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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. 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. Healthy Lifestyles, Happiness - Science Shows Eight Ways to Bliss We all know the good feeling we got as boy or girl scouts when we helped a little old lady across the street. Our cultural model has had us be trained to do a good deed every day, so by dinner time you might a frantic scout looking for a little old lady on a corner. Science now shows that that state of mind creates a long living, healthy, happy person, far above the average. Healthy Lifestyles, Napoleon In London - While Asia Ascends The world is changing daily. The two old empire building enemies, Britain and France are closer friends, while Asia ascends. The French President just had a sleep over at Windsor Castle. Each have common enemies, they see. Healthy Lifestyles, Power, God, and Allah - A New Crescent of Peace? Alexander the Great was having his people create the greater new Athens at the mouth of the Nile. But his men worried that he wandered west for a holy man and almost died in the sand. They met at an oasis,blessed each other. Roman Antiques, Science - Archimedes, Rome Lives On In Scotland Youthful honor scholar Archimedes from Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily showed his genius in great Alexandria when he solved the problem of how to lift water up from the Nile to irrigate the fields. Killed on a beach back home as the Romans took over, his Archimedes screw, which is not unlike a ferris wheel, lives on anew at a canal in Scotland and makes use of a Roman tunnel nearby. Greek Antiques, Amazon Women - Absorbed Into Vast Asia The amazing stories of Greek Amazon women warriors have always seemed as of legend. However, scientists have shown that there exists today golden haired blue eyed Mongol peoples with DNA matches to these Amazon women. They hold an amazing story of ancient survival against all odds. Greek Antiques, Democracy, Modern China - Brutal Panda In Tibet The recently released television actions by Chinese police seen beating fallen Tibetan monks in their sacred city makes the blood boil of millions of us around the world. Healthy Lifestyles - Examples From 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. Greek Antique Democracy, Modern Healing Power - A Lincoln Could Help Again The wisdom of Abraham Lincoln in contrast to the rather rash use of power and self interest to favor the rich and punish the poor of the incumbent: sharp contrast. This letter from Lincoln to Grant indicates how. American Antiques, Historic Barriers - Gates vs Walls In American history it has never come to this. The richest man in the world finds his America walls off his newest hired employees. What to do? Set up plants in Canada and Mexico and India, for starters. Greek Antiques, Democracy , Open To All - Except Inside China's Bunker There is much irony of a protester from Tibet stealing the show, if only for a moment, while the man from China spoke about harmony and brotherhood. This spoke loudly, as did the criticism of China about poor security. Diamonds, Gemstones, Gold Mountain - Chinese Antiques, Wealth Over East The gold fields, diamonds and gemstones of California first brought the Chinese during the 1848 Gold rush, and soon after they built the railway, they had laundry shops across America and Chinese restaurants at every whistle stop. New Americans, fed you, did your laundry. Healthy Lifestyles - More Soul Of Aristotle, Less Sword Of Caesar Healthy lifestyles seem so unlikely for so many people in places that seem on fire: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, Darfur. The world is nearing a boil with the weather and the politics. Time to cool down. Greek Antiques, China, Democracy - With Star Treck Under Tianaman Square? This is a journey of what if, that dos exist in many places, some of which we know, some not. This year more Chinese will use cellphones than in America. Where is the nerve center to monitor those calls, Tibet from grandma? Greek Antiques, Roman Warriors - Senior Aristotle Bush vs Junior Nero Bush There is such contrast between the wiser elder Bush, like a wise Greek philosopher with wise advisers, who had to undo the Reagan voodoo economics that his predecessor,and his son, have blundered into again. Egyptian Antiques, The Wiser Promised Land - If Moses Had Wandered West As the Jews were driven out of the lush lands of the Nile river delta, they headed north into the desert. If they had gone west, and then applied their genius, here indeed was a much more promising land with no enemies. Egyptian Antiques, What Would Archimedes Do With Fresh Water, Desert? In watching a television documentary of the desert of north Africa, is an insight into unknown lands with huge potential, and they may soon be part of Europe. Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Planet - 2009, The Year of the Healing The year 2008 will appear as a very weary old man passing the mantle over to a rather hesitant young 2009, who may need a diaper change when he reviews the financial books and watches the news. After that, the clean up begins. American Antiques, Democracy - Thoreau, After Patton American history has been one of the great stories of the growth of democratic values in the world. A new free people create a new free nation for all. Well, all white men, but now all.Why bomb others? Diamonds, Gemstones,Gold; A Mountain Of It - Only Irish Need Apply A mountain of diamonds, gemstones, gold, silver in such abundance found by an American of Irish descent had him require thousands of workers: my ancestors were of those who applied when his ad in the east read Only Irish Need Apply. Apply at the top of the mountain at Butte, Montana. Healthy Lifestyles, Science - How Two Horse's Rumps Design American Rocket Systems The strange, yet true story of how railway gauge tracks in America were designed by the same English who had to fit their carriage tracks into the spaces ground into the rock of ancient Roman roads through Britain by chariots two horses wide. Roman Antiques, Teutonic Knights, Charlemagne, Wenceslas, Ataturk- New Europeans The coming together of so many new nations to create a greater, or Metro Europe just keeps surprising us. Now a Europe from the Arctic to north Africa and West Asia is the talk of the halls in Brussels. What are they putting in their lunchtime brownies? We think the idea is great, the wider Europe. Greek Antiques, Alexander, Hannibal, Attila and Ataturk Are New Europe ! The Europe coming may include the African side and the Asian side as well as now most of the European side of the Greek and later Roman Empires, if E.U. delegates have their way. As well it has all the Germanic and Hun bits up to the Arctic, and Celtic Ireland and Scotland, who with the Germans had been beyond the pale. That is, too feisty. Greek Antiques, Olympic Freedom Torch - Left Athens For Tibet Today Television shows us Chinese police hit with clubs men in saffron robes in their holy city. Then, we see in Athens an Athenian woman hold the torch in a circle of five, and hand it to an Athenian dressed Chinese woman. Roman Aniques, Modern Europe - Sahara to Sweden The opening of talks between east and west Europe now seems to open to north Africa and west Asia. Here we look at Roman spas in the Sahara. A Swede might one day winter here with out need of a passport. Roman Antiques, Modern Europe - Who Are The Sting Rays In The Boat? Some visionaries see a wider Europe that combines the old Roman Empire around the sea with the Germanics and Baltics to the Pole, and the Slavs to the east and Moors from Morocco to Turkey. Do we see any problems? Alas yes. American Antiques, Power, Wealth, Vision - How NAFTA Helps More Than It Hurts The vibrancy of trade agreements between nations shows that some are hurt, most are helped much more, and the nation thrives. NAFTA has enriched America, Canada and Mexico, even as we each struggle with low cost China. American Antiques, Ronald Reagan, Technocracy - No More Depression with NAFTA A young lad named Reagan, brought up in the horrible depression was influenced as were many that if only North America became as one it would be as mighty and self sustaining as Russia, to the benefit of America and all. American Antiques, Reagan, NAFTA, - The Bigger The Better There has been honest worry in the election debates about whether the North American Free Trade Agreement has been good overall, for all three partners. The books say yes, but all feel pain of factory jobs to China. Even Mexico. Chinese Antiques, Napoleon - Let the Dragon Sleep. Who Listened? Even mighty Napoleon, who got to the Pyramids of Egypt and to the burning ruins of Moscow, at his greatest said of China it was a sleeping dragon and best to let it sleep. Greek Antiques, New Europeans - Hannibal, Cleopatra, Ataturk This amazing group from Greek antiques times and later leaders of their lands could now meet in peace as their ancestors evolve so all may join in that early European model of democracy in Greece. Wow, how we evolve. Greek Antiques - Athens was Venus, Rome was Mars Life in Athens was a struggle from day 500 B.C.E. and seems to stayed that way throughout the history of Greece. Beset by much more powerful Persia from the East for hundreds of years, these democratic pioneers fought until they were finally overcome from Rome in the west. So much for democratic ideals for centuries on earth. Roman Antiques, Archimedes - Hero of Rome, Killed by Rome The expanding Roman Empire needed to have Sicily and the refined ancient city state of Syracuse in their fold. And also that great genius Archimedes. Alas, they killed their hero. American Antique Shop Idols - Abraham Lincoln Became Uncle Sam It is the face and eyes and firm resolve of Abraham Lincoln that looks our at you as Uncle Sam, and that is how the Civil War created a hero who stood for one America, all free under God. Maps, Charts - How The USS Abraham Lincoln is In Canada Globes and maps and charts in the early stages of America were unknown by the other sides: French in the north and west, British in the middle coast, Spanish to the south. Who knew where the Mississippi began? Roman Antiques, Renewal - Charlemagne Created Modern Europe Centuries after Rome was a dusty city of decaying ruins, a French German warrior created much of the modern Europe which he intended to be Christian, educated, refined and forward looking. A thousand years later, he would be proud. Roman Antiques in Africa, West Asia Show The Way to Metro Europe Europe began as an early civilization in Greece, and was soon absorbed and copied by the Roman Empire, which created a Roman sea and their civilization and roads up to Gaul and Germania and all over Britannia. All roads led to Rome. That may on again. Roman Antiques, Charlemagne's Dream - One Mighty Europe On It's Way Recent discussions about the continued far range plans for the expansion of the trade and civilization zone of a wider Europe amaze the most far sighted. This plan is to unite the old Roman Empire including north Africa. Roman antiques - The Empire Strikes Back The Roman Empire created a vast area of Europe, north Africa and west Asia. The Germanic peoples were always outside the pale: in north Britannia a wall had to be built to keep these barbarians back. Not any more. Healthy Lifestyles, Happiness- Socrates, Reviled Alive, Revered Ever After Socrates caused great consternation among the ruling class when their children who had studied with Socrates would question an unreasonable command from an elder. He was finally presented with his reward, that cup of hemlock. But those fingers who had pointed were soon hounded out of Athens in shame. Diamonds, Gemstones, Cleopatra - How Her Extravegance Was the Death of Caesar Cleopatra was first unrolled out of those rich carpets brought off her golden barge at the Alexandria wharfs. Julius Caesar, by then old and battle scarred, was enchanted. Roman Antiques - Cleopatra, Mark Antony Created Augustus Caesar and the Empire Until Julius Caesar, Rome had been a Republic governed by the free votes of the Senate. Julius upset that and died; Mark Antony was send to Egypt. He was to negotiate and overtake Egypt, not wed Cleopatra and turn against Rome. Greek Antiques, Ideals - How Liberal Democracy Is Embracing The World Other than Moscow,and at times Beijing, for now, the world wants in to the club of liberal democracy and riches of free markets with smaller, not higher, borders. Diamonds, Holy Roman Antiques - Charlemagne, Good King Wenceslas, Modern Europe While a diamond of an idea,it was a perilous time to become a convert to Christian beliefs, as Charlemagne did. So did young king to be, Prince Wenceslas of Bohemia, whose adored Christian grand mother St. Ludmila was strangled by his pagan mother Drahomira. Tribal Jewelry, President Jefferson, a Mountain Man, an Indian Princess Create Sea to Sea America To some of the bewigged gentlemen in the Cabinet Room of the new White House,President Thomas Jefferson, accepted as a genius and visionary by the world, perhaps his vision of an America from sea to sea was a noble ideal. Antique History Books - Democracy Goes East As the world embraces wealth creating free markets over state control, and Net Auctions inspire free low bids, many people are much more free to access the best markets in the world. Antique History Books Secrets - Benjamin Franklin Brought Oats to America History books tell many well known facts. But not so well known was that it took a hint by Ben in England to leave for home with oats that did not yet grow in America. When you buy the oats that is why it is his smile on the package. Antique History, Democracy - Slow Boat To China Ancient Greece was that brilliant first burst of democracy. Men could be free to speak their minds. And young America emerged seeing the democracy of Greek as superior to the Caesar of Rome, as exists in China today. But how you going to keep them back in the yurt, once they have seen Shanghai? Or Athens?