Britannica.com’s dry entries on buccaneers and Barbary pirates.
Month: November 2000
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I’m preparing a character for
I’m preparing a character for a 7th Sea game set in more or less real Europe, 1669 (France specifically). Here’s a list of references(mostly 17th Century thinkers), from Britannica.com:
Benedict De Spinoza, Rene Descartes,
Robert Boyle,
Thomas Hobbes, Blaise Pascal, Christina queen of Sweden, Christiaan Huygens, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz and the unavoidable Sir Issac Newton.
Oh, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert should be worth looking at.
2,000 votes out of about 100 Million will determine who will be the US president. What a silly system the Americans have. Couldn’t they just flip for it?