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History ArticlesJun 21st 2008
Oscar Arias is the current president of the country of Costa Rica He first assumed office on May and is currently serving his second term He had first been elected president on May and served until May For more information on Costa Rica check out ToucanEstate President Arias is best known as one of the driving figures behind the end of the Central American civil wars during the s For his efforts Oscar Arias Sanchez...read more Jun 12th 2008
For centuries the printed word has been able to sway people one way or another in many cases all because of what they read When there is a headline printed people pay attention They usually automatically assume that if it makes the front page of the newspaper that it must be true In the majority of cases it will be at least partially correct Newspaper print especially can create a stir by whatever is printed...read more Jun 10th 2008
Greek Fire also known as Byzantine Fire Greek Byzantine Fire and Sea Fire was a terrifying naval weapon mastered by the Greeks and the Byzantines during early Medieval times This may be the earliest form of naval napalm and allowed their ships to fight with fire with some claims that there was so much fire that it seemed like they could light the water itself The Byzantines usually used it in naval battles to great...read more May 26th 2008
There were no Catholics in our town before JFK If there were none of the kids in my gang knew about them It was rumored that they had a church in town somewhere behind the local A P but I never found it I was already in my teens before I saw my first real life Catholic He didn't look much different than me but my mother acted like I had spoken to the anti-Christ...read more May 17th 2008
Chinese antiques civilization evolved very separately from influences from the west until modern times and those were more of warships and gunboat diplomacy by the west to intrude itself into commerce of the Orient The west has much to feel shame about in it's treatment of China as does Japan and for which China never ceases to remind all guilty parties This has become such an ingrained self defence mechanism that China continues to use...read more May 17th 2008
Chinese antiques have delicacy and intricacy that can amaze and delight To view such pieces is to deeply appreciate that such an ancient civilization was creating such intricacy when most of the world including Europeans lived in caves and trees is to appreciate the rich depth of the Inner Kingdom And yet as the present leaders remind us this great civilization did not involve democracy and they see no need to have it intrude into...read more May 13th 2008
Japanese antiques follow the pattern of their mother China in that as peoples poured out of Africa some million years ago they took on various characteristics whether the golden peoples of the east who also poured over into the America's and became brown or the Indo European groups that spread west into Europe becoming lighter skin and blue eyes as their more northern lives now required more sun absorbtion In original humanity Africa equitorial peoples...read more Apr 8th 2008
It will take some brilliant thinking a collection of diamond minds to ever hope to bring us back to blue skies nothing but blue skies all day long We enjoyed that in our happy days youth before all the modern progress Then it seems we matured away from the massive amounts of humanity that traveled by train up into the era Never since has America or the world had more people on the move on...read more Apr 4th 2008
Diamond minds comes to us rarely and to enjoy any quality lifestyles were a challenge during the lifetime of Leonardo da Vinci - Events that unfolded during these years created general boundaries for the modern world new and old By then a fellow citizen of what would become Italy had opened up a new world while Leonardo was some times forced to move to Avignon in France while armies of Florence fought off Venice who...read more Apr 4th 2008
Compte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade - better known as the Marquis de Sade was a famous French atheist and writer He spent years of his adult life in the prisons and insane asylums of the French monarchy the French Republic the revolutionary terror and Napoleonic Imperial France In short his sexual perversion and cruelty was restrained by every form of French government of his time He was openly atheist in his belief and unrestrained...read more Mar 30th 2008
Healthy lifestyles have been on the news today First we saw a video of a day in the newly created city of ten million people people on the Pearl River delta near Hong Kong in China We see a before photo of a quiet rice farming valley and then as it is now a valley of high tower buildings with a massive harbor apparently with that vast harbor in Japan now largest harbor in the...read more Mar 30th 2008
The power in this story is that this happened years before the birth of Christ and Christianity and that many more years before before the birth of Mohammed and Islam But it was within the time that we knew disciples or followers of Buddha had arrived this far west and had certainly reached Egypt to Greece as Aristotle to Alexander and it trickles down to us But who was this holy man at an oasis...read more Mar 28th 2008
So here you are in a Greek antiques shop far north of Athens but still in Greece in Macedonia You Hold two figurines one of a Greek Amazon Female Warrior the other a model of an princess from Persia You wonder what these two have in common so you ask the shop keeper It is a quiet moment so he sits you down and makes you a cup of tea and tells you his story...read more Mar 28th 2008
Greek and Chinese antiques history has both had a wise and kind or arrogantly powerful leadership However unlike Greece China has always been imperial Emperor or Chairman all rules come from within the walls of the forbidden city and must be obeyed or shame pain and death will follow you and your family into the grave Socrates drank his cup of hemlock for saying too much truth but the people of Athens disgusted punished those...read more Mar 28th 2008
Greek Antiques heroes like later American heroes have always been of a sort who were more a Jefferson or a Lincoln in mind and soul They seemed to rise to the occasions of most dire need for their times and speak their truth so clear and clean and pure that all could remember and also bring into their own heart and rise in their own souls and be and feel the better for it Tom...read more |
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