if George was a "White-Hispanic" was MJ a "white-African?"

Guessing it wasn't "Leaving Neverland" It's funny how pre-Metoo everyone wanted to accept him at his word. When he died it was worldwide mourning .

So what were the actual topics you declined to crowd-source?

Guess I know what CAZ regs have been doing.

fear of cheating or hijacking?

both are highly unlikely but I just in general don't trust many people I meet in the casino when there's large amounts of money at stake

67o - dude was trying to flirt with you, just ignore, I used to play a lot of softball when I lived in Seattle and those parks are known for trolling and would get all kinds of old men come up and ask me the strangest things because the weirder the statement or question the easier it is to make it obvious you're just their for the ass

Feely - 100% agree would never play above 2/5 outside a casino, the things I've seen at underground games is scary

My three fields are Early-Modern Mediterranean History, History of Aviation and Airpower, and Early American History (prehistory-1820ish).

My Aviation and Airpower exam was 8 hours, no notes or sources, three essays. The essays were to argue for or against revolutionary change in aircraft design, to discuss the roles of myth and identity in how aviation heroes are presented and remembered, and to argue for which of WWI, WWII, or the Cold War was the most "dramatic" in terms of airpower. I wrote 13 pages in that eight hours.

My Mediterranean history exam was 24 hours, open book, write two papers. One was on the role of corsairing, how it differed from piracy and from regular naval conflict in the Early Modern era, and the effects it had on the development of the Mediterranean basin. The second was on early American views of the Middle East and North Africa and how these views were used domestically within the United States. I wrote 16 pages with 49 footnotes and got very little sleep during that 24 hours.

My early American history exam was 8 hours, open book, write two papers, but no footnotes required. The first was to design a course on the topic, how it would be organized, what readings would go in to each lesson and why, etc. The second was to write a historiography of violence in early America, evaluate the trends in the field and argue where the field should go in future scholarship. I wrote 17 pages and didn't even have time to proofread before time was up, so submitted with some typos.

Yeah, it's been a long week.

Blow Job Park? By the arboretum? I LOVE that place!!!

I knew nothing about the Barbary Wars until I listened to this 26 minute podcast, which I found very interesting... and I think you'll like as well.

That guy hasn't dropped a new one in over 9 months, which makes me really sad... but everything in his archives is fascinating.

I'm a registered nurse at an Atlanta-area hospital.

I posted a longer update in the corona thread, but it's going good. Busy, but good.

I'm just thankful today I have a recession-proof job in a great field, where I can work almost as much as I want, for as long as I want it.

So, serious question, not meant to diminish what has been clearly a long and difficult week. Knowing a little about your career, what you've done, what interests you, etc., I feel like you could have done about half of what was asked almost off the top of your head, so the effort here was in the rigor...footnotes, backing data, etc. Yes? (My exams were oral, took like half a day, so a little/lot different.)



Like, if we were hanging out, and I said to you "Garick!!! Tell me about P-51s vs A-10s and how the A-10 is just a point on an aviation continuum," you'd geek out on me for an hour. And LOVE. EVERY. MINUTE. Amirite?

not sure anyone would care but you can get GTA5 for free right now on your pc.

just need to create an account and download their installer then you can download the full game

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-U...ft-auto-v/home

Yeah, pretty much. Less so for the Mediterranean stuff, but generally the stress was the time crunch. If given a week for each of these exams, it would have been cake. The big thing in these is mastery of the historiography, so I need to remember and be able to critique the arguments of even the books that I thought were FOS, and memorizing each author, title, and main theses has been a big job, but generally this is stuff I find very engaging, or I wouldn't have gone into the field.

Also, if you asked me that, I'd argue that the A-10 is basically the WWI Junkers J1 reborn.

Another proud graduate of the GG Skook of Pokr.

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Going out for my first round of golf this year this afternoon. First time I'll be hanging out with anyone other than my immediate family since this all started.

Gfore!G

Well that settles it then.

Not sure if anyone would care about getting one of the greatest games of all time for free, wtf?!?!

Definitely in my top 3 games of all time. Probably #1. I've played all the games in the series. This brings me full circle because I downloaded the original GTA for free (albeit, from an AOL private chatroom).

For the record, some of my other favorite games:

Counter-Strike
Halo
NHL '94
Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Soulcalibur

I'm still learning the hard way

Do you play SFV? I'm trying to find people to play with.

I saw they were releasing the og Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1&2 games. I told my wife I was likely going send it on a ps4 or Xbox One in the next week or two bc of that. There are a ton of other games I'd like to play on either system but TH is super nostalgic for me.

Blows my mind that Tony Hawk is older than me. I guess I'm still young after all!

I think not til September though? Maybe I'm mistaken, thought he tweeted about it

Sorry bruh but engaged with Zoltan and did not end with "STFU Zoltan". I award you zero points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

That's a bummer...I'd wait for the new console at that point if that's the case

Rehashed convo but:

Zelda a link to the past
Goldeneye
Mario kart
Mega man X
Super Mario brothers
Halo 3 (I think it was 3 / for multiplayer )

Google confirmed September. Damn

agree with zoltard, sounds like the open book one would be by far the hardest because then the onus is on you to cite everything and you are forced into more specifics and fewer generalizations

but also congrats garick, when this is over you should treat yourself to a trip to morocco

in the city of meknes there's a massive prison fspecially built for whitey that the corsairs captured, those not important enough to have their people pay off the ransoms became slaves

view of the prison from above, the prison is underground and those holes are for air so whitey can breathe


view from inside


best part is your buy the tickets to go inside in the room where the ransoms were negotiated

It's gonna be weird once you teach a military history class about yourself.