Greek Antiques, Alexander, Hannibal, Attila and Ataturk Are New Europe !

Greek ancient democracy grew into old Europe, the tight cluster who began all this forging a United States of Europe did this at the insistence of America after 1945. Germany and France had bankrupted each other several times in the past century,, time to stop this red ant and black ant madness. Even so, it was the core small Benelux three who first frightened Germans and French when they took down border patrols between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. For quiet long months the world watched... Read more »

American Antiques, Democracy - Thoreau, After Patton

The words of that great classic American antiques shop hero Henry David Thoreau are underlined deeply in my university English text under many words of Thoreau. Thoreau first appeared to me, and many, just as the war in Vietnam was heating up, and to be on a university campus was to experience many new events during that era. From 1960 and the hope of President Kennedy, through his 1963 death, and all our despair as new President Johnson from Texas with almost no foreign policy experience began... Read more »

Egyptian Antiques, The Wiser Promised Land - If Moses Had Wandered West

The great irony of Egyptian antiques history and how the Jews fled north and under Moses, wander in the Sinai desert for forty years. As they moved north they found dry but arable land and this surely, after the desert, and the swords of Egypt, was the land of milk and honey. Their promised land. Which now many others dispute, and many European descendants of Moses seem as fully arrogant as they create homes and walls around lands occupied by others since they were sent away as troublesome terrorists... Read more »

American Antiques, Ronald Reagan, Technocracy - No More Depression with NAFTA

During time periods of American antiques and history, the Depression was a very difficult for anyone to try to survive. Such deep fears known then die as those who experienced that lost ten years die. And while the depression has long since faded, it was real as modern economics models show. As the fear of a depression spread, national borders began to close around the world. And economic models show how that began a sinking spiral of trade shrinking, then the economies, until a shrinking inward... Read more »

American Antiques, Reagan, NAFTA, - The Bigger The Better

When I first heard that American antiques legend speak of a North America all together as one, while he stared down the U.S.S.R. and had only known a hostile Russia all his life. To Reagan and all who heard of the almost bible like sessions of Technocracy, who basically wanted a greater and stronger Christian America to fend off the depression and the threat of Russia and communism taking over the world, or at least this continent. And I smiled and realized that it was a wonderful old dream that... Read more »

American Antiques, Power, Wealth, Vision - How NAFTA Helps More Than It Hurts

In politics everywhere, even your favorite politician is forced into some mindless blather about some issue that the locals worry about. That has been happening in Ohio, where Democrats who know better reply that if that town had a factory moved to Mexico or Canada, we would put a stop to that. Just as there are politicians in Canada and Mexico saying in towns that have also lost factories. In fact, we all know those factories are leaving this free trade zone and now in China. So we think if there... Read more »

Roman Antiques, Modern Europe - Who Are The Sting Rays In The Boat?

Roman antiques history ruins are from Scotland to Morocco, over to Cairo, up past Damascus to Istanbul, or Byzentium back then, and through the swamps of Romania, named after a certain Empire, skipping past under most of those feisty Germanics, the Scots, even the Irish. You have to love the inspiring thought that evokes from one with Irish blood, that after conquering most of Britain, they sailed by the coast of Ireland many times. Each time, red haired painted skinned warriors came out of the... Read more »

Chinese Antiques, Napoleon - Let the Dragon Sleep. Who Listened?

Napoleon warned Europe that China was a sleeping dragon and it was wise to let her sleep. For if awakened, her roar would shake the earth. Did you feel that tremble? He spoke that at the height of his glory as he was winning at every battle he took on. But, what did Napoleon know? By 1844 the British had wrested control of Hong Kong in south China in a 99 year lease of a deep protected harbor. Here they began to secure their west Pacific naval base, while eight thousand miles to the east over the... Read more »

Greek Antiques - Athens was Venus, Rome was Mars

Our image of heroic Greek antiques and figures grew out of even more ancient histories of western civilizations. They evolved and grew out of the cultures of Asia around Mesopotamia and in north Africa with Egypt and the Black Pharaohs to their south, and first allowed free speech in the times of Greek antiques. Here there was little influence until the times of Marco Polo would any understanding of the Orient, or China come to the west. The ways of India were more known as the mountain ranges below... Read more »

Roman antiques - The Empire Strikes Back

How Roman antiques history can come and go in waves can fascinate and cause us to marvel. First major influences came out of west Asia and Egypt, then up the east side of the sea. This great sea became the focus of western civilization and Phoenician and Greek ships colonized the more western regions, Greeks in Italy and Spain. Phoenicians created Carthage. These mighty empires would rise and fall in their turn, and by the time Germans had sacked Rome, Rome had sacked Carthage, and all were at odds... Read more »