Recent content by Kevin in Indy

I think a number of NFL players could excel at rugby - just not with the training they have. They need to focus less on strength / speed and more on stamina, Deion would probably do just fine with ten years of rugby-oriented conditioning rather than gridiron-oriented. Massive linemen need to be...

There will be a difference between high-level American Gridiron players and Rugby players. To my perception (from having watched two of my boys train for multiple sports), Gridiron focuses more on strength while Rugby focuses more on endurance. Some of the current NFL players would do well at...

Here's what I was looking for. I did this some time ago. This seems like a reasonable thing to put in this thread.\ Moonlight on the Wabash – and the Maumee What Really Happened: The original capital of the state of Indiana was at Corydon, a few miles north of the Ohio River in about the...

I once wrote an exercise titled "What if there was no Indianapolis?" I'll see if I can find it.

I grew up in Rockford, which is nicknamed the "Forest City," so I was looking for a dark green as primary. I used the red and black because the original Rockford High School and three of its successors used those colors. (In fact, the high school I attended simply calls its teams the Red and...

I was playing around with a template for rugby kit and came up with this for Rockford Ravens:

I was referring to the conquest of the NW territory during the ARW.

Was the George Rodgers Clark expedition a Virginian enterprise?

Nothing on which I can hang my hat, but I had read in several sources that he was declining in health during his Presidency. Not that unusual for a fifty-something man in the mid-19th Century. I had figured that staying in Washington and dealing with Reconstruction would wear him the rest of...

Consider - what if Booth had to overcome the (in-place) guard with his knife, but made enough noise that Grant got up to investigate, with Lincoln getting up thereafter. Booth opens the door and has to use his gun to shoot Grant. Lincoln has the presence of mind to grab his chair and proceeds to...

The challenge would be to train a large unit of canines to fight in a melee. Humans and dogs have cooperated in hunting for millennia, but a large-scale battle is another matter. I think that a mass of dogs loosed upon a formation of humans would end up looking like a slightly smaller, somewhat...

The delay in the East-West trade pipeline would have set civilization back enormously. Can you imagine rounding Africa to reach India? or traveling overland to reach China?

My college Drama Club went the opposite way - they announced the winner of the Drama Club President election at lunch hour in the Student Union building by having the outgoing President play the part of Julius Caesar and the other members the conspirators, with the conspirators free to use any...

R&D was undeniably very good under Bell Labs, but the focus was only somewhat on customer features and more on Universal Service (which was one of the key missions of AT&T in the first part of the 20th Century) and reliability. My guess is that as cutting-edge technology such as fiber optics and...

My initial take is that an extended government monopoly on communications would stifle innovation and delay features. From my observation, the Carterphone and MCI cases and the 1984 AT&T divestiture (in which I participated - I worked in the Bell System at the time) triggered an incredible...