I get that some pronounce it real-tore, but I work with the NAR and local realtor boards and I find that either pronunciation is acceptable. Personally I think "realitor" is more common so i don't get what that comment is about
I attended public schools in my home state of CT as well as a few years in SD. Both states pushed that the main factors of the civil war were political and economical and that slavery only got mixed up in the equation once the emancipation proclamation was signed in 1863, 2 years into the war. I've never done much research on my own (American history and especially war history has always bored the Dickens out of me) but that's something I think i'll look into.
[more nerd] and even if he did have the needed ocular implants, that's NOT how his visor works. It registers energy patterns, radiation, and various elements in the environment. He doesn't actually "see" with it. Not only is the view through Geordi's visor shown to us in the series - there's also an episode where Q gives him real sight briefly and he can finally see everyone and is moved by it. [/more nerd]