Wow! I attended Defense Information School at Fort Meade in Maryland!

I'm most definitely working thundermug into my vocabulary over the holidays.

Ouch Charlie!

True, circumstance would dictate another British general, or a couple of them, would step up and take his place in history.

If Goran is capable of handling horses and swords, WHY HAVEN'T THEY PUT IT TO USE??????

Oh yes. The practice didn't really die out among the Maori until the mid-1800s.

True!

You might as well shoot the kid if you're planning to leave him in 1781 New Zealand. He'd likely have ended up boiling in a pot or roasting on a spit by sundown. The Maori back in those days were still practicing cannibals.

Kind of funny it's a bureaucrat who thinks of it!

Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Who are these strange pirates and where is this Silicon Valley you speak of?

Considering they were Irish gangs (mostly first or second generation), I'd guess the real accent was a sing-song, Gaelic slang-heavy version of English that would be virtually unintelligible to us today.

Yes, they probably would, dagnabit!

Yeah, I doubt his ancestors have access to network tv.

Yes, I was surprised she had no idea who he was. She seems to know a lot of historical minutiae, but has no knowledge about the first Mint director?

He was apparently more of a craftsman and academic.

Probably the best episode of the season! They tied up a lot of loose ends and brought the story arcs for the first half of the season into a coherent whole. There are still a few things left unexplained, like the reasons behind Anthony’s complicity in Flynn’s plan and exactly how deep the Rittenhouse Group is into…

The Tangier Island dialect actually goes back to the earliest settlers in the 1600s. In fact, Shakespeare scholars have studied them to get insight into what his works would have sounded like when he was alive. Using the Tangier dialect, they found a lot more rhyming wordplay than you'll find reading in modern…

I agree, they didn't need to turn Rittenhouse into an 18th Century Dr. Evil to carry the story. However, killing him and then letting the kid go pretty much guarantees that's what's gong to happen.

He needed it a few times in Star Trek too. He plays a most excellent villain.

Yet another good episode. We return, as we did last week, to the format of showing us what timeline prime is supposed to look like, with Bonnie and Clyde meeting their fates on a Louisiana backroad.