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-Archimedes, The Nile, The Water Wheel Archimedes was a lad from Siciliy, in the town of Syracuse. Because of his ecellence, he received a shcolarship attend the finest university in the world as known in Alexandria. And then a teacher posed a question: how to get water up to the fields from the river Nie. Egypt - Where Civilization Began Our ancestry goes back several million years, but it is only the past ten thousand years, from Jerico in present day Syria, to the fertile delta of the Nile, and later at Sumerian sites in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.But first to fully bloosom as an empire was Egypt Cleopatra and Mark Antony - Lessons For Today After her relationship with Julius Caesar Mark Antony, one of three selected senators to rule as triumverent, and see that dissolve to Octavian becoming August Caesar. Diamonds - How Body Color Affects Value Color remains a major factor in what people notice when they first look at a diamond. Diamonds - Are Old Cuts More Valuable To know that diamonds are forever is to accept that the purchase of a diamond is a firm statement of commitment. Cleopatra - Egyptian Legend, Lessons For Today Cleopatra, unlike the legendary Helen of Troy, was a real live person, the fourth and last Ptolmy to rule Egypt. George Washington - His Origins, And His Canal George Washington, founder of the United States of America, was also an innovative thinker. He was a very astute business man, as well as a victorious general. and first president of the United States of America. Diamonds - Exciting New Shapes; Antique Bargains Diamonds have come a long way in recent decades in the specialized world of diamonds. There are the classics, but now cutters are trying new cuts. Benjamin Franklin And His Place In History Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, a respected politian at all levels, state and nationsl spokesman,orator, a publisher and truly one of the Founding Fathers of America. Franklin Delano Roosevelt And Today - Ivory And Ebony Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a towering figure of world stature during the decades he was President of the United States of America. Alexander The Great - His Influence in Persia To study the full life of Alexander the Great requires that you view him as warrior, builder, creator. Alexander brought much additional distinctions in archicture and much else. Alexander Graham Bell - Innovation Through Effort Alexander Graham Bell had an inventive and curious mind, and his achievement of the telephone alone earn him great admiration and a place in history. Alexander The Great - The Natural Leader To examine the life from 356-323 B.C. of Alexander the Great as natural leader leaves you to be in admiration of such a man. Diamonds Are A Heart's Best Friend Diamonds need to be fully understood by the cutter before he or she makes that first cut. Hannibal :Elephants Over The Alps To Attack Rome Hannibal grew up in a military home, and went off to war with his father. He learned to hate Romans.He was a brilliant strategist. Attila the Hun and The Fall of Rome The fall of Rome began in the year 405 AD and the attacks by barbarians who saw ripe pickings and easy people to plunder. The Diamond: Its Total Personality The study of the gemologist or the jeweler is a mystery to most of us, and yet it need not be so. Be As One With Your Diamond Over the ages precious gems topped by the illustrious diamond have held a place of special merit by people whether in their village, town or city. China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Shenzhen, formerly a quiet sea town near Hong Kong, is now China's showpiece special economic zone. It was also the first. Chinese Herbal Medicines Over The Centuries Chinese medicine has evolved very dfferently than medical practice in the west,where we treat the wound and they treat the body. China's Chairman Mao: Savior Or Backward Leaper The veils of mystery keep being pulled away from the myth of Chairman Mao, who in 1949 chased Chiang Kai Shek off mainland China. China: The Merit Of Saving Face To Chinese people, the most important aspect of relationships is in saving, or having face. To personally face some public humility would cause a loss of face. China And Its History Of Dynasties A dynasty is taken here as the period of time that one family or close group control a nation. China has had many dynasties, good and bad. China: The Way of the Tao in Today's China The Way of the Tao comes to us from Lao tsu, a philosopher who lived in the sixth century BC. China's Animals: Dragon to Panda There is no place like a Panda's home base. That base is shrinking each year with poaching and logging, yet efforts to rebuild and renew allow hope. Chinese Architecture - Past and Present Much of old China around any major cities is being torn down and people being housed in towers. Diamonds, Clarity Grades, Diamond Values We look at how the clarity grade affects diamond value and what the novice or part time gemologist should watch for. Flawless Natural Diamond - or HPHT Enhanced To purchase a true clear flawless diamond or a diamond with tinting it's yellowish treated away by the process HPHT may cost you dearly. Diamond Grades - Which Color Is Most Desirable The color grading system evolved early, in primitive forms, to have all see and agree which gem was a rare flawless beauty, and which displyed many imperfections. Diamond Clarity - Its Effect On The Diamond's Beauty You must understand that it makes little, if any effect by clarity itself to display beauty in the diamond. Fluorescent Diamonds - Does Blue, Or Canary Yellow Increase Value Fluorescent diamonds have an aura mixed between nervousness that blue or canary yellow might lower, and hope they increase the value of a diamond.One does. Diamond Clarity - Do You See What I See Clarity allows us to see inside a diamond, for example, and see each imperfection or flaw. For in nature there is no such thing as flawless. Step Lightly Over My Chameleon Diamond and Other Stresses Did you know there was a chameleon diamond? And that the slight yellowish tinge causes it deflated prices from the more pure white diamonds. Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire: The Big Three Of Gemstones Of all the gemstones available to us, in status the big three of the gemstones are emerald, ruby, and sapphire. Body Color In A Diamond When selecting a diamond, color is one of the most important factors for you to consider when you are selecting a special gem for your family. Is There A Diamond In The House? To contrast a human medical doctor to a diamond is to jest, for while we might covet the diamond, only the doctor could save our live. Yet the diamond has such an aura in its way. Master Your Loupe To Expose The Soul Of Your Diamond The gemologists favored tool is the glorified magnifying glass with handles, the Loupe, which is held close to the best eye to see inside the the soul of the diamond, every flaw, every frailty, each grand purity. Diamonds Can Be More Than For Ever Diamonds being that hardest of the minerals are able to make a cut in steel or in a ladies heart it is that hard and that soft. Your Diamond Should Be Much More Than A Cut Above Nothing stands for the integrity of bonded love between two people like a wedding band and a diamond, Love, diamonds, forever, and on such are dreams built on. Diamonds Are Magic Touched By Divinity All through history, gemstones and diamonds have been held in reverence as a momento to be given to a favored daughter or a noblemen who has performed great sacrifices for the group. Such artifacts when found now are rare and almost priceless. Diamonds Are Nature's Perfect Investment Diamonds come to us directly from the hellish cauldrons miles beneath our feet as pure carbon somehow changed from common coal to this amazing perfect investment. Basic Steps To Check Out A Diamond Diamonds may be the key to a girl's heart, and be forever. They also are the harder subsence known to man. Diamonds Inspire, Diamond Eyes Light The Way To possess diamonds is to feel you have life well under hand. To feel rich is to feel free. Diamond Souls, Diamond Eyes, Diamond Ways You operate in diamonds as they are, well, so brilliant. Unlike the gas or oil man, you shine up well. Diamonds Sparkle Inn Side Out Diamonds are the great gem of mystery, gorgeous women, fast cars, jets, excitement. They also makes the machines of the world go round. Do You Know The Way to Hell And Back If so you have viewed up God's arse as if Joe Stalin had farted, news flash, millions fleeing to the west, wall being built all around hell as we see.Are we in or out? God is waiting. American Antiques, American Rebirth - Another Roosevelt Era Coming? Never since the era of the great depression have the American people seemed so ready to welcome a change from disastrous policies of conversatives in power. Rare Antiques Moments Live On - Peaks of Love, Depths of Despair English artist John Constable changed modern art and enjoyed great love amidst poverty. When his beloved wife died, leaving him 7 children, his art darkened. Chinese antiques, Modern China - Savior to Africa? Ancient China until now has been very inward, but the need for raw materials to feed the expanding economy has China outwit the west, winning hearts in Africa. American Antiques, New York City - Historical Quirks, NYC Is World City There is no place like home, if you live in New York City, which after 9/11 seems to be more civil, fun, busy lives in your center of the universe still. American Antiques - Roman Swords, Greek Heroes, How America Comes Back Every Time American history shows when violence and hatred boils over into war, here and abroad. Always, after, more needed is the healing soul of a Lincoln from us all. American Antiques Hero Legacies In Need Of Update - Big John! President John F. Kennedy, both warrior and peace maker, as leader of the free world, stared down The Evil Empire at Cuba. He also created the Peace Corps. Dolls, Figurines, Toys, Foods - Also Army Intelligence, Bravo! The recent images of returning American soldiers from Iraq war duty being given down time to deliver foods, toys and security in flooded villages is good for all. Dolls, Figurines, Truths Revealed - Yes, Virginia, There Is Military Intelligence! To rephase that there is a Santa as long as there is love, so we see true Military Intelligence in sending soldiers on mercy duty on their way home from Iraq. Dolls, Figurines, Pinatas - Cinco de Mayo, Aided By America's Good Army! The 5th of May is not Mexico's Independence Day, but rather a great victory over France with American help in 1862. It is a festival day in America and Mexico. Tribal Jewelry, Exquisite Historical Relics - Under The Parking Lot As progress often gets ahead of our understanding of what was there before, much is lost daily in our plunge to the future, blind to the vanishing past. Buy Chinese Antiques, Still Vitally Alive - Ignore New Dragon CO2 Bargains As Chinese antiques reached the west all were in awe of such exquisite works created in a pristine ancient world. Now, coal dust in our eyes, we buy their junk. Dolls and Figurines, Food Giving After War - Brilliance From The Military! How heart warming to see and hear American soldiers being diverted from Iraq to give food aid and child care in famine areas before coming home. Brilliant! Tribal Jewelry, Declining Artifacts - Under Hungry Resource Machinery Tribal jewelry and precious artifacts everywhere are disappearing, or being destroyed under heavy machinery to extract resources for an ever hungry world. Dolls, Figurines, Foods, Friendships, Healing - Military Intelligence! The smiling faces of American soldiers distribute food in central America on their way home from duty in Iraq is immensely wise therapy. Well done, US Military! Purchase Chinese Antiques, Bypass Modern Dragon Death Buys Chinese antiques, exquisite, delicate statements from long ago, in a civilized time. Yet daily China belches more noxious CO2 coal into the air that now reaches us, making cheapest goods we buy, need them or not. Chinese Antiques, China's Olympics - Less Athens, More Roman Circus? That China is a glorious civilization in no need of democracy is what we hear from their leaders today, as always. Why the Olympic Freedom Torch from Athens? Chinese Antiques Are Wise Buys - Dirty Coal China, Pass On By Chinese antiques are exquisitly crafted artifacts from a glorious past. Modern China, in contrast, spews out noxious fumes to create cheap goods and acts the bully. Chinese Antiques; Wise, Glorious - China Now; 1936 Berlin Olympics? Chinese antiques were carefully created over eons. Modern China makes cheap goods with dollar an hour labor, beats monks, pollutes. 1936 Berlin Olympics? Japanese Antiques, Modern Japan - Less Samurai, More Buddha The recent actions of Japanese against the Chinese Olympic torch run through Japan shows a nation closer to the civilized world; brave people shaming China. Chinese Antiques, China Today - Ancient Elegance, Now Brutal Bully The exquisite Chinese antiques of long ago were lovingly crafted into a Ming vase for a noble; today's coal factories belch out copies we all line up to buy. Buy Chinese Antiques Mings, Help Clean China's Coal Sky - Don't Buy Dragon Breath New To ever enjoy simple natural blue sky again, we need to refine some of our proud industrial progress. Coal to China needs filters as it now fouls air in North America, we are all now so connected. Chinese Antiques, Ming's, Delicate Things - While Wrecking Ball Swings Scenes of bulldozers and wrecking balls smashing over historic sites in China; the looting, loss of Chinese antiques is happening now, for cement factories. Buy Chinese Antiques, Ignore China's Olympics and Modern Products Chinese dignitaries defend their polluted air and smoke stacks that spew incredible volumes of unfiltered coal ash into the air; which we now breath on the west coast of America, fouling our lungs and plants. Such progress! Buy Chinese Antiques, Silks, Mings - Not Modern China, CO2 Coal Cancer Kings After Marco Polo, Mighty Khan swept his golden hordes west; their layers of silk were able to absorb, twist around our arrows, which they could twist back out,toss aside. Now it is their CO2, absorbing into our lungs. Chinese Antiques, Filthy Modern China - Oliver's Deathly London? Chinese antiques are as delicate and intricate as any on earth, whether a Ming vase or miniature figure. Yet this land of such grace and elegance is at the moment rather like the hellish London in the Victorian era of Oliver. Tribal Jewelry, - Rare Artifacts Still Intact The point at which we as humans evolved from tribal jewelry to civilized artifacts could be said to be around when we advanced from hunter gatherers to town dwellers, each with a specialized skill. Chinese Antiques, China Today - Dragon Breathe In Our Lungs Chinese celebrations always include many people under a paper dragon skin, all weaving, much fireworks and smoke. China is now mother earth's fire and CO2 smoke breathing dragon king. We all need to turn off the smoke machines. Tribal Jewelry Remnants, Civilization Bulldozers - What We Can Save The moments when civilized societies met those who offered tribal jewelry in good faith has not always ended in mutual good will for all. Some lose, some win but lose their souls. Examples abound: here are several. Tribal Jewelry, Fewer True Artifacts - Yet Beat Europe Back In 1000 A D We know that in the north of Newfoundland in the year 1000,Lief Ericson and his Vikings created a village and made a life. They named it Vinland, but after several years of attack from the natives, they left forever. Chinese Antiques, Dirty Skies - Filters on Coal, Plant a Tree China is most polluted, yet doing much to clean while it dirties; we need a cleaner mother earth. Time for green;less acid rain, dirty coal burning, dying species and a future we fear. Each small step to the next, one baby tree at a time. Diamonds Make The World Go Round Diamonds are on everyone's mind when a construction site is at a standstill until the man with diamond drill saw gets through the obstacle. Sometimes it is that way with humans as well. Chinese Antiques, Blue Skies - Now World's Dirty CO2 Coal King Diamonds may be the touch of God, but their dirty carbon cousin coal reigns supreme in China, now the world's greatest polluter, announced today. Filthy air, batons on skulls, not an ideal Olympics atmosphere, cough, ouch. Chinese Antiques Brilliance, Coal Plants CO2 - Filters, or Hell on Earth An irony of carbon is how it can graduate from common dirty coal into diamonds from the inner fires of mother earth. Problem is, China's growth has too many carbon burning coal plants, none of whom have the new filters. Japanese Antiques History - Shoguns, Swords to Now Japanese history involves warlords, two fearful Mongol attempts to invade, fearful and inward until Admiral Perry's fleet forced open trade. From 1854 to now has been quite a ride, swords, bombs, now prosperity, peace. Japanese Antiques - Samurai Swords, Delicate Grace The amazing contrast of Japan seems to be in the example of the sword and the silk curtain: fierce warfare outside, yet shoes off and quiet tea in the home in Buddhist bliss.Did he who made the lamb make thee? Diamonds That Sparkle - Investments to Grow New diamond finds in the hot deserts of Australia and the cold northern rocks of Canada have come just as new wealth in Asia creates increasing demands for riches from coal to diamonds. And they come in all shapes and forms. Diamonds from Coal - Sign of a Smile from God The irony of lightning is that through history as it can be seen, it became as bolts from an angry God. And yet from the hellish fires inside earth come occasional fiery bolts flash up to the surface through cracks between ancient rock and carbon to become diamonds. Diamonds - How Lumps of Coal Rise To Brilliance Diamonds are carbon and as such share their common elemental structure with coal. But some times the intense fire from inner earth that rises through earth to change seams of coal to diamonds is magic, or the touch of God. Diamonds, Science, Brilliance, Bliss - Happiness, Gratification, or Deeper? Examples of happiness as being deeper than self gratification can be seen in the lifestyles between more God loving democratic Greece with self centered Romans with horses as gods. Diamonds or Coal For Brains. Sir Walter Raleigh, Men of Old Ironsides. The Wiser Pirates? A story going the rounds is the log of the USS Constitution, old Ironsides, in pirate attacks on English ships and Scotch whiskey in 1798. Drunken pirates. Diamond Minds, Science, Logic - The Promised Land Is Still West Studies are being completed on the science of happiness. Those parts of the brain light up when joy is experienced, but it only happens in a serene environment. Diamonds, Godliness - Buddha, 3 Wise Men, Socrates, Aristotle. And Us? We follow the known lifetimes of that sources of the wise men from the east who were there at the birth of Jesus. they had been visiting the area for five hundred years. Diamond Minds, Global Warming: Cheap Fuel,Clean Water from Our Toilets? Many ways will be used to cool mother earth, we know. Also know this: toilets that convert potty to methane are lighting gas stoves in China. So what keeps us off that pot? Besides the pride. Always before the fall. Diamonds That Sparkle Within, Sparkle Throughout The story of diamonds is the search not only for that which sparkles most on a hand, wrist or a neck. But also those eyes and soul of diamonds is what draws you to her, and it bas been so since time began. Diamond Minds, Blue Skies - On the Train from New York to London, Don't Look Down An international magazine outlined a rail network that could virtually encircle the globe. It could cut those kerosine jet trails of pollution, with enough dirty coal plant shut downs, to allow us blue skies.In whose life time? Diamond Minds, Brilliant Vision - A Sparkling Future Could Be It will take more brilliant diamond like thinking than the present lump of coal mentality of an ostrich, head in the sand, that all is well, I see no evil. The coming smog will have us see no good, unless those diamond minds rise above the coal. Keep Red Ants From Black Ants The deepest early independent thinker, Henry David Thoreau, would lie and watch red and black ants, busy in their duties from their queen. But if they met, all leafs were off, it was fight to the death. Diamonds that Sparkle, One Metro Europe - Charlemagne, not Caesar We see further events unfolding daily about the concept of a wider Europe. Germany has told France it will be not a split empire. Ms Hans sounds like Patton: she and Frank do not get along. Diamond Mind, Diamond Soul - The Brilliant Humanity of Leonardo The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be. Diamond Minds, Diamond Eyes - The Sight of Europe From Sahara to Santa The diamonds we find in the ground are as shafts of light out of the hellish inside earth, or sparkles from God. We see diamonds in most holy eyes, so we think diamonds are gifts from God. Diamonds, Gemstones, Lumps of Coal - Another Strike at the Dragon's Soul The diamond of long distant runners in the world, that is the world's fastest, says he may skip these Olympics for his health. 26 miles of rapid inhalation in such coal dust air would shorten his life. China holds it's breath. Diamond Minds, Metro Europe - Libya Wants In! When we see and hear leaders of Europe on a British television speak to a delegate from Russia, and from Serbia, we hear of their amazing brilliant thinking. Their minds are beyond beyond those of the man from Russia and the man from Serbia. Diamonds That Sparkle - In Her Eyes, With You Diamonds that sparkle; we all know what that means. It is the amazement of creation to make a diamond from a raw lump of coal. And the diamonds in the eyes, and the souls of some more, we discuss diamonds, and lumps of coal. Roman Antiques to Now - German Hans Sacked Rome, China's Hans Sack Tibet It is an irony to consider that the Germanic chaps with the name of Hans would have destroyed a civilization in Rome. And now Chinese Hans destroy the Buddhist civilization of Tibet. All named Hans, stop, and go home.
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