I was at the Obama Inauguration. I wrote the below as series of postings elsewhere, to pour out my firsthand observations so that I wouldn't forget them. (If anyone reads this, I apologize in advance for it being perhaps meandering and long; again it was simply the pouring out of raw observations). I was at the inauguration today [20th January 2009], standing several hundred yards behind the second "Jumbotron" monitor from the Capitol. Since the poorly-run local heavy-rail ...
I know this has no affiliation with Europe, but I just find the similarities between these two countries to be fascinating! And plus, I'm an Asian just like Iraqis and Sri Lankans. Well here are 11 similarities between Iraq and Sri Lanka 1. Iraq and Sri Lanka are both war-torn Asian countries with Indian ocean coasts 2. Iraq and Sri Lanka have India latitudes (Iraq-N. India and Sri Lanka-S. India) 3. Both ...
Updated 05-25-2013 at 07:30 PM by Newsboy
IRELAND: There is nothing in the historical or archaeological record that would suggest that Ireland experienced any influx of people during the La Tene expansion. The few La Tene artifacts all appear to be locally made and there is nothing else in the record that would point to anything other than an indigenous population who adopted some of the La Tene cultural “package”, adapting it to fit within their own cultural framework (e.g., Raftery, 1991). In the McEvoy et al. (2004) genetic ...
What Has Become of the Classic Greek Nose? I've wondered this myself, no one alive today seems to have the classic "Greek nose," where the forehead and nose form a straight line.
Hahn identified what he called the ‘Six Declines of Modern Youth’ and the ‘Four Antidotes to the Declines of Modern Youth’. These were: The Six Declines of Modern Youth: Decline of Fitness due to modern methods of locomotion (moving about);Decline of Initiative and Enterprise due to the widespread disease of ‘spectatoritis’;Decline of Memory and Imagination due to the confused restlessness of modern life;Decline of Skill and Care due to the weakened ...
Updated 08-29-2020 at 06:02 PM by Tannhauser
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