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[sapote]

1) Hey, so: does anyone have recommendations for chatty, informative books about:
a) Jerusalem politics in the year 0
b) the Protestant reformation and major dramatis personae thereof
c) medieval cult of the saints and wacky behavior associated with religious orders?
ETA: or, actually, anything about any episodes of wacky religious factionalism in judeo-christian history at all. I should take this to a reference librarian so that they can roll their eyes and refer me to the entirety of Western history.


2) Does anyone know exactly where Rodney McKay lived as a child? Does anyone have a good guess? I haven't been to Canada since I was six months old, so my geography is, sadly, rusty.

Also, I may be more familiar with the geography of Nunavut than anything closer to the U.S. border.

Anyway, if anyone can point me towards any episodes at all, besides McKay and Mrs. Miller, where Rodney discusses his early life, I would be very grateful.

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[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was kind of hoping you'd weigh in on the geographical question. Thanks! And I will check out those books. I actually have the Walker one somewhere, I'm sure. It sounds like one of those things that winds up on my bookshelves.

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

Another reason why it is probably Toronto is that Canadians in general tend to think of one city as their 'home', or where they grew up. The fact that his sister doesn't question why he is in Toronto (only why he is at her house) makes me think that Toronto is their 'home' city, where both of them have lived for a long time.

He does have the attitude of a Toronto or Ontario dweller. Other areas of Canada have distinct little attitudes, especially in the west.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

This makes a great deal of sense. Thank you!

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

She's pretty... intense in her feminism. But it's so well researched, I mean, she actually got into the Vatican library (which I can't figure out, it might have involved identity theft. If I was the pope, I'd be all 'hell no, get that woman away'). It's that book where I learned that the name Adam comes from Adamah, which is this red clay stuff. He's literally earth!

And there was always this urban legend that certain parts of lake Ontario were so polluted that they could be set on fire and I always had this mental image of Rodney going out and actually testing it. You know, for science and truth. It would be hilarious.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

baby!Rodney would probably have been very into studying science and truth through, you know, blowing things up. Which would have been a good preparation for later life.