-Truth, mercy, love, compassion, selflessness, humility, loyalty, obedience, forgiveness, purity, family and friends, volleyball, board games, beaches, ancient history, mediaeval history, the Crusades, the Templars & Hospitallers, geography, astronomy, religion, theology, concerts, Renaissance festivals,African Grey parrots, mountains, forests, quiet streams, sunrises in winter, sunsets in summer, autumn fragrances, the wintersun, snow, moonlight, thunderstorms, cloudy summer days, sunny winter days, fields of green and deep blue skies above, aurorae, constellations, Major League Baseball, ATP Tennis, Stanley Cup playoffs, volleyball, dead ball era baseball, baseball history. Favourite teams:
-K.C. Royals
-STL Cardinals
-STL Rams
-STL Blues
-Utah Jazz
Jeremiah, Job, Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar king of kings, Cyrus the shepherd of God, Hosea son of Beeri, Prince Bohemond, Pope Urban II, Tancred, Baldwin I, Baldwin II, Raymond of Toulouse, Godfrey de Bouillon, Bishop Ahdemar, Joan of Arc, Richard I Lionheart, Bernard of Clairvaux, Nur-ad-Din, Josef son of Job, Alexius I Comnenus, Anna Comnena, William of Tyre, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, King Josaiah, Mike Martz, So Taguchi, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Pharaoh Necho, Jacques de Molay, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and of course, the Immortal THREE STOOGES.
Composers:
-J.S. Bach
-Vivaldi
-D. Scarlatti
-Allegri
-Josquin
-Palestrina
-Amadeus Mozart
Bands:
-The Finnish Kalmah
-Moonsorrow
-Ensiferum
-Slechtvalk
-Heol Telwen
-Pagan Reign
-Eluveitie
-Odroerir
-Korpiklaani
-Arkona
-Lo-Ruhamah
-Opeth
-Holy Blood
Major League Baseball, NHL hockey, ATP tennis
-**SCRIPTURES**-
-The First Crusade
-The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
-The Warrior Kings
-Chronicles of the Crusades
-The Glory of Their Times
-Treasure Island ("if this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day!")
-The Prince and the Pauper
-the ALEXIAD
-De Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum
-the chronicles of William of Tyre
-The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates. Written by Himself
-Mutiny on the Bounty
-Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
-KIDNAPPED Being the memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour; in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with ALAN BRECK STEWART and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, EBENEZER BALFOUR OF SHAWS, falsely so-called; written by himself, and now set forth by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
-Around the World in Eighty Days
-Antiquities of the Jews
-The Jewish War
-Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles,
sports biographies and autobiographies, books about baseball, tennis, mediaeval history, ancient history, military history, and the CRUSADES.
The Three Stooges and
So Taguchi