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by jackflaps
Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:55 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
Replies: 127
Views: 59082

QuizBowlRonin wrote:Someone please tell Jonathan that he doesn't have to wear ties to a tournament anymore.
Let's not go around making crazy proclamations like this when his only true crime was wearing such a profoundly ugly tie.
by jackflaps
Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player movement thread
Replies: 12
Views: 7209

Okay, I'll bite.

I'm effectively retired apart from the odd open tournament, North Carolina having declared me to be a librarian. I hope they don't have too much trouble replacing the geography and other quiz bowl marginalia in which I specialize.
by jackflaps
Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 pm
Forum: Best of the Best
Topic: Underwhelmed
Replies: 141
Views: 153959

Not to get into it, but is Mexico really considered "non-western"? The ACF Fall distribution thinks so: "Literature 5/5: 3/3 should be American or British Literature, while 2/2 should be European or World Literature. "History 5/5: 2/2 american, 2/2 european, 1/1 nonwestern."
by jackflaps
Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Writing questions out of Wikipedia
Replies: 12
Views: 8907

McGraw-Hill has their science and technology encyclopedia online at http://www.accessscience.com, and I imagine pretty much every college library subscribes to it. Most every other science database I know of is academic, and therefore I don't go anywhere near them. As for Wikipedia, I've written que...