Jerome T. Shaw:
Itinerant, renegade scholar. Well connected and well traveled. Has taken tea and vodka with many strange mutants and weird gods.
Education:
From the first through the seventh grades I attended the prestigious St. Bernard's School in New York City, which gave me a good, solid primary education and additionally, perhaps, scarred me for life. Thereafter, I went to boarding school for two years in an all boy's Catholic school run by Benedictine monks in the woods of Rhode Island. Successfully fleeing from boarding school, I escaped to high school in New York City at Friend's Seminary, a 200 year old Quaker school. From 1983-1988 I pursued a bachelor's degree in Classics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Later I moved to Seattle where I was foolish enough to embark upon a graduate career in Classics at the University of Washington between 1991 and 1998. I also spent much of my time pursuing arcane lore and Turkish and Persian studies at the Near East Department.
Hobbies and Interests include:
Travel, geography, languages and language acquisition, Cuisine and the pursuit of fine comestibles, cinema, music, night life, museums, fine art, historical linguistics, archaeology, Egyptology, Hittitology, near-eastern studies, Greek history and historiography, Hellenistic history and historiography, Hellenistic topography of Turkey, Hellenistic sculpture and statuary, Etruscology, archaic Rome, Ptolemaic studies, Roman Military history, Roman conquest of the east, Roman epic poetry, Roman elegy, Mongol History, Central Asian History, Persian Studies, Seljuk Civilization, Mediaeval Iceland, Saga Literature and Viking Stuff in general, Old English literature, Incas and Aztecs, astronomy, space exploration, science fiction, classic horror fiction, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe, FRPG's, comic book collecting, Silver Age Comics, Jack Kirby, Captain America, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, The Avengers, Jim Starlin, Tim Truman, bars & cafes, bicycling, inline skating, martial arts, hiking, swimming, snorkeling, hacky sack, computer games, strategy games, World War I history, 19th Century museological propoganda efforts, Iranic studies, hippie culture, Chinese Kung Fu movies, Japanese Film, Alfred Hitchcock Films, Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama.
Jerome T. Shaw, Asgard Enterprises.
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