slash history. ear andi have been subconsciousy preparing this lecture for 33 years. the subject i m about to delve into is so near and dear that the thought of turning it into a top would not have occurred to me without a prompt. so, i would like to begin with some extraordinarily sincere thank you. to matt anna scott stevenson here at the museum of the american revolution for poaching meet with a request for a lecture on this subject for this particular audience. i think i may i was honored by your invitation and very, very excited to be here. how about a quick round of applause for the entire staff, including their hospitality staff? our wonderful hosts for putting this all together [applause] scott, i will go on the record and say that your are tastier than iran s. is there anyone amongst us that is not heard of the legendary duo to our particular sector of nerding us, they are super heroes. they are to us what batman and robin are two comic book kicks of