Library, Sunday All Day

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Today, Evan walked into the library to find a cuddlepile of books in the children's section. From somewhere, they'd managed to find a teddy-bear, and the whole lot of the kids' books were just sort of heaped up around it, doing what Evan could only assume was dozing off.

... Which didn't seem like a half-bad idea, but there was work to be done. Evan would just have to cuddle his puppy after his shift or something, instead.

He did put up a sign near the children's books asking people to be extra quiet when passing by them, though. He didn't want anybody disturbing their naptime.

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Modern American History- Monday- 2nd period

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When the students got to the Danger Shop today, they'd find themselves in a speakeasy. Big woop, their teacher was twenty and ran a bar that they could drink in. She'd run a speakeasy in an AU last year. This was no big deal.

"Today we're covering the 1920's," Kitty began, passing out this week's handouts. "So after World War I, America was doing pretty well for itself. We were a world power. We were having an economic boom. We were getting more industrialized, skyscrapers were starting to go up in the cities, and at the same time we were putting restrictions on immigration and the KKK was an accepted thing so we still had a way to go as a nation. And in October of 1929 the stock market crashed, but we'll be getting more into that next week, so for now let's say it just wasn't good.

"The things the 20's are most known for are probably being the flapper era, and for Prohibition," she went on, gesturing at the bar around her. "In 1919 the Eighteenth Amendment passed, putting a ban on alcohol. Some states would let you have it and drink it in your own home, but bars were a no-no, and there were restrictions on sales to buy it and have it in your own home. As you can imagine, this didn't go over so well. People began smuggling and bootlegging alcohol, selling it on the down low, and you could find hidden bars like this in ordinary businesses if you knew where to go, where you'd give a password. And a lot of the alcohol production and smuggling and handling was done by gangsters, a lot of if centered in Chicago, where Al Capone eventually controlled ten thousand speakeasies. So while Prohibition was supposed to be better morally and healthwise, crime was a big thing, workers at legitimate alcohol manufacturers were out of work, and people were drinking anyway. It turned out to be so unpopular that it was repealed with the Thirty-First Amendment, and while some states didn't change their laws until like, the sixties, at least things started getting back to normal.

"We're going to do a little talking, so you can order yourself a drink, and ironically all the things you get in this speakeasy will be non-alcoholic because it's morning and we're in class, but that's something we're all going to have to live with."

Science You Cannot Possibly Comprehend, Monday, Period 5

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Today in the lab, there was a hull of what sure looked to be a space shuttle in the front of the class. There was also plenty of metal panels and what looked like very thick styrofoam next to the hull.

"Last week, I spoke briefly of the great, early accident that set me upon my path," Doom said. "Never let it be said that Doom possesses no humility." Don't say it, students. Don't. You will get detention.

"This week, I will speak to you of another scientist's defining accident, and how his recklessness only just turned out well for him. The scientist is a man named Doctor Reed Richards. During my youth, his was the only intellect I had met that could compare to my own." Remember, do not say Doom possessed no humility. DON'T DO IT. "While I chose to liberate my country, Richards remained a tool of your government. His great invention was an experimental spacecraft of flawed design. When the government threatened to stop funding his project, Richards stole the ship with a ramshackle crew that was completely unprepared for such a mission."

( Ragging on Mister Fantastic )