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Originally Posted by A Thousand Pardons
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Originally Posted by IMO
He did not quite rank as an Alpha
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Originally Posted by Arneb
A shot in the dark: Because he was the second of that name?
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PS: you all can look it up if you like, I found it in Cosmos just a few minutes ago. Sagan said he found the Assuan well info in an old papyrus he was reading, while he was director of the library at Alexandria 
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Thats funny, my Cosmos says that some of his contemporaries called him that because he was second best in everything he did ... i.e. not quite Alpha