Notes from the Brooklyn Polygnostic Institute
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Fun Fact
Armadillo meat was a fairly common meat in American Southern cooking in the 1930's and the animal was nicknamed the Hoover Hog, and some people still enjoy the taste of freshly killed or not so freshly road killed armadillo. Unfortunately one in six Armadillos living in the coastal marshes of Louisiana and Texas have been found to have leprosy, and there are several cases of leprosy found among people who have trapped, cured, eaten or wrestled armadillos. Louisiana is the state with the highest number of leprosy cases among people who were born in the United States.
May be verified in Fierce Food by Christa Weil
Armadilloes have gestation periods varying from 60-120 days and are the animal that is most succeptible to leprosy.
May be verified in Fierce Food by Christa Weil
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Fun Fact
A man in California left his lawn sprinkler on when he went on vacation. The excess water in the soil lead to a landslide that set his house down a mountain and the debris managed to block a major highway. The Professor knows the man's name, but I refuse to reveal it due to concerns for his privacy.
May be verified in Lanslides, Slumps & Creep by Peter Goodwin.
A man in California left his lawn sprinkler on when he went on vacation. The excess water in the soil lead to a landslide that set his house down a mountain and the debris managed to block a major highway. The Professor knows the man's name, but I refuse to reveal it due to concerns for his privacy.
May be verified in Lanslides, Slumps & Creep by Peter Goodwin.
Arcanum
78% of OCD sufferers feel vindicated when they hear about the lawn sprinkler caused landslide.
12% are too filled with the need to rush home and check their lawn sprinklers to feel vindicated.
Of the 12% who need to check their lawn sprinklers, 20% don't have lawn sprinklers. 8% don't even have lawns.
78% of OCD sufferers feel vindicated when they hear about the lawn sprinkler caused landslide.
12% are too filled with the need to rush home and check their lawn sprinklers to feel vindicated.
Of the 12% who need to check their lawn sprinklers, 20% don't have lawn sprinklers. 8% don't even have lawns.
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Comment from the Professor
Say what you will about Hypatia. That she was a brilliant mathematician, leading polymath of her era, such a skilled musician that she mastered the saxophone that was left by a Brooklyn Polygnostic Institute intern on a sight seeing trip of fifth century Alexandria and managed to create the bulk of Charlie Parker's work millenia before he was born, she was a lousy lay.
Say what you will about Hypatia. That she was a brilliant mathematician, leading polymath of her era, such a skilled musician that she mastered the saxophone that was left by a Brooklyn Polygnostic Institute intern on a sight seeing trip of fifth century Alexandria and managed to create the bulk of Charlie Parker's work millenia before he was born, she was a lousy lay.
Arcanum
Egyptian culture is 2,905, 687 years old. Australopithicine mummy wrappings were leaves smeared with mud. Their pyramids were four foot high cones made of dirt. Only Australopithicine nobility were mummified and buried. Each burial cost three months worth of Australopthicine GDP.
Egyptian culture is 2,905, 687 years old. Australopithicine mummy wrappings were leaves smeared with mud. Their pyramids were four foot high cones made of dirt. Only Australopithicine nobility were mummified and buried. Each burial cost three months worth of Australopthicine GDP.
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Arcanum
This is of course nonsense. Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, or as he prefers to be called, "The Amazing Randi" while a talented stage illusionist has no knowledge of any of the subtle sciences and would fare no better on the astral plane than the average Norwegian dockworker. In fact, one of the Institute's students sent him a Philosopher's Stone as a gift and he used it as a paperweight from March 5, 1978 until the Institute discovered the prank and sent a fetch to substitute it with a replica made of mundane material on April 4, 1981. Mr. Zwinge never noticed the difference and continues to use the paperweight.
Randall Zwinge is actually the dupe of the secretive society of mystics barely known as the Trismegistriad. They have chosen him as their instrument to shut down those who choose to practice the hidden arts in the open, and one or more of their opratives are on hand, although often invisible or astrally projecting, whenever he debunks a real occult practioner. They have also protected him from 278 paranormal assassination attempts, including three attacks from his reflection while shaving.
This is of course nonsense. Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, or as he prefers to be called, "The Amazing Randi" while a talented stage illusionist has no knowledge of any of the subtle sciences and would fare no better on the astral plane than the average Norwegian dockworker. In fact, one of the Institute's students sent him a Philosopher's Stone as a gift and he used it as a paperweight from March 5, 1978 until the Institute discovered the prank and sent a fetch to substitute it with a replica made of mundane material on April 4, 1981. Mr. Zwinge never noticed the difference and continues to use the paperweight.
Randall Zwinge is actually the dupe of the secretive society of mystics barely known as the Trismegistriad. They have chosen him as their instrument to shut down those who choose to practice the hidden arts in the open, and one or more of their opratives are on hand, although often invisible or astrally projecting, whenever he debunks a real occult practioner. They have also protected him from 278 paranormal assassination attempts, including three attacks from his reflection while shaving.