True Events that Inspired the Hunt for Red October by David Gagberg. What did we capture? Most conservative bloviating about technological progress is bullshit. But, I know Pratt and Whitney once lost an engine contract that set us way behind where we should be. The equipment that came out of the Carter era was mostly excellent. The range on F18 leaves an awful lot to be desired. But the notion that we fell behind in submarine technology is dubious. Except for that incident. Did they really have a caterpillar drive in 1975? That would have been alarming.

There is a famous quote from Serizewa Kamo. "Tonight my kotetsu yearns for blood." A kotetsu is a katana made by someone named "kotetsu." They are rare and valuable. It is pertinent to the historial interpretation of the status of the shinsengumi, whether they were impoverished men who were desperate, or whether they were well funded and dangerous.

531 The Franks under King Chlothar I march against the Thuringii with Chlothar's nephew Theudebert I. The Kingdom of Thuringia comes under Frankish domination. And so, the reign of the smurf king comes to an end. 525 Frankish tribesmen, under the command of King Chlothar I, plunder Burgundy. 524 - Burgundy strikes back May 1 – King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign, and is succeeded by his brother Godomar. He rallies the Burgundian army and begins plundering Frankish territory. June 25 – Battle of Vézeronce: The Franks under Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I are defeated by the Burgundians and allied Ostrogoths near Isère (France), averting the Frankish advance into Burgundy. During the fighting Chlodomer is killed. Later Childebert annexes the cities of Chartres and Orléans. 523 - King Chlothar I takes part in an expedition against Burgundy and captures the town of Autun. Now about 26, he makes plans to expand the territory he inherited from his late father, Clovis I. King Sigismund of Burgundy is defeated by the invading Franks under Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I. He is captured and taken as prisoner to Aurelianum (modern Orléans). 511 - November 11 - King Clovis I dies at Paris[1] (Lutetia) at age 45, and is buried in the Abbey of St. Genevieve. The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons (Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I), who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons, respectively. 509 Clovis I (Chlodowech) becomes the first Catholic king of the Franks, uniting all the Frankish tribes under his rule. He controls an immense territory in Gaul (modern France), and delivers a major blow for the Church against the Arian heresy. This is also the year is is coronated by the Ripuarians. 508 - This is the year that Clovis fails to take Carcassonne in southern Gaul, and then is baptized. 500 - Clovis surrenders at Dijon to the Romans. 496 - December 25 – Clovis I is baptized into the Catholic faith at Rheims, by Saint Remigius. The conversion strengthens the bonds between his Gallo-Roman subjects, led by their Catholic bishops. According to the wikipedia, 496 is also the year that Clovis is crowned king of the Franks. 494 - my own guess - third annointment and the first with olive oil, some consider this the beginning of the middle ages. 493 - marries the Burgundian princess Clotilda. 486 - Battle of Soissons and victory. Defeats the Roman empire here. 481 - Was there a coronation? 481 - King Childeric I dies at Tournai after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his 15-year-old son Clovis, who becomes ruler of the Salian Franks in the province Gallia Belgica (modern Belgium) until his death in 511. I don't know that conservatives understand the Gregorian calendar. Without it, there is no knowledge of history. Now I see, his birthdate is unknown. It's not on the wikipedia by year, nor in the book "Dark Ages." The theological dispute was over whether someone's age is an assigned value or a calculated value. Clovis's father died when he was 15, so he may well not have had a coronation until later. Despite losing battle Clovis I wins in history by marrying the princess of Burgundy. That was a serious blow from which the empire did not recover. I suppose the following year can be considered the effective end of the empire in the west, in 532 Battle of Autun - The Franks, under command of King Childebert I and his brother Chlothar I, invade the Kingdom of Burgundy. They defeat the Burgundians under King Godomar near Autun (modern France). The Franks and the Burgundians fought like cats and dogs.