The Thread

[rtrapasso]

Must pick up the pace!!!

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But first... some history!!! [:'(]

[rtrapasso]

Year 1245:

Pope Innocent IV announces that he will convene a great ecclesiastical council at Lyons in June, the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich II hears that he is to be called before the papal council and tries to make peace. The pope makes demands that Friedrich finds unacceptable, the pope renews the emperor's excommunication in April, Friedrich convenes a rival council at Verona in June, but the pope's council deposes Friedrich II July 27, finding him guilty of sacrilege and possible heresy. War breaks out in the German states as the pope orders the Germans to elect a new king (see 1246).

Portugal's Sancho II is deposed by Pope Innocent IV, who offers the crown to Sancho's brother Afonso, count of Boulogne. Sancho tries to regain the crown but the new king will reign until 1279 as Afonso III, despite condemnation by the pope, who will accuse him of all manner of crimes.

The Seventh Crusade mobilizes forces under the leadership of France's Louis IX, who takes the cross against his mother's advice. Louis is by no means sympathetic to Pope Innocent IV's use of the crusade as propaganda against the deposed Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich II, but the pope supports the Crusade and authorizes a levy on clerical incomes to finance it. Filled with the notion that the crusade is God's work, Louis will embark in 1248 on an expedition to regain Jerusalem from the Egyptians.

King Henry III [b. 1207, d. 1272] starts building Westminster Abbey in London, officially the Abbey of St. Peter, as an extension and replacement for an earlier structure that may go back as far as 785. The earlier structure was previously rebuilt by Edward the Confessor in the eleventh century. See also 1065 Construction.

Giovanni de Carpini, commissioned by Pope Innocent IV, explores South Russia and reaches the Mongol Empire at Karakorum. See also 1253 Earth science.

Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections by Ch'in Chiu-Shao [b. c. 1202, d. 1261] treats equations of a higher degree than the third.

[rtrapasso]

OK - back to work!!!

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System malfunction... must reboot!!! [:@]

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Stupid bar code scanner!!! [:@]

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Gee... 3 cases down... still going very slowly... [8|] [:(]

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i can't IMAGINE why!! [:'(] [:'(]

[rtrapasso]

Hmmm... still no answers/guess on my quiz...

[rtrapasso]

You guys need to try harder!!! [:D]

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

TODAY'S NIK SIGHTING:
Nik visits an A6M2 Fanboy club:

"You Axis fanboys! Statistics PROVE that your A6M was nothing special....oh and by the way! STATISTICS show that our torpedoes were better than yours too. HA! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that you we beat you guys in every catagory. I can't stand it......how can one handle being so proficient!......gimmie a quad latte now......no foam!"

[rtrapasso]

Er... ok...

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus


"You Axis fanboys! Statistics PROVE that your A6M was nothing special....oh and by the way! STATISTICS show that our torpedoes were better than yours too. HA! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that you we beat you guys in every catagory. I can't stand it......how can one handle being so proficient!......gimmie a quad latte now......no foam!"

you forgot mines-are-all-you-need statistics.

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

"oh....and another thing! STATISTICS prove that our mines beat your mines and were really really cool! HECK....we could have beat you with mines alone. Its a FACT! Just go to www.ihaveallthefacts.com go on.....CLICK it! I dare you! Where's your research??!!! Here's mine....its all at www.icangoogle.com. I'm right.....your wrong! The Sherman rocked too.....it could kill any garden variety opponent. STATISTICS prove it! nnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..........where's my quad latte!!!??"

[alaviner]

Morning offerings [&o]

[rtrapasso]

"oh....and another thing! STATISTICS prove that our mines beat your mines and were really really cool! HECK....we could have beat you with mines alone. Its a FACT! Just go to www.ihaveallthefacts.com go on.....CLICK it! I dare you! Where's your research??!!! Here's mine....its all at www.icangoogle.com. I'm right.....your wrong! The Sherman rocked too.....it could kill any garden variety opponent. STATISTICS prove it! nnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..........where's my quad latte!!!??"

Heeeeyyy... that second website actually exists!!

Sorry - i drank your quad latte (hey, i was thirsty!!!)

[alaviner]

Nice bit of trivia Robert but I have no clue for an answer

[rtrapasso]

i'm sure Nik can derive the answer through statistical methods!! [:'(]

[alaviner]

[:'(] Second cup of Java and a pack of nabs - Breakfast of champions.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: NCSUforest

[:'(] Second cup of Java and a pack of nabs - Breakfast of champions.

nabs??? [&:]