I’d have to go with Star Wars on this one Alex.
Although I’ve made forays into Simpsons, Family Guy, Daria, Boy Meets World, Buffy, and most recently Angel, I can only claim true expertise in a galaxy far, far away.
The Brothers Lloyd Webber. I know more about them than they do.
Rulon is a physical freak for two reasons:
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His stamina was incredible. Because he didn’t need to severely cut weight to make the 120-kg limit, Rulon was able to carry extra pounds that improved his balance and par terre (on-the-mat) defense while maintaining incredible stamina that allowed him to wear down 90% of the people he wrestled. Combine that with…
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His enormous chest. Rulon’s chest was so big that the clinch rules actually favored him. If a match is 0-0 after the first period, or if neither wrestler has 3 points at the end of regulation, the wrestlers go into a move called ‘the Clinch,’ where each wrestler hooks over one arm and under the other and locks his hands behind his opponent’s back. Among other things, breaking your hands in the clinch without going straight to a scoring move is penalized by a caution and one point. Rulon could expand his chest and break his opponent’s lock very easily, especially if the opponent was tired.
As a heavyweight, Rulon wasn’t expected or even encouraged to look for big throws - Aleksandr Karelin’s ubiquitous 5-point reverse body lift was a MAJOR exception to this rule. Rulon’s strategy is to play it safe, and so he doesn’t get caught as some foreign wrestlers do in trying to force things. Rather, he’s a master tactician who uses his body to its full advantage.
Flying and sport boomeranging.
I’ve heard of Andrew. There’s another?
I’m another one of those people who goes for breadth without formal credentials, but right now, the thing I know most about is DVD authoring.
This falls under extremely, extremely esoteric material, but I likely know more about the records of the confiscation of church plate under King Edward VI in England than any living person. The middle two chapters of my recently completed D.Phil dissertation (“Parish, People and the English Bible in East Anglia, 1525-1560”) covered them in some detail, and the dissertation examiner, the top English Reformation historian in the UK, stated that I had “shed significant new light” on them. (From him, that would be glowing praise.)
I suppose you could add “the early versions of the printed English Bible” to that, too.
Then, there’s the history of cricket, which these days I’d rather write a book on than British history.
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Duke, you mention cricket. Where can I find out more about the life of Richard Humphrey? There’s only very skimpy info online.
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Series (sometimes called Category) Romances.
A relative of yours?
Well, here’s his CricInfo record, which doesn’t show much more than your link. If he died in 1906, I would check the Wisden Cricket Almanacks for 1907 and 1908 for his obituary (sometimes players who passed away late in the year appear in the following year’s Almanack). Anybody who ever played first-class cricket, even in one match, gets an obit in the Almanack. The University of Toronto doesn’t have any of the Almanacks, unfortunately, but if you have access to a place with an interlibrary loan service you might be able to get hold of them, as there are a handful of places in North America that have them.
Two other sources will be helpful:
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If you’re ever in Philadelphia, the Christopher Morris Cricket Library might be of help. Alternatively, they might be able to send you a photocopy of the relevant Wisden page. You can contact them at ccmorris@haverford.edu; here is their webpage.
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I know that Surrey Cricket Club has a pretty good library. According to their webpage, you can contact them at enquiries@surreycricket.com. If you e-mailed them with your request, I am sure they could send you some information.
Good luck!
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Thanks, Duke! He was my great-grandfather. We think.
Ooh! Look what I found, Sunspace! A whole article on Richard Humphrey!!!
Will that help? 
I know plenty about general programming, especially languages popular on Unix machines (I’m a C freak, a Bourne shell fan, and no slouch in the new wave interpreted languages, either). I know a fair bit of functional programming, but I’m more involved with Scheme than Haskell. I can avoid shooting my foot off in languages as varied as Brainfuck and DCL, but I’ve never gotten into Prolog or serious SQL programming. I will admit to knowing COBOL, but I think FORTRAN’s more fun. (Heh. Arithmetic IFs, assigned GOTOs, and implied DO-loops are neat. COBOL has to limp along with the ALTER verb.) (No, I don’t know FORTRAN 95 especially well, although I can read F95 code. F77 is as advanced as I went.)
I like assembly language, and while I’m not a guru on any specific machine’s ISA or internals, I can comport myself well on all generations of x86 Intel chips, the PDPs 8, 11, and VAX, the IBM System/360 (only in userland BAL, however), the MIPS R2000, and the Intel 4004 (first single-chip microcomputer).
I like to think I’m pretty good with the history of punk and ska, and I can generally place a song in a specific genre and timeframe without much trouble. I dislike 90s skater- and pop-punk, however, and I shall listen to my Clash, Ramones, and NOFX albums while I gleefully tell Blink-182 and Green Day where to shove it.
Not that I know anything about him other than what’s on this page, but Julian Lloyd Webber is a cellist of some renown.
As for my area of especial expertise, I’d have to say women’s collegiate and professional basketball, but I’m also enough of a generalist that I honestly believe I could give Ken “39 and Counting” Jennings a run for his money on Jeopardy!.
Sternvogel beat me to it. If you want a really great CD, get “Julian Lloyd Webber plays Andrew Lloyd Webber.” Andrew also wrote “Variations” for Julian, which later became the “Dance” part of “Song & Dance.” Great work.
Andrew & Julian’s father William Lloyd Webber was also a musician (church organist), and wrote some music. But he gave up too easily when it wasn’t received well. Andrew & Julian have since put out some CDS of it.
I could write the “Brothers Lloyd Webber” definitive biography.
Can’t be called an expert on anything as I never stick long enough at one thing . Top of the list tho I spose is Alexander the Great.
It’s a toss up between particle physics, branding (the trademark/copyright stuff, not cows and hot irons), and the Japanese wedding industry.
There’s also some seemier stuff I’ve built up a fair bit of knowledge about, but I’l just leave that aside.
well, I know more than most people on basic Christian theology & lots of variations thereof, somewhat less on Judaic & Neo-Pagan, Right-wing libertarian ideologies & conspiracy theories, and classic horror film & literature.
Real professionals in any of those categories could probably clean my clock, however.