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He is the AI who works with and possibly oversees the [[Oni|Office of naval intelligence, ONI]]. His appearance is of a ghostly robed figure, its hands and face hidden in its sleeves and hood. | He is the AI who works with and possibly oversees the [[Oni|Office of naval intelligence, ONI]]. His appearance is of a ghostly robed figure, its hands and face hidden in its sleeves and hood. | ||
==Trivia== | |||
*[[Wiki:uncyclopedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]] is also an Old English epic about a warrior of the same name. The warrior lived sometime between the 3rd century BC and the 17th century AD in what is now called Scandinavia. He is best known for the vowels in his name because at the time the manuscript was supposedly written, vowels hadn't yet been discovered. | |||
*The great Beowulf scholar [[Wiki:lotr:Beowulf|J. R. R. Tolkien]] noted that the name Beowulf almost certainly means bee-wolf in Old English. The name Beowulf is therefore a kenning for "bear" due to a bear's love of honey and to the similarity and not-so-distant kinship between ursines and canines. | |||
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Revision as of 05:55, July 17, 2006
He is the AI who works with and possibly oversees the Office of naval intelligence, ONI. His appearance is of a ghostly robed figure, its hands and face hidden in its sleeves and hood.
Trivia
- Beowulf is also an Old English epic about a warrior of the same name. The warrior lived sometime between the 3rd century BC and the 17th century AD in what is now called Scandinavia. He is best known for the vowels in his name because at the time the manuscript was supposedly written, vowels hadn't yet been discovered.
- The great Beowulf scholar J. R. R. Tolkien noted that the name Beowulf almost certainly means bee-wolf in Old English. The name Beowulf is therefore a kenning for "bear" due to a bear's love of honey and to the similarity and not-so-distant kinship between ursines and canines.
