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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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. Healthy Lifestyles, Global Warming - Industry Shift Changes Coming The lessons of history are clear. When your buggy whips are not good any more, remember you are in the transportation industry. Less planes, more trains, same companies. Healthy Lifestyles, Cartoons, Elmer, Bugs - President Fudd, Bugs bin Ladin Is Not Here, Go Home! We think how that cartoon chap Elmer Fudd, wildly blasting away at Bugs Bunny talks of now. Every time he almost has that "wascelly bin wabbit" now, boom boom, he still needs a trillion more bullets, boom boom. Healthy Lifestyles, Global Kerosene From Airplanes - Time For Cleaner Super Train! Studies made clear, as were the skies of America, the three days after 9/11. There was no air traffic; the skies of America became blue. Then soon they were kerosine gray from that exhaust trail across the sky. Healthy Lifestyles, Wise Aging - No More Patents, but A Nobel Peace Prize Studies have looked at the lives of those most brilliant person who have created the greatest knowledge breakthroughs, with most important patents to advance humanity. It always happened in their youth. Healthy Lifestyles, Life Itself - 2008 Not Great, 2009 More Benign? The news keeps seeming to bring more talk of recession, more never ending war, uncertain oil prices, a mid east ablaze, bin ladin still in the mountains. Could next year be better? Antique History, American Thoreau - Inspired Gandhi How to Free India British rule over India brought order and justice. But it was Roosevelt and America who brought democracy to India. After all, what was this war all about? India was independent by 1947.But it took a Gandhi who had read the words of protest of American Thoreau.