Science victory on turn 343. Been so long since I've played Vanilla, I almost forgot how -- GS usage is quite different! Maybe I should have planted more than 2 academies.
Napoleon declared war early, even tho' we had a research agreement and I had a bigger military than him; I didn't expect that. I captured Orleans (because it was closer) but didn't take Paris until much later because i didn't want to poison my relationships with the other AI's just yet.
Catherine was the only AI that was almost keeping up with me in science. I'm not sure how she was keeping up because she had 15 or so crappy little cities.
England and Siam were amazingly weak and ineffectual. Germany was the scapegoat that we all hated; hating Bismarck was the basis of most of our friendships.
Fun game, but I think I'm mostly gonna stick to G&K and BNW; too much click click click with nothing to do but build unnecessary wonders while waiting for techs to complete. (I captured Hanging Gardens from France, Great Wall from Germany after I had artillery so it didn't matter, and built about 15 or 20 wonders myself.) Might could have finished faster if I put my cities on food-focus and built beakers instead of wonders.