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stoutfellowThat was odd.
Ordinologist that I am, I've been assembling information from the Civ IV games that I've played into a database that I can (try to) analyze. In the course of this, I've been trying to identify all of the Great People who appear in the game. Within each of the five types, the list of names always appears in the same order, which seems to be chronological; this has helped somewhat. (There are exceptions; for example, in the Great Scientist list, Isaac Newton appears before Galileo Galilei and Rene Descartes.) While looking at the list of Great Prophets, I noticed that one was named "Narak". That niggled at me, until finally it hit me: did they mean Nanak, the founder of Sikhism? Or was I misremembering the name? A quick check in the Britannica confirmed that "Nanak" was indeed the name I was thinking of, and there was no listing under "Narak". The latter didn't mean much, as there are quite a few names on the lists that don't appear in Britannica, but which can be identified via Google. Still, this "Narak" seemed to be in about the right time-frame...
Hmm. Maybe there's an alternative pronunciation or spelling? Let's Google it...
Hm. Er. No, I think that "Narak" is definitely wrong.
(It occurs to me that this might be one of those deliberate errors that data-collectors - cartographers, encyclopedists, etc. - insert so as to trap plagiarists. Still...)
Ordinologist that I am, I've been assembling information from the Civ IV games that I've played into a database that I can (try to) analyze. In the course of this, I've been trying to identify all of the Great People who appear in the game. Within each of the five types, the list of names always appears in the same order, which seems to be chronological; this has helped somewhat. (There are exceptions; for example, in the Great Scientist list, Isaac Newton appears before Galileo Galilei and Rene Descartes.) While looking at the list of Great Prophets, I noticed that one was named "Narak". That niggled at me, until finally it hit me: did they mean Nanak, the founder of Sikhism? Or was I misremembering the name? A quick check in the Britannica confirmed that "Nanak" was indeed the name I was thinking of, and there was no listing under "Narak". The latter didn't mean much, as there are quite a few names on the lists that don't appear in Britannica, but which can be identified via Google. Still, this "Narak" seemed to be in about the right time-frame...
Hmm. Maybe there's an alternative pronunciation or spelling? Let's Google it...
Hm. Er. No, I think that "Narak" is definitely wrong.
(It occurs to me that this might be one of those deliberate errors that data-collectors - cartographers, encyclopedists, etc. - insert so as to trap plagiarists. Still...)
narak
Date: 2007-04-08 10:32 pm (UTC)