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 ====== AH.com Eternals : Autobiography of Subject 1531122 ("Daniel") ====== ====== AH.com Eternals : Autobiography of Subject 1531122 ("Daniel") ======
  
-=== Session 1 ===+This file has been approved by the leadership of [[The Trust]] for Eternal and Ephemeral staff members visiting the databases of TETRA.
  
-**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=1531122&postcount=28|Daniel of Alexandria (966/967 AD - Present)]]**+==== Session 1 ==== 
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 +**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-1531122|Daniel of Alexandria (966/967 AD - Present)]]**
  
 I was born in 966 or 967 AD (I can't remember exactly the AD date, have to convert calendars...)*, in Alexandria, Egypt, to Jewish parents; my father made and sold wagons and carts to the city's many lower and middle class residents (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim). My older brother took over his business, while I went about my first few decades as a kosher baker, married and had children (5; 3 lived to have children of their own). After awhile, I realized I had stopped aging in my 20s; it wasn't too bad for awhile, but by the time I was 50 or so people were looking suspicious. After my first wife died, I decided it was time to leave, before the rabbis (or worse, imams) decided that I was a witch or something. I disguised myself (though I kept the same name - how many Jews have a nice biblical name like "Daniel"?) and became a sailor on a merchant ship, heading off for Sepharad.  I was born in 966 or 967 AD (I can't remember exactly the AD date, have to convert calendars...)*, in Alexandria, Egypt, to Jewish parents; my father made and sold wagons and carts to the city's many lower and middle class residents (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim). My older brother took over his business, while I went about my first few decades as a kosher baker, married and had children (5; 3 lived to have children of their own). After awhile, I realized I had stopped aging in my 20s; it wasn't too bad for awhile, but by the time I was 50 or so people were looking suspicious. After my first wife died, I decided it was time to leave, before the rabbis (or worse, imams) decided that I was a witch or something. I disguised myself (though I kept the same name - how many Jews have a nice biblical name like "Daniel"?) and became a sailor on a merchant ship, heading off for Sepharad. 
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 For all my wanderings, the first actual war I fought in as a soldier (I've fought in naval skirmishes as a sailor, mostly against pirates and Spaniards) was the Revolutionary War (I lived in Boston then and I saw the economic downturn from the Intolerable Acts...). That, and the Civil War (Union side, I wasn't fond of slavery even back in the 10th century...), were my only land wars (I worked for the government doing propaganda during World War I, was too "old" during World War II and Korea for front-line service, and defended the mighty state of Texas flying F-102s in the Air National Guard during Vietnam, just like Dubya). I'm lucky a lot of us work for the government and help each other hide, otherwise things could get...hairy...with modern technology detecting people. For all my wanderings, the first actual war I fought in as a soldier (I've fought in naval skirmishes as a sailor, mostly against pirates and Spaniards) was the Revolutionary War (I lived in Boston then and I saw the economic downturn from the Intolerable Acts...). That, and the Civil War (Union side, I wasn't fond of slavery even back in the 10th century...), were my only land wars (I worked for the government doing propaganda during World War I, was too "old" during World War II and Korea for front-line service, and defended the mighty state of Texas flying F-102s in the Air National Guard during Vietnam, just like Dubya). I'm lucky a lot of us work for the government and help each other hide, otherwise things could get...hairy...with modern technology detecting people.
  
-=== Session 2 ===+==== Session 2 ====
  
-**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=1536090&postcount=93|Daniel and religion]]**+**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-1536090|Daniel and religion]]**
  
 Sorry, came about 940 years late. Hell, I missed Mohammed too. And I left India centuries before the Sikhs were founded... the only big religious prophet I ever met was Joseph Smith (long story... needless to say I was not impressed).  Sorry, came about 940 years late. Hell, I missed Mohammed too. And I left India centuries before the Sikhs were founded... the only big religious prophet I ever met was Joseph Smith (long story... needless to say I was not impressed). 
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 The other time I encountered the Spaniards in battle, quite a few decades later, I woke up inside a whale's intestine... but that's another story... The other time I encountered the Spaniards in battle, quite a few decades later, I woke up inside a whale's intestine... but that's another story...
  
-=== Session 3 ===+==== Session 3 ====
  
-**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=1540818&postcount=114|Daniel and other languages]]**+**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-1540818|Daniel and other languages]]**
  
 Languages I can still speak and/or read: English, Dutch (a touch archaic), German (albeit a non-modern dialect), Yiddish, Arabic, Coptic (one of my childhood tongues, along with Arabic and Hebrew; not really fluent but I still dream in it at times), classical Greek, Hebrew (written only) and Latin (oddly, since I didn't need it much; I picked it up in Poland and kept with it). I can still remember a few bits of Polish, and while I never lived in French lands, I have a little from it being a major trade/diplomacy language in the 17th-19th centuries. Also a few words in Old Spanish, whatever the Christians spoke in 11th century Iberia. Languages I can still speak and/or read: English, Dutch (a touch archaic), German (albeit a non-modern dialect), Yiddish, Arabic, Coptic (one of my childhood tongues, along with Arabic and Hebrew; not really fluent but I still dream in it at times), classical Greek, Hebrew (written only) and Latin (oddly, since I didn't need it much; I picked it up in Poland and kept with it). I can still remember a few bits of Polish, and while I never lived in French lands, I have a little from it being a major trade/diplomacy language in the 17th-19th centuries. Also a few words in Old Spanish, whatever the Christians spoke in 11th century Iberia.
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 I can read Latin letters, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Fraktur. I can read Latin letters, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Fraktur.
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 ==== See Also ==== ==== See Also ====
  
 **[[The Trust]]** **[[The Trust]]**
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