Bill Walsh
I'm a native of Washington, D.C., I live in Wisconsin, I like classical Ottoman history. I'm trying to sell a novel. That pretty much covers it.
I'm currently cluttering the Internet with a page on the South American Indian language Quechua that I made for my friends Peter & Julia, and a page on The Fighting Illuminati!, my team in Joe's fantasy football league.
I've got some friends with odd web pages. Stop by and say hi to
- Scott (whose Dissertation on the Social, Political, and Economical Ramifications of Hazzard
County, Georgia is worth pondering and whose cat Brigid is quite cute) but whose picture is next to the dictionary definition of "fraidy cat", or
- Jim, your ringmaster and Svengali in his eerie, fantabulous Carnival of Jimness (be sure check out his military experience)
- Frank, who loves you with all his spleen (while there, why not stop in the gift shop and get a kick in the stomach)
- Joe, Lorna, Maggie & Colleen McMahon. You might as well check out their fantasy football league, too, and see to what depths the Fighting Illuminati! have sunk
- Doug, Gini, and Hannah Griffin.
- Dorota, Queen of Batrachia, under siege from Lisa Kudrow, but possessed of the honest-to-God cutest cat I have ever seen in my life, Fanbelt
- Anna-Elisa Liinamo, a fellow fan of the Ottomans and ancient Egyptians, as well as Mika Waltari. Ansku is the proud owner of Tarumetsän Bumerangi, better known to his friends as Pumi, who is officially the World's Most Beautiful Veteran Male Whippet. I kid you not
- My oldest friend, Rob Stoll, and his lovely fiancée, Elizabeth "Good Queen Bess" Abramowitz are gittin' hitched, as they say in that quaint li'l ol' hamlet (Manhattan) in which they live. Check out their wedding plans (and Rob in a funny hat) here
I can't tell you how odd it was to find myself linked to this page, but I might as well return the favor, eh?
Oh, and a word to the folks at www.africanhistory.com, should you stop by: while I appreciate the link in your timeline, you should know that your statement "1517 -- Egypt conquered by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire" isn't strictly true. You're projecting modern ethnic identities back in time and/or conflating Ottomans and Turks (common, but nevertheless erroneous). In fact, the rulers of Egypt at the time (the Turco-Circassian Mamlûks) were in many respects more 'Turkish' than the Ottomans. Thanks for the link, though, and best of luck with the site.
Happy webslinging, all,
bill
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