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    Philosophy lends itself to sociology, whilst psychology lends itself to criminology. Paradise Lost by John Milton Norton critical edition is my choice // essential theology. Michael is Michael I Ledeen. Angels and Demons (1967) features him prominently. The movie is no longer available. His likeness is in the character creation of Eye of the Beholder - the knight with long black hair. He is the man appearing in the old testament as the "lord, thy God" not Jehovah. This explain his appearance in Monty Python an the Quest for the Holy Grail. I wish there were an unredacted version of this. In the audiobook version, Michael and Satan exchange several strikes and parries in their sword fight, and near the end the angel Uria is watching everything. I believe the angel Uria can be related to the movie the Color Purple, the song "Amaranth" by Nightwish, which means the color purple, and "The Name of the Rose" by Iron Maiden. Also, the show Explorers. At the end, that's supposed to be her. The Code of Hammurabi by LW King. Older than the 10 commandments, I looked here to find out what adultery means. Not exactly uplifting stuff. It has to do with a separated, married couple "If she had been a bad wife, the Code allowed him to send her away, while he kept the children and her dowry; or he could degrade her to the position of a slave in his own house, where she would have food and clothing. She might bring an action against him for cruelty and neglect and, if she proved her case, obtain a judicial separation, taking with her her dowry. No other punishment fell on the man. If she did not prove her case, but proved to be a bad wife, she was drowned. If she were left without maintenance during her husband's involuntary absence, she could cohabit with another man, but must return to her husband if he came back, the children of the second union remaining with their own father. If she had maintenance, a breach of the marriage tie was adultery. Wilful desertion by, or exile of, the husband dissolved the marriage, and if he came back he had no claim on her property; possibly not on his own." Hammurabi. The Code of Hammurabi . Kindle Edition. By way of comparison, The Crucible seams to imply adultery means marital infidelity. The relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. Remember, the commandment against adultery is the one John Proctor can't remember when interrogated by his lawyer, Daniel Webster. It is also about being a scapegoat. Also, the movie implies that Abigail Williams may be the girlfriend of the unnamed boy who was not baptized and later sodomized. Also, the age of consent in Massachusetts was 16, so the underage sex angle is not that scandalous. By the laws of the Roman Republic, what John Proctor has done is adultery, because he is shagging someone else's wife! Abigail Williams. That would let Abigail off. Rig Veda by Devajyoti Sarkar (1st millenium BC) //The first book of Indian philosophy in not particularly exciting but it has been misconstrued as horse love, particularly by the Five Dialogues. It is the beginning of a warrior ethos, but they don't really go anywhere with it because they don't have a war to talk about yet, not until the Markendeya Purana which reads like an adventure. This is like the Books of Enoch. Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous // This is the equivalent to Paradise Lost. It does describe Hinduism, their deity is named "Brahman." There is no creation story - as far as translation has progressed. This is not a completely translated work. by Eknath Easwaran, I think that's the real author The Book of Rites by Confucius This beginning of Chinese philolosophy says that there are 4 occupations farmer, artisan, scholar, merchant The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Chinese) Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles (2002) This is not a complete works of Sophocles, it does focus on the philosophical importance of not fucking your ma. Protagoras by Plato, the origin of "man is the measure of all things" and agnosticism. I was also looking for the origin of hedonism and couldn't find it. Protagoras is supposed to be the first Greek philosopher, and Plato decided to write down his philosophy. The Five Dialogues by Plato, Jowett edition (origin of "swan song"), the hypothetical swan song would be for Socrates. This translation translates Stygian with an 'a' like Paradise Lost. This version has a nice meaning to "swan song'" as the final performance before entering heaven. There is a dispute in the translations over the meaning of "swan song." Symposium by Plato (Butcher's wife seams to refer to this) The Republic by Plato // essentially predicts a future democracy and does not think it will ever equal the Republic of Rome Plato's Theory of Knowledge (makes a reference to The Republic's, "Knowledge and Opinion," which indicates The Repblic is not a complete work. It seams to be saying that knowledge should be construed as infallible whereas options can be right or wrong.) Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle // Aristotle was a student of Plato, an investigation into the nature of good and evil The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle // The first nice Greek philosopher Selected Speeches by Demosthenes // This would be a brief Athenian silver age after the defeat of Sparta by the Boeotian league and before the Macedonian conquest, this is very much about the nuts and bolts of government and the press Ancient Skepticism by Harald Thorsrud (2014) // this preceded Cyrenaic philosophy. This is still the silver age of Greece. The Cyrenaics by Ugo Zilioli (2014) // Philosophy from Cyrene in North Africa. This philosophy dates from the Spartan occupation. The Cyrenaic Handbook by Cicero et al.(2016) // double check on what these philosophers thought. I thought the word cyrenaic meant don't fuck your "ma." On Ancient Medicine by Hiprocates (2015) // Contains the hippocratic oath in its original form. This essentially was the oath of a doctor never to take a human life. Euthanasia got in the way. The Birth of Hedonism by Kurt Lampe (2017) // It was born out of "Cyrenaic" philosophers. The philosophy is reborn as utilitarianism in 19th century England. The only practice of the ancient world rumored to have anything to do with Hedonism is the orgy, something featured in stories of the emperor Caligula, who would have prince of Rome at the time of Christ. See Caligula, definitely played by Malcolm Mcdowell, considered a hardcore *or* movie, or see Jesus Christ Superstar, where Benny Hill plays the role, comically. The Art of Happiness by Epicurus (2012) // mentioned in Les Miserable unabridged. This is Hellenistic, meaning the Macedonian Empire. I thought this was the beginning of Hedonism, not Materialism! Senator Hugo is partial to Epicurus. But it is bishop Monsieur Myriel who is supposed to be the devil. Hugo is the senator in the story! Myriel is the bishop of Digne and Hugo is the senator of Digne. It is a southern French city. Senator Hugo is indeed supposed to be the author. It says he is a senator of the empire - well according to Britannica.com the French empire ended in 1870 with the defeat of Napoleon III; when the 3rd French republic started. So I don't think there is a need to jump to bold conclusions that he is a senator of the Roman empire. Napoleon was coronated French emperor and Italian king separately. Epicureanism by Tim O Keefe (2017) // This is ancient materialism. It started after the Macedonian conquest and is considered Hellenistic. Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu. Confucianism is older, this is the quintessential taoism book because it mentions the "three treasures." Tetrabiblos by Claudius Ptolemy - the classical book on astrology and geocentrism. Written under the Macedonian empire. Claudius Ptolemy was a mathematician, general of Alexander the Great, and pharaoh of Egypt. Delphi Complete Works of Plautus by Plautus (2016) // Far more plays here than the Oxford History of the Roman World would have indicated possible. Delphi is a Greek city, but the setting for these plays is Rome. Stoicism by John Sellars (2014) // This is Greek origin for Marcus Aurelius's book The Art of Love by Ovid (2002) // This is a Latin and not a Greek poem. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hayes (1558|2006) // a stoic philosopher and Roman emperor, this means the defining philosophy of the Roman empire was stoicism, while Greece was agnostic. // Amazon sales rank 92 in books, #1 in philosophy, #1 in Greek and Roman philosophy, and #2 in Classic literature and fiction see movie The Fall of the Roman Empire, and Gladiator, which is a remake. Confessions 2nd edition by Saint Augustine The Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict // I thought Joseph Fiore was a medieval philosopher, what was printed was modern Hugh of Saint Victor by Paul Rorem (15 books) // I don't remember this well, but this is medieval philosophy just before the crusades, and it would be terribly interesting to see how European thinkers justified the conflict. After the fall of Damascus in 635 the notion of going back to the middle east and kicking butt should have been a nonstarter. Not for a 1000 more years of recovery. The Complaint of Nature by Alain of Lille (famous quote "All roads lead to Rome.") Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa of the Summa by Peter Kreeft // confirms the meaning of "marriage debt" Death Judgement Heaven Hell by Saint Alphonsus Liguori // authentic images from the Sistine Chapel of the Final Judgement Raphael, Painter by Stephanie Storey // see the movie Faust, Raphael is supposed to be God. Theologically, he's supposed to be the Holy Ghost and Michael I Ledeen is God the father. Magna Carta by King John of England // The original human right against wrongful imprisonment is here The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus(1543|2024) // heliocentrism The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580|2016) // invented the essay. French Renaissance. Utopia by Thomas More (late 15th early 16th, the copyright information is quizzical) Galileo's Mistake by Wade Rowland // they mean heliocentrism. Which makes me wish that Hubble had worked. Then Christianity might embrace the Copernican revolution. Maybe we should have waited for Christianity to embrace the Copernican Revolution before we tried? A papal bull on the side of liberalism might have helped. It should have been designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech. The best ground observatory is at The University of Chicago. See Star Trek TNG episode "First Contact" The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Mushashi (martial arts philosophy from Japan. This is 16th century. You would need to go back to the 11th century for the first book that is potentially translatable, but it is considered an undercooked philosophy) Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes // leviathan is the welfare state. Socialism before Karl Marx. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli // a parody of the Austrian monarchy The Institutes of the Laws of England (1628) by Edward Cook // This is OOP but I once had a copy at Stingley. This is a true landmark. It is also an academic publication suitable for a college term paper. This is related to Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone. A Model of Christian Charity (1630) by John Winthrop // this is the sermon that is the theological basis of American exceptionalism, the original American philosopher, and a Democrat Principles of Philosophy (1644) by Rene Descartes // I think therefore I am, the defining book of rationalism A Pigsah sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof by Thomas Fuller (2017) // Origin of the phrase "it is always darkest before dawn." Conservatives parody Christianity with the phrase "time before dawn." Originally pubbed about 1650. I think this is an English commentary on America. I thought this might be confused with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion but I don't see a history of it. Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court by J Webster (2005) // A British monarch. Not a French one. And I thought the word was French in origin. I think libertinism is generally considered the modern term for hedonism. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton (1687|2019) // Physics was originally called "natural philosophy" Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke (1689|2016) pre revolutionary American philosophy An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1689 |1996) pre revolutionary American philosophy The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler (1736|2021) // tries to argue against hedonism An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (1748|2007) // He came after John Locke! The Polanders by Pigault-Lebrun (2023) // European skepticism begins to turn into parody. I've read some when I was young and think it is very important. The Spirit of the Laws by Baron de Montesquieu (1748|2011) // This is the forgotten pre-Revolutionary (American) thought, the separation of powers! This is supposed to be the most important philosopher Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) by Sir William Blackstone // This is the commentary after years of reflection on the laws of England done a century after Edward Cook Common Sense: The Origin and Design of Government by Thomas Paine // American revolutionary justification does not cover civil rights, rather it covers the nature of government! The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)// I am not overly impressed but I hear people react better before you take economics if you read it. This is supposed to be the beginning of conservativism but it doesn't say anything meaningful. The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men by John Witherspoon (1776) // A Princeton University professor inducted into the American Philosophical Society. This is sometimes considered a speech and sometimes a sermon. Compares well to the Declaration of Independence when you consider happiness is a euphemism for sexual intercourse. This sermon is supposed to be the origin of the conservative movement. There was no real conservative movement! The conservative movement basically means the conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid! Or the illiteracy movement! The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson (1776|2014) // the pursuit of happiness. Huh huh huh. Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) by Mary Woolstencroft Shelley // author of "Frankenstein." Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) by the Maquis de Sade // French libertinism, some say French call it, "libertinage." Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Allen Jayne (1998|2000) // Discusses men's need for "social intercourse." Ahem. The need to talk to girls? How about the need for the "pursuit of happiness?" This is not good enough commentary for a modern society. The grader Christine Maxwell made a point to bomb out any essay on the Declaration of Independence that didn't admit that it was about "f-u-c-k-i-n-g." (I think that was in AP American history.) The damn video is on Youtube, see 2:20 The American Crisis by Thomas Paine (1776) "These are the times that try men's souls..." I thought that was a reference to winter quarters at Valley Forge, December 1777. I'm skeptical of the date. Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant, (1781) a trilogy // calls itself "telelogy" defines "theurgy" which is a term used in Civilization II Gold the fantasy world. Also has the term "crude matter" used in Star Wars. Dubbed "metaphysics." Considered necessary to open your mind to abstract reasoning. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, Arthur Morey, and James Madison (1787|2010) // Look here to justify the federal power to tax, a federal currency, and centralized banking. For the original human right against wrongful // the most legit name is James Madison, a future president imprisonment, see the Magna Carta. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1789|2019) // this is supposed to be a 19th century rejection of hedonism Elements of the Philosophy of the Right (1821) by Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel // This might be important but it is rarely cited. Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville (1840) // French commentary on America Discourse in the Sciences and the Arts by Jean Jacques Rousseau Discourse on Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas R Malthus Self Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841|2020) // see General Emerson in Robotech. I think he's supposed to be Leonard's XO if they did the series right, there was a redo of the series where that was the case with a lost redo of the series. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854|2023) // post revolutionary philosophy called Transcendentalism, often confused with Naturalism On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859|2009) // this I think is the beginning of "humanism" Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln (1863|2011) // short speech indicating philosophical position on the civil war The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx Beyond Good and Evil (2023) by Friedrich Nietzsche Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill (2017) // This is the evolution of hedonism The Strenuous Life (1899) by Theodore Roosevelt (American president) On the Shortness of Life (1900) by Lucius Seneca Bushido The Soul of Japan (1905) by Inazo Nitobe (modern martial arts philosophy - Japanese) // didn't realize how recent this was A Square Deal by Theodore Roosevelt (1906|2021) // The conversion of the United States to a mixed economy starts here The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1911) by David Ricardo // Written by an Englishman. The world's most important book on economics. Published after Mises, but thought through beforehand. Mises is so prolific he doesn't have a definitive work like this one. This is the book that John Maynard Keynes is arguing against, so this counts as the definition of libertarianism. As far as I know the Republican party just doesn't embrace his ideas which is why I don't think conservativism exists except as a movement of illliteracy. Democracy and Education by John Dewey (1916|2021) // described as intrumentalism and pragmatism, gave rise to naturalism The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet (1936) // This is a call for help for a better justice system, whether the story is real or fiction The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936|2016) // John Maynard Keynes is considered the father of modern economics. The Democratic party needed more help from the UK to govern America even with the Republicans voted out. Very curious history. You'd like to see a demographic of Democrats and Republicans wouldn't you? He's arguing that David Riccardo is too far to the right. He is showing a lot of respect for libertarianism by doing that. He's not arguing against conservativism, he's not arguing against liberalism, he's arguing against libertarianism. It's not clear what he means. Counterfeiting, properly understood, proves that the business community is insane and needs government oversight, arguing for a grey market in platinum coins until the government makes it official policy to do so, is one interpretation of where he is going. Well, they have finally done so. Part of the argument is the intrinsic value of gold is so high, gold can't be handled by most people. The intrinsic value of silver and copper are too low. You need platinum coins for the economy to work right. Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin (1938) Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1939|2021) // parodied as Mein Bungle by Tom Toles The Rights of Man and Natural Law by Jacques Maritain (1943|2012) // This is WWII era philosophy, not Revolutionary War era as I thought. The clearest definition of the rights of man during the Rovolutionary War is the Declaration of Independence. The problem is that this guy is supposed to be the dauphin; the French king in exile. Modern human rights coming from the French king? I don't think the Republican party likes the idea. I'm not overfond of it. Human rights derive from the laws of the Roman republic and the king of Norway. Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean Paul Satre (1943|2007) The Road to Serfdom (1944) by Friedrich A Hayek // Considered part of the "Austrian" school Nihilism (1962) by Eugene Rose // This is the book that defines modern philosophy, it is called "nihilism" not "science." The origin of hedonism, which is comparable, is a good question. Some think hedonism is modern and made up. The Four Cardinal Virtues (1966) by Josef Piper // This modern book and What Christians Believe by CS Lewis are what I was raised to believe. The book by Joseph Fiore is supposed to be the best, but I am not familiar with it. // Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance The Open Society and it's Enemies by Karl Raimund Popper (1945|1994) On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1959|1976) // see Quantum Leap episode "Rebel without a Clue" Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics by Michael Wheeler (1976) // an attempt to derail supply side economics before Reagan had credibility Naturalism and Ontology by Wilfred Sellars(1979|2017) // naturalism as it follows from John Dewey's instrumentalism Quality is Free (1980) by Philip B Crosby //anti supply side economics A Nation at Risk (1983) // A historical landmark is seeking education reform. The biggest problem the United States has - developing AP classes led to deeper academic fraud than ever because the teachers didn't have degress in their specialty; especially economics. In Defense of Secular Humanism by Paul Kurtz (1983) The Right to Private Property by Jeremy Waldron (1991) Evil by Roy F Baumeister (1997) Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Koran (1998) // I remember this one sounds potentially interesting Informed Consent by Jessica W Berg (2001) // availability of medical service Trusted Advisor by David H Maister (2001) Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (2002) // Buddhism Lies, and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (2003) by Al Franken What Christians Believe by CS Lewis (2005) // author died 1963 so this has been laying around for a long time, I swear people have been quoting this my whole life, this is Garretts and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America by Albert Parry (2005) The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deidre Nansen McClosky (2006) Book of Concord by Martin Luther 2nd edition 2006, first edition 2005 original Latin edition published 1580, Geman edition 1584. This identifies the Holy Spirit as the one we call God and explains Faust and Nosferatu? Looks like the same actor. Ahem. The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit by Louis Beckwith (2006) Ethics for dummies Philosophy for dummies Existentialism for Dummies Taoism for dummies Confucianism for dummies Christianity for dummies Catholicism for dummies Balance of Payments by Robert Stern (2007) a modern re-analysis of supply side economics Competitive Debate by Richards Edwards (2008) Anatomy of the State (2009) by Murray Rothbard. I remember this being an older work, back when Rothbard was young, spry, and taken seriously. Same author as Alban Butler and The Lives of the Saints. Must be considered a modern work because one of the saints in 19th century. Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis (2008) // yes, the explanation for the GFC is here Holier than Thou by Ergun M Caner (2009) // listen to "Holier than Thou" by Metallica Start with Why by Simon Seek (2009) The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan (2010) Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy by Stephen E Ambrose (1938|2010) // anti-isolationism. The nice philosophy for the modern person. What is Humanism by Stephen Law (2011) // secular humanism becomes humanism? A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography by Aviezer Tucker (2011) // This is an interesting set of opinions. The older "Philosophy of History" book is so bad that you don't want to try reading it. Asymtotics for Associated Random Variables (2012) // important book on how to use your graphing calculator correctly Write a Great Synopsis by Nicola Morgan (2012) // there is confusion between literary analysis and writing a synopsis Rape is Rape by Jody Raphael (2013) Argumentation and Debate by Austin J Freeley (2013) Bismarck the Man and the Statesman by Otto von Bismarck 2 volumes (2013) // This is the original story of socialism. Disagreement by Bryan Franklin (2014) Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert by Ian Cutler (2014) Literary Criticism and Theory by Pelagia Goulimari (2014) // more literary analysis McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War by Hamilton Gregory (2015) Indigent by Frederick Eugene Feeley (2015) Libertinism and Marriage by Louis Jullien (2015) // why not? Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba (2015) // This is the modern philosophy I keep forgetting, D'oh! Jesus' Copernican Revolution by James P Danaher (2016) // this is a reference to heliocentrism and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion Literary Analysis: Celena Kusch (2016) Theory of Constraints by Introbooks (2016) In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert McNamara (2017) // parodied by Tom Toles in the New Republic Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (2017) // when you read this you wonder how the American welfare state ever got overblown. It was never meant to be a no strings attached construction. It also reminded me of the math club and how it is supposed to give scholarships - but only if your local highschool follows the rules. There is an assumption of national policy and the American idea is that you don't have to do what we say, but if you don't we don't give you the money. Star Finder! by Doctor Maggie Adarin Pocock (2017) // a Smithsonian publication, this is the best book I've found on constellations, which are an important branch of knowledge for serenity there needs to be a better book. The Zodiac is the most important 12 constellations. Perhaps Stargazing for Dummies? It's better than the competition. But IIRC - the only really good book is available through the cub scouts for like $4000. I'd get it. You need it to get an A on that 6th grade astronomy exam. It's hard. Materialism by Terry Eagleton (2017) // Listen to "Material girl" by Madonna. Wasn't this supposed to be the philosophy of the 80s? Or the "Greed is good" speech by Michael Douglas in Wall Street. That speech, however, is subtly defeatist. After the British investor told him off, he switched from ambition to greed, the difference is whether there is any idealism inherent in what he's saying. Linked with the Coca Cola kid, and I haven't had a chance to rewatch both movies in years, especially without being interrupted, I'm not sure what they are saying. Bourgeois by Equality by Deirdre N McCloskey (2017) // I really wonder what they say. How much equality do the bourgeois think we can muster? There are a few technological innovations that I think are important, advances in coal power (by combining with nuclear engineering) and geothermal. Modern Slavery by Siddarth Kara (2017) Present Concerns by CS Lewis (2017) The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (2017) The Little Red Book by Mao Tse-Tung (2017) Dare to Bare: Naturism by the Naked Naturalist (2017) // see Futurama episode "Naturama" Peddling Protectionism by Douglas A Irwin (2017) // they brought back Smoot Hawley Birth Control and American Modernity (2018) Understanding by Dr Hakim Saboowala (2018) Then they Came for Me by Matthew D Hockenos (2018) // about the Holocaust Movies: "Never Forget" and "The Music Box" How Marriage became One of the Sacraments by Philip L Reynolds (2018) As a City on a Hill by Daniel T Rogers (2018) City on a Hill by Alex Krieger (2018) Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee (2018) Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen RC Hicks (2018) // here's modern philosophy, forget nihilism, its postmodernism! Patriotism by Charles Jones (2018) Land, Power, and the Sacred by Janet R Goodwin (2018)// A fair description of tokusei ikki. Another word that is needed is the exact meaning of "retainer" and which peerage classes it includes. Another word adequately described is "okusei" that is a swordsman who is not high enough to be a samurai. I don't really hope to find the word "kotogai" but that would be helpful. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Evan Mandery (2019) //the original 1905 publication was in Russia, considered an incomplete work, this is supposed to be the full version // This reads like an antecedent to "Heavy Metal" or "The Cable Guy" Understanding Logic: The First Order of Reasoning by Love Eckenberg, et al. (2019) Yale ties philosophy into first order logic, and mathematics Welfare Populism and Welfare Chauvinism by Bent Greeve (2019) The Truth about College Admission by Brennan Bernard (2019) The Business Ethics Field Guide by Aaron Miller (2019) Sex Trafficking by Siddarth Kara (2020) // A key ethical dilemma is when prostitution, which is legal in most of the world, degenerates into sex trafficking City on a Hill by Abram C Van Engen (2020) America's Revolutionary Mind by C Bradley Thompson (2020) Everything is F*cked by Mark Mason (2021) // cynicism Anglicanism by Gerald Bray (2021) The Ethics of Beauty by Timothy G Patitsas (2021) The Decline of Natural Law by Stuart Banner (2021) The Four Hour School Day by Durenda Wilson(2021) Secular Humanism by Dale Adema (2021) // I remember that image being much older, so the date confuses me. Yeah, right. Termisheep. This is an explicitly Satanic cover. Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table by Louie Giglio (2021) Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism by Joel Richard Paul (2022) // American nationalism explained here Introduction to Literary Analysis by Louis Hebert (2022) Profits Over People by Sherry Roe (2022) Leadership by Henry Kissinger (2022) Why do we say that? by Scott Mathews (2022) 3 books on the origin of idioms Disinformation by Donald A Barclay (2022) Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism by Erwin Chermerensky (2022) // Originalism is a reaction to the natural law that led to the prosecution of the Holocaust. It is a bad idea. Why not? Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah by Mark Schiff (2022) Materialism: The Downfall of Society by Muhammed Mirza (2023) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (2024) // cynicism Sociology for Dummies. An elephant that is missing is the ... "farm policy holdup" or something like that. It helped cause the Great Depression, and make it politically impossible to extricate ourselves from. The answer is British farm policies, not French ones. The question is, what side did Japan take in WWII, because that would be instrumental in them changing sides. Also, how did we correct ourselves. The British know how to keep land arable, not the French. The controversy does go back to Clovis I's rebellion. Also, there is no definitive book of supply side economics. Arthur Laffer's early writings concern the Balance of Payments. I don't see a 60s or 70s pub on that issue. I think Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics might be the definitive warning that these guys are yo yos. Due to the number of farmer's markets in Montgomery County where I used to live the farms in this country must be doing very well. More than one has a tractor ride to a pumpkin patch for Halloween. American history, it almost seems like the UK did long term sabotage as vengeance for not taking their side in the French Revolution. Republicans seam to think that you can have capitalism without class warfare which is ridiculous. The objective of socialism is to manage class warfare, not eliminate it! It was the French who observed if you markdown everything nobody can make any money. The idea is the workshop economy, not mass production!
  2. dnewhous

    Philosophy

    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.
  3. dnewhous

    Philosophy

    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.
  4. dnewhous

    Etruria

    After reading Britannica there are two salient facts about the Etruscans that are think are important. One, they referred to the country they are in as "Etruria." I've seen the word before on a map of the Roman Republic in the Oxford History of the Roman World. I didn't know if it was the name the Etruscans used themselves or just what a historian called their territory. It's about the size of a European Duchy. Second, their original city in Italy is called "Villanova." These facts are not covered in Herodotus's The Histories.
  5. The third Inochina war is between China and Vietnam. "Since the border war of February-March 1979, there have been negotiations held at irregular intervals between China and Vietnam. These negotiations have been held in part to discuss the border problems. But there has been no sign of progress in this area. Despite pledges of entering the talks with good intentions by both sides, neither government has made significant efforts to get beyond name calling and symbolic attempts to settle the issues." Hood, Steven J.. Dragons Entangled: Indochina and the China-Vietnam War (p. 117). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition. That's the very beginning of the book. Now let's get back to the 0th Indochina war, that is WWII. WWII started On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress declared war (Pub.L. 77–328, 55 Stat. 795) on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. It was formulated an hour after the Infamy Speech of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now for the lead up to the war: Britannica: When Japanese troops entered northern Indochina in September 1940 (in pursuance of an agreement extorted in August from the Vichy government of France), the United States uttered a protest. Germany and Italy, by contrast, recognized Japan as the leading power in the Far East by concluding with it the Tripartite, or Axis, Pact of September 27, 1940: negotiated by Japanese foreign minister Matsuoka Yosuke, the pact pledged its signatories to come to one another’s help in the event of an attack “by a power not already engaged in war.” Japan also concluded a neutrality pact with the U.S.S.R. on April 13, 1941. Aha! Notice, when this happened, the United States entered a protest. That's the watershed event. But, FDR limited the American response to Japan’s aggressive moves to extension of another $50 million credit line to China. He ratcheted up pressure on Japan by adding scrap steel and iron,vital to Japanese industrial production, to his list of embargoed exports. Wortman, Marc. 1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War (pp. 120-121). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition. I didn't realize we already had an embargo at that point. After the Japanese invaded southern French Indochina in July, the United States cut off oil exports to Japan. With the conflict in China rapidly consuming Japan’s already scarce resources and the trade embargo imposed on the country only tightening, Tokyo was determined to expand deeper into Southeast Asia to secure new sources of oil and other war-making materials. Kupchan, Charles A.. Isolationism (p. 286). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition. More specifically, from Britannica On July 2, 1941, the Imperial Conference decided to press the Japanese advance southward even at the risk of war with Great Britain and the United States; and this policy was pursued even when Matsuoka was relieved of office a fortnight later. On July 26, in pursuance of a new agreement with Vichy France, Japanese forces began to occupy bases in southern Indochina. Some more Britannica, This time the United States reacted vigorously, not only freezing Japanese assets under U.S. control but also imposing an embargo on supplies of oil to Japan. Dismay at the embargo drove the Japanese naval command, which had hitherto been more moderate than the army, into collusion with the army’s extremism. When negotiations with the Dutch of Indonesia for an alternative supply of oil produced no satisfaction, the Imperial Conference on September 6, at the high command’s insistence, decided that war must be undertaken against the United States and Great Britain unless an understanding with the United States could be reached in a few weeks’ time. That lead up to the war is awful exciting. I should really interject something here about the end of World War II. From the wikipedia Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day[1]) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – August 15, 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the surrender document was signed, officially ending World War II. From Brittanica, Truman designated MacArthur as the Allied powers’ supreme commander to accept Japan’s formal surrender, which was solemnized aboard the U.S. flagship Missouri in Tokyo Bay: the Japanese foreign minister, Shigemitsu Mamoru, signed the document first, on behalf of the Emperor and his government. He was followed by General Umezu Yoshijiro on behalf of the Imperial General Headquarters. The document was then signed by MacArthur, Nimitz, and representatives of the other Allied powers. Japan concluded a separate surrender ceremony with China in Nanking on September 9, 1945. With this last formal surrender, World War II came to an end. I find the separate peace with China puzzling because if you watch the video, a Chinese general does sign the document. It's worth noticing that Japan surrenders to several countries in that video including the Netherlands. I think this document was a basis for SEATO. The country obviously left out of the alliance: China. Victory over Japan led to the First Indochina War which ended in the battle of Dien Bien Phu. The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina on December 19, 1946, and lasted until July 20, 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Việt Minh opponents in the south dated from September 1945. The conflict pitted a range of forces, including the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh,[30] led by Hồ Chí Minh[31] and the People's Army of Vietnam led by Võ Nguyên Giáp.[32] Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in northern Vietnam,[33] although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina protectorates of Laos and Cambodia. From the footage it looked like the French capitulated rather than surrendered. There is footage of a British CH-47F performing a rescue operation. [youtube] Victory at Dien Bien Phu - YouTube [/youtube] It's worth pointing out that the first Indochina war was fought in the north and won by the communists. Then American got involved. And the first thing we tried was an election. This information is not available on the wikipedia or Britannica any longer, but in 1954 the United States held a 3 way race for president of South Vietnam, the contenders were Ngo Dinh Diem, Bo Dai, and Ho Chi Minh. There was widespread accusations of voter fraud. The result was the Second Indochina War. The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chi?n tranh Vi?t Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War,[56] and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chi?n ch?ng M?) or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.[10] Some other postulated starting dates for the Vietnam War are the assassination of president Diem 2 November 1963, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution August 7, 1964 or the arrival of a marine expeditionary force in March 3, 1965. It's worth pointing out that the second Indochina war was fought in the south, and once again won by the communists. If you want to get particular about it you could say WWII wasn't finished until the legal status of Germany (a searchable topic on the wikipedia) was settled The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (German: Vertrag über die abschließende Regelung in Bezug auf Deutschland[a]), or the Two Plus Four Agreement (German: Zwei-plus-Vier-Vertrag; short: German Treaty), was negotiated in 1990 between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (the eponymous Two), and the Four Powers which occupied Germany at the end of World War II in Europe: France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. World War II was a victory for NATO. Vietnam was not a victory for SEATO. The allied casualties for the second Indochina War look rather dreadful on the wikipedia. And they don't even include the UK or France. I am looking for a Vietnam documentary with the acoustic version of Revolution by the Beatles on it - that is older. The modern one with Ken Burns has it, but that isn't fair.
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    Indochina, Indochina, Indochina, and WWII

    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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    Psychology

    How to Win an Argument by Marcus Tullius Cicero Introduction to Psychology by William Wundt Principles of Psychology (2 books) (1890) by William James The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) by Sigmund Freud. // Early work but this is what a lot of people go for. Something like, "If you dream of tigers, it means you want to have sex." Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (1905)) by Sigmund Freud (penis envy here) Animal Intelligence by Edward L Thorndike (1911) This is the book most recommended. Freud's On Narcissim (1914) by Joseph Sandler (lousy personality types) Educational Psychology by ELT (Edward L Thorndike) Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) by Sigmund Freud // listen to the "Pleasure Principle" by Janet Jackson. There's also a principle of reality. Ego and the Id (1923) by Sigmund Freud // talks about Ego, Id, and SuperEgo. see movie Forbidden Planet I don't think that Freud was wrong but I don't think that he was clear half of the time. Conditioned Reflexes Ivan Pavlov (1926) The Anatomy of Evil by Michael H Stone (1933) Rebel Without a Cause: The Story of a Criminal Psychopath (1944) // see James Dean's Rebel without a Cause. I think this is the first movie that features a drag race off a cliff. Science and Human Behavior BF Skinner (1953) How to Live with a Neurotic at Home and at Work by Albert Ellis (1975) The Underclass (1982) by Ken Auletta Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire by H. J Eysenck (1985) read Edward Gibbons "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition: A Theory of Judgment by Howard Margolist (1987) You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen (forgot about this one) (1990) Men are from Mars Women are from Venus (1992) // watch "Amazon women on the Moon." Inventing the Feeble Mind by James W Trent (1995) Humiliation (1995) by William Ian Miller Family Communication by Sven Wahlroos (1995) Justice Interuptus: Critical Perceptions on the "postsocialist condition" (1996) by Nancy Fraser Emotional Blackmail (1997) by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier Breaking Intimidation (1997) by John Bevere Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel Amen. Almost neurology rather than psychology. (1998) After this, notice the books become rather cognitive. Do It! Let's Get Off Our Butts by Peter McWilliams (1998) Talking Straight by Lee Iacocca (1998) A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Marguerite Feitlowitz (1999) The Seven Worst Things Good Parents Do (1999) Civility by Stephen L Carter (1999) Respect by Sara-Lawrence (2000) Six Pillars of Self Esteem by Nathaniel Branden(2000) Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice (2001) Conflict Resolution by Daniel Dana (2001) Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and The Science of Affection by Deborah Blum (2002), Deborah Blum won the Pulitzer apparently for something else. This research on a monkey has been analyzed by more than one person // similar to "Bedtime for Bonzo." Misery Loves Company by William F Buckley (2002) Listen to "My Friend of Misery." Home Improvement by Home Depot (2003) Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf (2003) Healing Through Humor by Charles Hunter (2003) Breaking and Entering: Burglars on Burglary (2003) by Paul F Cromwell Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small by Barry J Nalebuff and Ian Ayres (2003) Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls (2003) Between Parent and Child by Dr Haim G Ginott (2003) Saying Yes by Jacob Sullum (2004) Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe (2005) // fits under criminology Breaking Intimidation by Bevere (2005) First Impressions by Ann Demarais (2005) Intercouse (2006) by Andrea Dworkin // see A Beautiful Mind and listen to Van Halen F.U.C.K. Integrity by Dr Henry Cloud (2006) Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn (2006) Manliness by Harvey C Mansfeld (2007) Uncouth Nation by Andrei S Markovits (2007) Men are Better than Women by Dick Masterson (2008) Dissembling by Icon Group (2008) How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk (2008) Essential Chomsky Noam Chomsky (2008) This guy wrote for the New Republic. The Six Pillars of Character by Bruce Glassman (2008) // 6 books Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments (2009) by Dominick Dunne Justice by Michael J Sandel (2009) // listen to "Justice" by Atomic Opera The Art of Manliness by Brett McKay (2009) // 5 books Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me by Howie Mandel (2009) Misogny: The Male Malady (2010) by David D Gilmore What Not to Say: Tools for Talking to Young Children (2010) Martial Virtues: Lessons in Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion by Charles H Hackney (2011) Annoying by Joe Palca (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Daniel Kahneman Behaviorism by John B Watson (2011) author died 1958 Franklin is Bossy (2011) by Paulette Bourgeois Franklin Fibs (2011) by Paulette Bourgeois Oh, How Sylvester can Pester by Robert Kinerk (2011) What Women Hate About Men by Martin Ellis M Ellis (2011) Coming Home to Passion by Ruth Cohn: (2011) // Listen to "Scarred" by Dream Theater Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca (2011) What Not to Say: Avoiding the Common Mistakes that Can Sink Your Sermon by John C Holbert and Alyce M McKenzie (2011) How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber (2012) Blame: It's Nature and it's Norms by D Justin Coates (2012) Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post (2012) Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation Abraham H Maslow (2012) This version has a clear publication date and I don't have an original publication date, but this author died in 1970 Ignorance by Stuart Firestein (2012) Urban Dictionary by Aaron Peckham (2012) Shut the Hell Up! Silence the Roard by Terry Tripp (2012) Perversion by Robert J Stoller (2012) // 40 books, see "Dr. Strangelove" Over Here by Edgar Albert Guest (2012) // see The Predator Shit Happens so Get Over It by Summersdale (2012) // listen to "Get Over It" by the Eagles What Not to Say by Sara McLaughlin (2012) The Tacit Demand by O Lagerspetz (2013) // 36 books How to Stop Lying by Caesar Lincoln (2013) Tourette Syndrome by David Martino (2013) Cheating Lessons by James M Lang (2013) 8 keys to Eliminating Passive-Agressiveness (2013) // 18 books by Andrea Brandt // I have an imperfect memory but this needs to be said. "Shock therapy" was originally designed to be a method to eliminate passive aggressive behavior. It is not supposed to be painful or high current or a "shock." It is supposed to be medium current and constant. The idea is to run a current across someone's head to eliminate evil from their brain. It is supposed to be done for 2 hours for children who demonstrate behavior abnormality and a high IQ. Without the high IQ you are supposed to be euthanized. Without predicated health insurance like Australia, though, our system isn't trustworthy enough to be used. I think I had it done for a half hour in preschool. I was willing because my father had started to induce terrible behavior in me. I chose my own settings because of course I understood the technology better than the teacher. And nobody ever set it up correctly. Forget the shock behavior! The hitch is - it makes people a little more lustful rather than less lustful because it eliminates homosexual tendencies. If a child goes through with it, they need a girl when they are finished. It is nicknamed "Figure out the meaning of fuck on your own therapy." That means electro shock therapy will boost your intelligence until you figure out the meaning of fuck on your own. I remember a weird tip - it is exactly 3 hours and 14 minutes to eliminate sodomy from our brain. I also remember, setting the current for medium low rather than medium makes it too wimpy. Also, a full 3 hours removes you from the curse of homosexuality. Or more precisely nobody will ass fuck you for getting laid using the therapy if you get the full 3 hours. The Irritable Brain Syndrome by Kit Campbell (2013) // my father used to say not to trust people who are irritable Abuse of Discretion by Clark D Forsythe (2013) // about arguments before the supreme court against Roe v Wade Homecoming by John Bradshaw (2013) The Top Insults by Full Sea Books (2013) Sorry I Barfed on Your Bed by Jeremy Greenberg (2013) Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy (2013) Give and Take by Adam M Grant (2013) Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (2014) The Character of Leadership Six Pillars of a Leaders Character by Gregg T Johnson (2014) Stuff Every College Student Should Know by Blair Thornburgh (2014) // 31 books Out of Control: Why Disciplining your child doesn't work by Shefali Tesbary (2014) Couples Therapy Workbook by Kathleen Yates Youngman: (2014) How to Stop Nagging by Kelsey Huntington (2014) Ingenuity by Paul Kirkham (2014) No-Drama Discipline by Tina Payne Bryson (2014) Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer (2014) Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey (2014) Dude that's Rude by Pamela Espeland (2014) // 9 books Child Abuse by Evin Daily (2014) Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer (2014) Do Talk to Strangers by Kerrie Phipps (2014) // 3 books // Listen to "Don't Talk to Strangers" Momma, Don't Hit Me! A True Story of Child Abuse by Shannon Bowen (2014) Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion by Gary Chapman (2015) Beauty by John ODonahue (2015) From One Prick to Another (2015) by Hilary Butler Out Came the Sun by Mariel Hemingway (2015) // I remember this being commented on long before a 2015 release Getting to Yes: Negotiating with Yourself by William Ury (2015) Should I stay or should I Go? by Ramani Durvasula (2015) listen to The Clash. Antisocial by Daniel J Fox (2015) Meathead by Allison Brager (2015) The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (2015) // 5 book series. This is what a husband is supposed to be like Psychology: Essential Thinkers (2016) This free book on Kindle and is a good summary of significant figures in psychology. Psychology: A Complete Introduction (2016) by Sandi Mann Ignominy by Tomas Coimin (2016) // see the Scarlet Letter No Ordinary Stalking by June Ti (2016) listen to "No Ordinary Love" by Sade Aberation in the Heartland of the Real by Wendy S Painting (2016) Brain Lock by Jeffrey M Schwartz (2016) White Trash by Nancy Isenberg (2016) Introducing Literary Criticism by Owen Holland (2016) Pitchin a Fit by Isreal Wayne (2016) We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone by Donald A Hayden (2016) The Sack Lunch by Deborah Bowden (2016) Simply Said by Jay Sullivan (2016) The WorryWoos by Andi Green (2016) // 8 books It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn (2016) Parental Responsibility in the Context of Neuroscience and Genetics by Kristien Hens (2017) // 78 books Unfuck Yourself by Gary John Bishop (2017) // 5 books Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G Johson (2017) Conflict Resolution Phrase Book Barbara Mitchell (2017) Mistreated by Robert Pearl (2017) Evoking Greatness by Megan Tschannen Moran (2017) Fierce Conversations by Susan Craig Scott (2017) // see Fierce Creatures Principles by Ray Dalio (2017) The Road Less Stupid by Keith J Cunningham (2017) The Art of Cruelty by Maggie-Nelson (2017) 77 Secrets and Habits of Highly Successful People (2017) Sarcasm Handbook by Lawrence Dorfman (2017) College Student Leadership Development by Valerie I Sessa (2017) // 31 books Conscientious Thinking by David Bosworth (2017) Recipes Every College Student Should Know by Christine Nelson (2017) // 31 books Free Association Where My Mind Goes During Science Class by Barbara Esham (2018) // 6 books Confronting Torture by Scott A Anderson (2018) Atomic Habits by James Clear (2018) The Basics Melanie Klein (2018) We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone (2018) // a collection of real life horror stories! Consent: the new Rules of Sex Education (2018) How to Stop Losing Your Shit with Your Kids (2018) not great, but there are few books on raising children How to Teach Your Dragon to Make Friends by Donna Shea (2018) // watch "How to Train Your Dragon?" Home Security by Andy Murphy (2018) Rude by Katie Hopkins (2018) .// A lot likeCandide Making Conflict Work (2018) Oedipus Complex by Rhona M Fear (2018) How to Swear by Stephen Wildish (2018) The Student Leadership by James M Kouzes (2018) // 6 books Start Saying Yes by Matthew Rouse (2018) The Covert Passive Agressive Narcissist by Debbie Mirza (2018) // 2 books Hostility to Hospitality by Michael J Balboni (2018) How I learned to Shut the Fuck Up by Armand Cook (2018) Doing It by Hannah Witton (2018) Do It Today by Darius Foroux (2018) Tourette's Syndrome: How to Eliminate Nervous Ticks and Anxiety by Quinn Spencer(2018) School Safety and Violence Prevention by Matthew J Mayer (2018) Anatomy of a False Confession by Cicctrini (2018) What to Say: and What Not to Say When by Bill Crawford (2019) Bully Busting by Donna Shea (2019) Stalking Crimes and Victim Prevention by Joseph A Davis (2019) Stop Talking Start Influencing by Jared Cooney Horvath (2019) Friends Ask First (2019) by Alexandra Cassel Best Friends (2019) by Shannon Hale (3 book series) I Never Called it Rape (2019) The Mindful Guide to Conflict Resolution (2019) by Rosalie Puiman six tenets of mindfulness: nonjudgment, acceptance, beginner's mind, trust, patience, gratitude and generosity Listen by Joseph Kerman (2019) National Populism by Matthew Goodwin (2019) The Dynamics of Human Peer Bonding (2019) D Anderson Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents about their Finances by Cameron Huddleston (2019) // a trial balloon - can parents talk to their children at all? Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class by Susan J Ferguson (2019) Shut Up and Listen by Tilman Fertitta (2019) The American Dream by Jim Cullen (2019) Leave Me Alone by Dylan Smith-Mitchell (2019) Addressing Parental Accomodation by Eli R Lebowitz (2019) // 8 books You're Doing It Wrong! (2019) by Bethany L Johnson Say What You Mean (2019) by Oren Jay Sofer // The song "One Thing Leads to Another" Managing Leadership Anxiety (2019) by Steve Cuss Entertaining Guests (2019) by Peggy Healy Think Before You Act by Sarah Machajewski (2019) Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role by Rebecca C Manderville (2020) Character is Destiny by Russell W Gough (2020) Principled:10 Leadership Practices for Building Trust by Paul Browning (2020) Beyond Persuasian and Anger Management by Rebecca Dolton (2020) // 2 books see movie "Anger Management" Find Your Calm by Gabi Garcia (2020) // 5 books The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Sean Covey (2020) Calling Bullshit by Carl T Bergstrom (2020) The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs the United States by Eric Cervini (2020) Conflict Resolution Playbook (2020) by Jeremy Pollack includes the six core pyschological needs: they include identity, safety, and autonomy. Also care, growth, stimulation. Conniving Homo Sapiens by John Donnelly (2020) Consent for Kids (2020) by Rachel Brian Counterstory (2020) by Aja Y Martinez Courtship by Rickey Macklin (2020) Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersons (2020) see movies Desperate Measures and the Silence of the Lambs How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner (2020) How to Talk to Girls by Simon Ray (2020) Making Sense by Sam Harris (2020) Phallacy by Emily Willingham (2020) The Power of Discipline by Daniel Walter (2020) Win with Decency by Douglass and Lisa Marie Hatcher (2020) Judgement, Decision Making, and Embodied Choices by Markus Raab (2020) Irony and Sarcasm by Roger Kreuz (2020) // 94 books Read People Like a Book by Patrick King (2020) // 26 books //song "Conversation Skill" How Highly Effective People Speak (2020) // 15 books // Pink Floyd "Speak to Me" Kindness is my Superpower by Alicia Ortega (2020) // 8 books on children's behavior Horrifying True Crime Stories by Danielle Tyning (2020) Louie and Lucie: Have Guests Over (2020) Bad Arguments by Killian Hobbs (2020) College Success 101 by Bill Leamon (2020) Yoga after 50 for Dummies by Larry Pyne (2020) The First Minute by Chris Fenning (2020) (2 books) How Highly Effective People Speak by Peter D Andrei (2020) // 15 books What Not to Say to People Who are Grieving by Andrew Allen Smith and Pamela Sue Pearson (2021) The College Bound Planner by Anna Costaras and Gail Liss (2021) I Love it Here by Clint Pulver: How Great Leaders Create Organizations there People Neve Want to Leave (2021) Let a Boy be a Man by Eddie Rosado (2021) Perversion of Justice by Julie K Brown (2021) How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies by Will Witt (2021) Advanced English Expressions by Advanced English (2021) Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker (2021) The Summary and Analysis of Rape Culture: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture (2021) Conflicted: How Productive Disagreement Leads to Better Outcomes by Ian Leslie (2021) How to Divorce a Narcissist and Win by Marie Sarantakis (2021) Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side by Simon McCarthy Jones (2021) The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson (2021) Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymplye (2021) Misconceptions by Tim Rayburn (2021) Hostility of Change by Joe Robert Thornton (2021) The Male Chauvinist Pig by Julie Willet (2021) The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M Cipollo (2021) Dignity by Donna Hicks (2021) Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Hicks (2021) She Thinks Like a Boss by Jemma Roedel (2021) The Power of Patience by M J Ryan (2021). Stop Overthinking by Nick Trenton (2021) 12 books // for the jedi there is no emotion, there is peace, See Empire Strikes Back Excitable Speech by Judith Butler (2021) The Bossy Dragon by Steve Herman (2021) Mastering Self Control by Joshua John Clarkson (2021) I Choose to Say No by Elizabeth Estrada (2021) The Essential New York Time Cookbook by Amanda Hesser (2021) The New York Times Cooking No Recipe Recipes by Sam Sifton (2021) Being Neurotic by Terry Bordan (2022) I'm Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (2022) 7 Forms of Respect by Julie Pham (2022) Not My Charming Mother by Patricia Schmaltz (2022) Jerks at Work by Tessa West (2022) Seek and Hide by Amy Gajda (2022) Homelessness in America by Stephen Eide (2022) Forgive Why Should I and How Can I? by Timothy Keller (2022) Love at First Spite by Anna E Collins (2022) Bernice Runs Away by Tayla Tate Boerner (2022) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Environment by Gator Mate and Daniel Mate (2022) Collective Illusions by Todd Rose (2022) Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl (2022) The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm by James Napoli (2022) // 2 books Independence Day: What I learned about Retirement by Steve Lopez (2022) Introspection by Ray Abi Aad (2022) None of Your Damn Business by Lawrence Capello (2022) Empathy by Roman Krznaric (2022) Embrace Your Empathy by Kristy Robinett (2022) Narcissistic Mothers by Melanie Parker (2022) The Affable, Amiable Apostate by Chris Highland (2022) The Blame Game by Cecelia V Robertson (2022) // I thought this title was old. 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It forces you to remember exactly what people said when making an argument Recovery from Abuse by Linda Hill (2022) // 13 books, this describes what is a bad relationship The Neurotic Character by Terry Bordan (2022) The Complete Book of Cat Names by Bob Eckham (2022) Good Housekeeping 1 2 3 Cook! by Good Housekeeping (2022) Chair Yoga for Dummies by Larry Pyne (2022) Disobedient Dudley by Vanessa D Norman (2022) Bournoulli's Falacy by Aubrey Clayton (2023) Yoga for Dummies by Larry Pyne (2023) Do Not Invite Your Enemies to the Table by Louie Giglio(2023) The Art of Saying No by Ravi Lalit Tewari (2023) The Psychology of Teaching and Learning Music (2023) From a Kid to a King: Learning How to Transition from Immaturity to Maturity by Edward L Butler (2023) Introvert by Design by Holley Gerth (2023) Eye Contact by Matthew Marshall (2023) Shortchanged by Annie Abrams (2023) Stfu by Dan Lyons (2023) Quitting by Julia Keller (2023) Leadership Mindset by R Michael Anderson (2023) Memory (2023) by Fergus Craik Do It! 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Modern Etiquette for Dummies by Sue Fox (2023) Social Justice Fallicies by Thomas Sewell (2023) How to Argue with Anyone by Thinknetic (Critical Thinking and Logic Mastery) (2023) // 6 books the epitome of psychology Incense: Bringing Fragrance into the Home by Diana Rosen (2012) Critical Thinking: Statistical Reasoning and Intuitive Judgment by Varda Liberman (Author), Amos Tversky (Author) (2024) Dare to Say No by Max Felkor Kantor (2024) The Art of Saying No as a Teenager by Tom Woods (2024) The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N Aron (2024) It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Romani Durvasula (2024) Also, tongue in cheek intended, Flirting for Dummies, Sex for dummies, Relationships for dummies, wedding planning for dummies, making marriage work for dummies, pregnancy all in one for dummies emotionally focused couple therapy for dummies, your baby's first year for dummies, and parenting dummies. 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    Psychology

    1001 One-Liners and Short Jokes by Graham Cann (3 books) The 1001 Funniest LOL Jokes of All Time by Rob Elliott (23 books) 1001 Dad Jokes by MC Jepsen (5 books) 1001 Would You Rather by Johnny Nelson (4 books) Egghead by Bo Burnham (a nerd joke book) Kids Jokes by Arnie LIghtning (21 books)
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    Historical Historians

    An excellent topic that it so much easier to discuss in the Kindle era. There are 3 historical historians, now 10, that I know about especially relevant to this forum. Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I found his name frequently when reading about current events when I was in highschool. Orignally in English. By an Englishman. Saint Gregory of Tours - A History of the Franks. Disappointing. Modern material is better. Specifically, The Dark Ages and Clovis. Originally in Latin Seutonius - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars - this is a historical work as well and I have no idea when it was first published in English. It dates from the 2nd century. Originally in Latin Herodotus - The Histories. About ancient Greece before the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. His name is very famous and I've known it since I was a child. His name appears in the game Civilization and its sequels along with several variations on it partly as a running gag that produces rankings in various metrics for each civilization as the game progresses. In fact, the running gag depends heavily on how well you do. If you do really well you'll get a list of civilizations written by Herodotus or say, Bill Clinton. If you do badly, you get something like Ryu-odotus. Originally in ancient Greek Herodotus does not claim that Etruscans came from Asia Minor. Thucyides - History of the Peloponnesian War. Originally in ancient Greek.
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    Historical Historians

    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.
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    Philosophy

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    Indochina, Indochina, Indochina, and WWII

    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.
  13. 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.
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    Indochina, Indochina, Indochina, and WWII

    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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    Psychology

    Also, tongue in cheek intended, Flirting for Dummies, Sex for dummies, Relationships for dummies, wedding planning for dummies, emotionally focused couple therapy for dummies, Getting pregnant for dummies(new!), pregnancy all in one for dummies, your baby's first year for dummies, and parenting dummies. I missed getting pregnant for dummies. A technology needed.
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    Historical Historians

    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.
  17. The French kingdom may not have started until the reign of Hugh Capet because that's when the Duchy of Franconia entered into the French kingdom. That's too late for a beginning of the dark ages. IIRC, I think the answer that I once put on a test and got right was the death of Childeric I, Clovis I father. Why that? Because that's when Clovis I started on the rampage. That would be 481 AD. I was graded on the event, not the year. The National Geographic world history book implicitly chooses the death of Childeric I, saying that in 481 the Franks had a new king. The headings here are Gregory’s. "Clovis Becomes King (II 27) On Childeric’s death [a. 481/82, at Tournai], his son Clovis reigned in his place." Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians: 10 (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) . University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division. Kindle Edition. There is a reprint of a letter written to him to congratulate him from the Catholic church. LETTER OF BISHOP REMIGIUS OF RHEIMS TO CLOVIS, a. 481/2 In 481 or 482, at the time of his succession to the kingship of his father, Clovis was still a boy, probably of fifteen. There were other kings of the Franks at the time. The following letter is best dated to Clovis’s succession, but some would date it following his defeat of Syagrius in 486 (below, 46, c. 27). The author of the letter, Bishop Remigius, was metropolitan of Belgica secunda. Bishop of Rheims for over seventy years (ca. 458-ca. 532), Remigius outlived Clovis by two decades; he is also the author of a letter on the occasion of the death of the king’s sister (40, below) and another letter that dates just after the king’s death (44, below). A letter that Remigius received from Sidonius Apollinaris is also extant (37.21). Source: Epistolae Austrasicae, no. 2, ed. W. Grundlach, MGH Epistolae 3: Epistolae Merowingici et Karolini Aevi, with Emendata by Bruno Krusch, pp. 719-20; reprinted (and re-edited in conformity with Krusch’s emendations) in CCSL 117, ed. Henri Rochais. Translation by A.C. Murray. Bishop Remigius to the noted lord, greatly esteemed for his merits, King Clovis. Great news has reached us that you have taken up the administration of Belgica secunda. It is no surprise that you have begun to be as your parents ever were. You, who have already reached the very top by the practise of humility, must see to it through your merit that God’s favorable judgment does not turn from you, for, as the saying goes, the deeds of a man are tested. From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) . University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division. Kindle Edition. "In the third quarter of the fifth century the most important of the Frankish chiefs of the Merovingian line was a prince of the Salians, named Childerich, who dwelt at Tournay, and ruled in the valley of the upper Scheldt. He died in 481, leaving his throne to his sixteen-year-old son and heir, a prince named Chlodovech or Chlodwig, who was destined to found the great Frankish kingdom, by extinguishing the other Frankish principalities, and conquering" Oman, Charles. The Dark Ages 476-918 A.D. (p. 40). Augustine Books. Kindle Edition. What about the legality of his claim? Precisely because Clovis I ended up inheriting a title from his father in law and not his father, this worth looking into. Salic law was first issued while Clovis I was an adult. What was the legal system that Clovis I's father was living under? "The Frankish period is rich in legal sources, though these are frequently beset with major problems of interpretation. A number of law codes were in use in one way or another in the Merovingian kingdom: the Breviary of Alaric (a version of the Theo-dosian Code, cf. 32), the Burgundian Code (first issued by King Gundobad), the Salic Law, the Ribvarian Law; and beyond the Rhine, in the seventh and eighth centuries, Alamannian and Bavarian codes." From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) . University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division. Kindle Edition. Burgundian law will tell us whether his father in law may leave his Burgundian title to his son in law. Again, what were the laws for his father? Now, Clovis I title may have changed when coronated in 509 "In 509 (A.D.) he was elected king by the Ripuarians, and raised upon a shield in the city of Cologne, according to the Frankish custom, amid general acclamation. "And thus, said Gregory of Tours, " God daily prostrated his enemies before him and increased his kingdom, because he walked before him with an upright heart, and did what was pleasing in his eyes!" — so completely did his services to the Catholic Church conceal his moral deformities from the eyes of even the best of the ecclesiastical historians." Collection, .. Clovis . Editions Le Mono. Kindle Edition. Interestingly, you can look up events for each year from 481 to 509, what leaps out is that 509 is the death of Chlodoric, the old king of the Ripuarian Franks. Manoralism started during late antiquity and there's no reference to feudalism in medieval documents until after Hugh Capet, so I don't think anything epoch changing happened between Childeric's death and Clovis's coronation. "The term "feudal" or "feodal" is derived from the medieval Latin word feodum. The etymology of feodum is complex with multiple theories, some suggesting a Germanic origin (the most widely held view) and others suggesting an Arabic origin. Initially in medieval Latin European documents, a land grant in exchange for service was called a beneficium (Latin).[ 16] Later, the term feudum, or feodum, began to replace beneficium in the documents.[ 16] The first attested instance of this is from 984, although more primitive..." Wikipedia contributors. Focus On: Feudalism: Feudalism, Prince, Serfdom, Nobility, Lord, Peasant, Emirate, Charter, Manorialism, Motte-and-bailey Castle, etc. (Kindle Locations 177-184). Focus On. Kindle Edition. So basically feudalism started after the fall of the Carolingian Empire. Curiously, IIRC, the title of the French king in the 100 years war is "Prince de Paris." Currently, it is the name of a restaurant in Casablanca. Did Clovis have control of Paris? With a closer reading of the wikipedia, "Clovis I united all the Frankish petty kingdoms as well as most of Roman Gaul under his rule, conquering the Domain of Soissons of the Roman general Syagrius as well as the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse. He took his seat at Paris, which along with Soissons, Reims, Metz, and Orléans became the chief residences. Upon his death, the kingdom was split among his four sons." So, yes he did have control of Paris. Note, in the books Dark Ages and History of France when it refers to the emperor it means the eastern, Byzantine emperor. On to the origin of the Basilica of Saint-Denis: "Dagobert I who, as every French schoolboy knows, put on his trousers inside out.* But he also did a good deal more. In 630 or thereabouts he annexed Alsace, the Vosges and the Ardennes, creating a new duchy, and he made Paris his capital. Though his debaucheries were famous – hence the perfectly idiotic little song – he was deeply religious and founded the Basilica of Saint-Denis, in which he was the first French king to be buried." Norwich, John Julius. A History of France (p. 30). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition. According to the wikipedia "The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis) is a large medieval abbey church in the city of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris. The building is of singular importance historically and architecturally as its choir, completed in 1144, shows the first use of all of the elements of Gothic architecture.[citation needed] "The site originated as a Gallo-Roman cemetery in late Roman times. The archaeological remains still lie beneath the cathedral; the people buried there seem to have had a faith that was a mix of Christian and pre-Christian beliefs and practices.[1] Around 475 St. Genevieve purchased some land and built Saint-Denys de la Chapelle. In 636 on the orders of Dagobert I the relics of Saint Denis, a patron saint of France, were reinterred in the basilica. The relics of St-Denis, which had been transferred to the parish church of the town in 1795, were brought back again to the abbey in 1819." Now I remember his title on his tomb is prince of the Bergundians, a title he took from his father in law. Brittannica comments "His baptism is considered one of the formative dates in French history. For Catholics, he was the first major Germanic Catholic king, and Pope John Paul II celebrated a mass in Reims in 1996 in honour of the 15th centenary of his baptism." Now his marriage: "Clovis Marries Chlothild (II 28) Another king at the time was Gundioc, king of the Burgundians [a. 455–73/74?], from the lineage of that [Gothic] persecutor [of Christians] Athanaric [† 381]. He had four sons: Gundobad, Godigisel, Chilperic, and Godomar. Gundobad put his brother Chilperic to the sword, tied a stone around the neck of Chilperic’s wife, and drowned her. He sentenced her two daughters to exile. The elder of the daughters was called Crona; she put on the habit of a religious. The name of the younger was Chlothild." Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians: 10 (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) . University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division. Kindle Edition. As to his royal title, the first French king in Paris to have control of the Duchy of Franconia is Hugh Capet. That's well after Charlemagne. Clovis's title needs to be enumerated title after birth title after father's death title after marriage title after baptism title after coronation in 509 by the Ripuarians title at tomb in Paris 1) prince of the Salian Franks 2) king of the Salian Franks 3) ???? 4) ???? 5) ???? 6) prince of the Bergundians, which I remember from a history textbook from Stingley elementary. Also, there was a climactic battle between Clovis I and the Byzantine emperor. IIRC they fought one on one and the Byzantine emperor had the victory. Clovis I was married before he was baptized, and his first child by his wife died. "Now the king of the Burgundians was Gundevech, of the family of king Athanaric the persecutor, whom we have mentioned before. He had four sons; Gundobad, Godegisel, Chilperic and Godomar. Gundobad killed his brother Chilperic with the sword, and sank his wife in water with a stone tied to her neck. His two daughters he condemned to exile; the older of these, who became a nun, was called Chrona, and the younger Clotilda. And as Clovis often sent embassies to Burgundy, the maiden Clotilda was found by his envoys. And when they saw that she was of good bearing and wise, and learned that she was of the family of the king, they reported this to King Clovis, and he sent an embassy to Gundobad without delay asking her in marriage. And Gundobad was afraid to refuse, and surrendered her to the men, and they took the girl and brought her swiftly to the king. The king was very glad when he saw her, and married her, having already by a concubine a son named Theodoric." Gregory of Tours. A History of the Franks (p. 41). Neeland Media LLC. Kindle Edition. "In the meantime, the faithful queen presented her son for baptism and had the church adorned with hangings and drapery, so that he who could not be prevailed upon by instruction might more readily be brought to believe by this mystery. The boy was baptized and called Ingomer, but he died, still wearing the white robes of his baptism. The king as a result became bitter and was not slow to reproach the queen." Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians: 10 (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) . University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division. Kindle Edition. From Britannica: "Gregory places Clovis’s baptism in 496 and characterizes his subsequent battles as Christian victories, particularly the engagement with the Visigoths in 507 that has long been identified with Vouillé but now is believed to have occurred at Voulon near Poitiers, France. Gregory portrays the Visigothic war as a campaign against Arian heresy. " Now to really confuse the issue there's a quote from Pharamund to Clovis I that says the qualifiers on the names are wrong "This is another merger of the bloodlines Clovis (466-511AD) who became King of the Salian Franks at the age of 15, was also an Roman official. FIRST FRANKISH KINGS Kings of the Salian Franks Pharamund (370-430 AD) Clodion (395-448 AD) Mérovée (411-458 AD) Childeric II (437- 481 AD) Clovis (466-511 AD) 2" of Antrustions, Order. From Pharamund to Clovis: History of a Sacred Bloodline (pp. 13-14). UNKNOWN. Kindle Edition. So, in addition to the possibility of the Dark Ages starting with the death of Childeric I, there are three related events. His final title, prince of the Bergundians, came from his father in law, the king of the Bergundians. I remember being taught that the decision on when the dark ages starts is made by historians, not the pope. However, a papal bull on the issue might still be informative. The Roman emperor tried to get rid of Clovis by stripping of his title in multiple steps. He betrayed the empire with his victory at Soissons. He also strangled his first bastard son and first legitimate son to death. Making him unholy. ex-communion - Clovis I strangling his eldest son to death imposition - the Roman emperor stripping Clovis I of his title of the king of the Salian Franks the ban of ???? - banning any progeny of Clovis I from the French monarchy - was this a joint act of the French nobility? I remember they had to reconvene the Nicene Council. I believe the text from Stingley leaned towards ex-communion as the start of the dark ages. I would say it were the imposition. This material came up because the instructor subjectively asked me, "how'd Clovis lose?" Dear God, Ben Russell thought we were talking about how we lost Vietnam. What came up was the meaning of legitimate children. Some thought that legitimate children were produced asexually, which shocked me. Thus, we quoted Bill Cosby himself, "natural child birth." Macbeth, " Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth." Shakespeare, William. Macbeth (p. 84). Global Publishers. Kindle Edition. "Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripp’d." Shakespeare, William. Macbeth (pp. 127-128). Global Publishers. Kindle Edition. A discussion of caesarian section. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu is made from clay and I'm not sure that was mentioned. "The goddess Aruru, she washed her hands, took a pinch of clay, threw it down in the wild. In the wild she created Enkidu, the hero, offspring of silence, knit strong by Ninurta." Penguin Classics. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) (p. 4). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
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    Clovis and the beginning of France

    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.
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    Historical Historians

    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.
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    Historical Historians

    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.
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    Clovis and the beginning of France

    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.
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    Philosophy

    There are two web site, brainscape and proprofs.com (a little easier than brainscape) that have bible study flashcards that can be amusing, like did you know "Corinthize" means "fornicate?" Also, Raphael is God in Faust. In the Book of Thel it is saint Michael. The thing about Raphael is that he is not "sainted" and he plays a curious role in Paradise Lost. The holy trinity, I am sure though, is Michael, Daniel, and Raphael. Faust has Raphael, "Gabriel", and Michael. For a little while there was a correction and Gabrielle was spelled correctly. I assure you, Gabrielle is a girl! I know, this is where philosophy runs into theology which runs into fiction. What the Book of Thel says is potentially more interesting than Faust. Someone make a deal with the devil to be a musician. Well.... The book of Thel is brief and it is supposed to take place in heaven. Heaven is nice. An angel who is a virgin is free to pontificate. She even conducts a scientific experiment. She finds a worm. The context of the worm is not clear. Science stuff - worms are worthless to the biosphere. They are a sign heaven is flawed. It's a sign that you can be damned even in heaven. So she clings to her virginity. This is a sign that angels have a conscience, they are concerned with children. Now I've gotten to the contract- Faust is saying the Austrian emperor made deal with the devil. Maybe that's what Adolf Hitler was after. The American version is based on Robert Johnson going to the crossroads in the 1930s. The shooting locations for the movie Crossroads look more promising than the locations described online. In particular, Vicksburg, MS. The Sophists hatred of democracy makes me wonder if mankind planned settlement of the Americas for centuries.
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    Psychology

    Related to psychology is the subject of the Rorshach exam. There is a version that you can take online that I have found Harrower-Erickson Multiple Choice Rorschach Test developed by the US military at the end of WWII it is much simpler than seeing a psychologist. Also, for psychopharmacology I found another newer antipsychotic drug, Rexulti, approved in US, AU, and EU. It, like clozapine, is not listed in the 15th ed pill book copyright 2012. The year of introduction on these two meds, also, is not available. The best antipsychotic in the Pill Book is risperidone, micro dose only. In the movie the Virgin Suicides, we see a psychologist conducting a Rorschach test with the youngest sister and she is doing well. It's a shame he didn't finish. They are a normal form of treatment. I will say that the original Rorschach test as described sounds too long. Antipsychotics boost your IQ and your reading ability. It's like the quest for a superman pill. Or should I say an "absolom" pill? K, I just got done with the Harrower-Erickson test and the result is jammed up. Now I remember why the army made their own version. The Rorshach test is flagrantly a "Do you know what a vagina looks like?" test. I won't say which of the 10 images is what. The thing is, in the Virgin Suicides, when the youngest and prettiest sister starts to do well at a Rorshach exam, the pscyhologist breaks it off. I suppose he wanted to demonstrate that she wasn't smart enough to know what her you know what is since she is attractive, and when that wasn't happening, he gave up. God I need Windows 11. I use Spywareblaster in addition to Webroot. Maybe that's why it isn't working. The Harrower-Erickson version of the Rorshach exam has a drop down that says "sex organs" so you can avoid using the "v" word. k, I got through it. I was freezing up on a questionnaire at the end on TV watching habits that I couldn't bypass. The score measures how many mentally disturbed answers you give. If you give 4 or more, you are mentally disturbed. And presumably ineligible for military service. I got a 3. Sanitarium. Leave me be. https://www.rorschach.org/ for the original inkblot test. https://youtu.be/YV4oYkIeGJc
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    Historical Historians

    20The people of vReuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 21those listed of the tribe of Reuben were w46,500. 22Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 23those listed of the tribe of Simeon were x59,300. 24Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 25those listed of the tribe of Gad were y45,650. Bibles, Crossway. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References) (pp. 494-495). Good News Publishers. Kindle Edition. from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 27those listed of the tribe of Judah were z74,600. 28Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 29those listed of the tribe of Issachar were a54,400. 30Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 31those listed of the tribe of Zebulun were b57,400. 32Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 33those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were c40,500. 34Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 35those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were d32,200. 36Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 37those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were e35,400. 38Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 39those listed of the tribe of Dan were f62,700. 40Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 41those listed of the tribe of Asher were g41,500. 42Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 43those listed of the tribe of Naphtali were h53,400. 44 iThese are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house. 45So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel— 46all those listed were j603,550. Bibles, Crossway. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References) (pp. 495-496). Good News Publishers. Kindle Edition. 38Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, sguarding the sanctuary itself, to protect [2] the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death. 39All those listed among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron listed at the commandment of the LORD, by clans, all the males from a month old and upward, were t22,000. Bibles, Crossway. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References) (p. 501). Good News Publishers. Kindle Edition. The Levites seam to constitute the religious caste of the jews. If you're wondering about piracy, I hear the trick is to drink a bottle of rum before you're 6 months. Another thing that helps is to go through communist indoctrination in preschool. I did not have the full dosage of either. I'm sorry, the benefit to your behavior of what communists teach is immeasurable.
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    Historical Historians

    Here's one of the most important historical points in the universe. The emperor at Jesus birth was Octavian. This is a scan from the contemporary english bible.
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