Although educated in Chemistry, my true interests are history and literature (hey, something has to pay the bills until I hit the big one!), especially the prototypes - the first of their kind - like the Hunley. Looking at some other mysteroius twists in history.Literature is in my background. Ivan Goncharov (Oblomov, et. al.) is a distant relative. Other interesting lines include Aleksandr Baranov (last Russian governor of Alaska), the Jegello Dynasty of Lithuania and Poland, and Genghis Khan (now there's a combination of backgrounds, eh?).Born of Latvian parents, I grew up in central New more...
