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Bill Jerse Euclid, Ohio...
Until last year the youngest brigadier in the Continental Army was a forger of ship anchors in Coventry, Rhode Island. He has little formal education but used to study Euclid and military history beside his forge at night. Though raised a Quaker, Greene helped form a militia troop to resist British tyranny. When other members of his troop thought he should be disqualified from command because of a game leg, Greene characteristically offered to serve as a private. But his talent as a leader, especially in acquiring and organizing supplies, was quickly noticed. He progressed from private to general within...
...Emperor's appetite for eminence, the authors write: "History was for him, as for Carlyle, a worship and rosary of heroes, especially those who guided na tions or molded empires. He loved Plutarch even more than Euclid; he breathed the passions of those ancient patriots, he drank the blood of those his toric battles...
...Antine Euclid, Ohio...
...thing winds up being slightly less funny than an Ec 10 lecture. Some skits are more successful, but don't seem particularly original--the one about the guru who celebrates "the banal and the obvious" sounds a lot like the National Lampoon's Craig Baker series, for example, and "Euclid's Elemental" is second-rate Tom Lehrer...