Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky and he ended his life shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, dying on April 15, 1865 inWashington, D.C.

{Robot} As a result, their cities on this planet were destroyed. Finally, those few Atlanteans who survived founded a new country on the continent of Pangea 2. But that country also was destroyed in a conflict. Destroyed by the power of Tris Megistus, the one you are the heir of.
{Nadia} Tris Megistus?
{Robot}Once, it was called the Philosopher's Stone.

Tris Megistus? Oh, perhaps...Of course! It refers to Hermes Trismegistos (Tris+Megistus), the ideal founder of alchemy and its Philosopher's Stone!

In this case, Hermes Trismegistos would be quite similar to Gargoyle and both recall the original sin: the human pride, grown proud by the knowledge, that challanges the divinity.

And the Philosopher's stone? The fundamental concept of alchemy stemmed from the Aristotelian doctrine that all things tend to reach perfection. Alchemists believed gold to be the perfect metal; that's why they sought to fabricate or discover a substance, the so-called Philosopher's stone, that could be used to bring the baser metals up to the perfection of gold.

Other sources report that the ermetic doctrine shouldn't be ascribed to a man but to "Hermes the god". In this case, the origin of the name "Trismegistos" would be an ancient Egyptian god called Thot.

In other words, we are waiting for signals from a Tower of Babel JJ

[Article taken from "Focus" -italian edition- Feb2002]

Knowing Anno's passion for art (do you remember Neo's throne hall and Elektra's bedroom, don't you? J) maybe it's not a coincidence that Jean lives there...You know, perhaps they had to choose a harbour-town from where the boy could start his journey to Paris by his ship, and....

Interesting how his notes aren't just a series of scribbles (as it often happens in anime and cartoons) but Gainax staff tried to make them more realistic.

In fact, as you can see from the image on the left (which I tried -unsuccessfully- to make more readable...), there are a lot of words in capital letters, but only "Intermetallic Compo" can be easily read. According to the image in the left page, it seems a status graph of a bimetallic compound (in a few words, a graph which shows how the fusion point of a compound varies according to the % of the two components)

At this point, "intermetallic" (and not "bimetallic") can be a mistake...Or, at least, "intermetallic" refers to the relations between (inter-) two or more components.