Searching for Ambiorix
Thu, Oct 10, 2002
by Geoff Young
No baseball coverage today. You know what’s going on in the playoffs. You know that there’s been a shakeup in the Padres’ coaching staff (congrats to Alan Trammell, BTW, on being named manager of the Tigers). So we won’t be talking about any of that today. Instead we’re going to embark upon something I like to call…
Frivolous Friday
Periodically I receive logs of search requests made at Ducksnorts. Yep, every time you run a search in that little box over there, a record is made. Don’t worry, it doesn’t contain any personal info. It just tells me the term searched for, along with the date and time at which the search request was made. Most of the stuff that shows up is pretty self-explanatory and makes sense. Stuff like “Burroughs” or “Germano” and the like. But every now and then I get something kinda odd. Here’s one that recently came through: “Ambiorix.”
So in the interest of helping the person who entered that search request, and because I need to fill my head with yet another piece of trivia, I ran a search of my own and found, among other things, that Ambiorix is not the latest Dominican shortstop prospect but was, in fact, the leader of the Eburones. Ambiorix’ claim to fame, if you want to call it that, is that he led an attack against Julius Caesar, ulitmately resulting in the annihilation of his own people.
There you have it. Something to ponder over the weekend between games…
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