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ed. note: These fragments of a omen text was recently discovered among a number of un-translated fragments from recent work at Chicagotepe. This text is preliminary; it is hoped that cataloging will uncover further fragments. Tablet 1 [approx 12 lines missing] If the eclipse on 15 Iyyar is clouded ...

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Could someone post the somewhat discussed tapestries question?

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Caillebotte was certainly a fairly prominent(if perhaps secondary) painter of the time; he was at any rate recognized at the time as important IIRC and most books that discuss impressionism I've seen cover him in varying levels of detail(probably they'd talk about The Bridge of Europe and Paris Stre...

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Could we have a breakdown of the Other Arts?

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If Maryland really is so interested in running a tournament in May, why not arrange to,say, make the main site in the Midwest in exchange for a higher cut than usual of the mirror fees? I could actually see a fairly decent market in the midwest for a May tournament.

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Jarrett was that person, but he was not the TD or at least he said he wasn't.

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The volume "Myths from Mesopotamia" is a useful compilation of several of the best-known Mesopotamian stories with some good annotations and they're a fairly quick and enjoyable read.

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Making small talk or bringing some involved but not too taxing reading material usually works well for me.

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I would likewise like to inquire if there is still room and offer myself as a free agent.

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This tournament will be open to all-star teams representing all states, the District of Columbia, all US territories, and all Canadian provinces and equivalents (as well as state or province-equivalent divisions of any other countries). Each state or equivalent may enter up to one team, with up to ...

at your pleasure · Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012 Ooh, this looks fun. Sign me up.

Ooh, this looks fun. Sign me up.

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I rather desire to play this and should actually be able to make it this year. I can pull some history, visual arts, and the odd religion tossup, as well as books I have read recently enough.

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What exactly is the split between Geo/CE and SS in history? It feels like that'd mostly just replace lots of history with Geo/CE since so little SS is reasonably askable in high school.

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Registration will close tomorrow (Monday) evening. We currently have 6 teams in Division I and 8 teams in Division II; if field sizes do not change, we will do a double round robin in Division II, and a full round robin followed by a rebracket to two pools of four in Division II. Er, do you mean &q...

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I was pretty happy to see non-western stuff come up, particularly since non-western art should be coming up more anyways. If I were to tinker with that part of the distribution, I might add some more non-western painting but that might be pushing it in terms of askabilty. The Alhambra tossup could h...

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I'd been looking forward to playing this for a while and it lived up to expectations. Thanks to Mike for writing this and Minnesota for hosting this.

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The problem you could run into is tournaments not using the finals packets per their labels or not being able or willing to burn them for finals, in which case you have a two-round difficulty spike.

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Todd said to post that he won't be able to make the league since he's out of power.

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What was the second clue from the Blue tossup? If it's something on "Mary wears a robe of this color in a Holbein" painting, then that's actually a fairly important iconographical thing that an art historian would study. Also, I'm a bit confused-is the issue people had with the Blue tossup...

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Not to mention the DC area TV shows, both of which have the players announce their year.
EDIT: Quizmaster Challenge and It's Academic do this, no idea what Battle of the Brains does.

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Jeff and I have talked about this while birding from Jekyll Island, Georgia to the Mesabi Iron Range over the last week (we saw Whooping Cranes, Jeff's current avatar in Wisconsin yesterday), but it would be great to see somewhat greater participation in GM next year from some of the better high sc...

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Not really for Ontario, but apparently Reach for the Top considers answering stuff directly related to the Affair of the Spanish Marriages to be perfectly fine for Canadian High School Nationals. Not to mention that the question was a massive hose. What was the answer line? Either way, I will add t...

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Finding myself staffing HSNCT, I would like to offer free-agency.

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Out of curiosity, when Briticising do you do stuff other than swapping out the specifically american bits of the distro for british bits?

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. As for the four-quarter format, it's not everybody's favorite and we acknowledge that, but we're sticking with it. May I ask why? As for the problem of sightseeing time, as I'm sure others have said, it should not be hard to guarantee more games while still providing lots of sightseeing time by m...

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I noticed a new tab today - Score Tracker - and created an account. What features will it have? I know people had mentioned tracking buzz location and similar things... Whoops, didn't mean to upload that yet. It's not working, but I'm working on it. I plan to add a system of logging in, tracking wh...

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I'd like this too.

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I distinctly recall the Isenheim Altarpiece question in D2 claiming it shows a dead soldier in the Resurrection scene, which is incorrect. Could that question be posted?

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When I return to Michigan in May for summer break, I plan on working with at least Kent City to prepare for HSNCT--I hope other regional teams like Chippewa Hills or White Cloud might come on board too. If you want us to come aboard, you'll have to contact my coach because my dad won't drive us to ...

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An arts tossup on Urbino seems like a bit of a stretch to me. Were other people buzzing here before the description of Venus of Urbino? Perhaps it's just my lack of being able to tell anything in the Italian renaissance apart. I vaugely remember getting it off the portrait of Frederico Da Monfeltro...

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I for one don't mind repeated architect questions.

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I'd be happy to join any team and will write non-science stuff.

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The archaeology question was negged with anthropology in the round I was watching. (What's the difference between archaeology and physical anthropology? I guess the latter is more focused on human remains, and not civilization?) Archeology is considered a subfield of anthropology, so that seems pro...

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I also wrote the archaeology tossups on "archaeology" and "age (or date or whatever)" using clues from an introductory archaeology course, in an attempt to break away from "Mayan/Mesopotamian site" bowl. Did those questions play reasonably well, or were they terrible? ...

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EDIT: No, I'm wrong. For house teams, you do not owe the editors anything and the teams are not required to write packets. However, you have an option of writing a packet for the house team to save money: If your house team (or any combination of your house team and the people staffing the tourname...

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Assuming it is functional and doesn't interfere with the building's wi-fi I have no idea why it wouldn't be allowed.

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Herculaneum Are the excavations at Herculaneum substantially more important than those at Pompeii? Those seem quite easy to confuse with one another and I'm wondering if there's a particularly good reason to ask for one of them rather than the other. Hurculaneum is interesting in its own right, but...

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I was mostly happy with the questions, aside from all the repeats. Also, could someone post the Cologne Cathedral question?

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This would be fantastic.

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"how might a fisherman describe this fish". Presumably he might describe it as being about three times its actual size. Only if it broke off. Otherwise either add a quarter of the actual length or go with whatever the most flattering photo supports. Also, my experience is that most fisher...

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Some of the fish description clues were a little wonky (In paticular the extended jaw clue in the cuttthroat trout question also fits the smallmouth bass),but that's just a minor nitpick.

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Cheynem wrote:I hope people enjoyed these.

Your hope is correct in this case.

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So this set got kind of weird at times, but there were a fair number of interesting questions and overall it was great fun.

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Algeria wrote:The bonuses which included Rauschenberg, Vigee Le Brun, and Duccio probably need to be toned down.

What was the bonus part on Duccio? I'm curious.

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Also, depending on the extent of the deafness, it's conceivable that one could hear well enough by using a hearing aid. Although knowing how some readers read... This is true to an exent (especially since quizbowl matches usually have very little background noise) but I think any student whose hear...

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I would likewise like a copy of the set.

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Setting at 1/1 the amount of social science and world literature is a bad idea, since they are topics that good teams are disproportionately good at not because they have a breadth of askable topics and inherent importance in the lives of high schoolers that obviously justifies them being asked abo...

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For what it's worth, my high school anthropology class spent very little time on "books by anthropologists" and rather more time on anthropological methodology. in that vein, questions on the subfields of biological anthropology and archeology are cool things.

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According to Todd, this is one of the dates Whitman was looking at for its tournament but there shouldn't be any problem with looking at the 11th instead.

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