Credits

Wondering about who made this site and how? Well, here's your chance to find out! First off, the team:

Kevin

Age (as of 1/1/98): 15
98/99 Grade: Sophomore
School: Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, NJ
Quote: T'was in a restaurant they met, Romeo and Juliet. Julie could not pay the debt, so Romey-owed what Julie-et.

Dmitry

Age (as of 1/1/98): 16
98/99 Grade: Junior
School: Edward R. Murrow High School, NY
Quote: "Instant human, just add coffee"

Yelena

Age (as of 1/1/98): 14
98/99 Grade: Freshman/Sophomore
School: Edward R. Murrow High School, NY
Quote: "Ask not about height, ask about maturity level"

Next, the coaches, who supported, encouraged, tested, and suggested:

Mrs. Diane McKenna

Mrs. McKenna teaches math at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in New Jersey. Her hobbies include computers and shopping.

Mr. Kenneth Grebinar

Mr. Grebinar teaches art at Edward R. Murrow High School in New York. His hobbies include traveling and Art History.

Mr. Paul Lobashov

Mr. Lobashov is an associate at the Investment Banking Technology group at J.P. Morgan in New York.

No great work goes unaided, and Empires Past is no exception to that. Here are some people we'd like to thank:

Anatoly Sharfman for making and animating the 3D models and composing the music for Empires Past: The Sands of Time (the movie).
Some images are pictures of exhibits from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which the Team visited on July 10, 1998.
All of our parents and friends who supported us throughout the development process and gave many useful (and some less so) critiques of the site.

As any work that requires research, Empires Past includes a full, formal bibliography, which is a formal listing of all the sources used for research. Note that nothing was plagiarized from any source--see notice below for the Team's opinion on unauthorized reproduction.

© Copyright 1998 ThinkQuest Team 16325. No portion of this site may be reproduced without the expressed written permission of ThinkQuest Team 16325.

In case you were considering the possibility of plagiarizing some of our articles, there are many reasons why you should not plagiarize the work of others:

If you plagiarize, Jupiter/Huitzilopochtli/Re will strike you with a thunderbolt (or even worse--a lawsuit).
Why plagiarize when you can cite? Read the text, understand it, compare it with other research materials, form your own conclusions, write your own report, and cite this site as a source. It's that simple!
If you plagiarize from our site, we will sue you. It's that simple. This work is protected by copyright, and any infringement on this copyright is grounds for a lawsuit.
Don't you have a conscience? Plagiarizing the works of others is wrong, and thinking about the many, many long hours of hard work put into this will keep you awake at nights. We guarantee it!
Each person's writing style is unique, and your teacher will notice the difference in writing style between your previous works and a plagiarized one. Some people who plagiarize material go through it sentence by sentence and change it to suit their style, but isn't it better (and safer) to write it in the first place?
If you plagiarize, you will probably fail any test or quiz given on the subject matter, and questions will start to come up...