Roman Antiques in Africa, West Asia Show The Way to Metro Europe

We all came out of Africa, and we fanned out in different directions, taking on character features such as lighter skin for more sun the further north, and somehow golden features in the middle east, which later ran over into the Americas. North in Egypt, and across north Africa people became a lighter Arabic skin than those blacks south in the full sun of the tropics. By Greece and Rome we had lighter skinned people again, and blue eyes to better absorb the winter sun. These tendencies continued... Read more »

Maps, Charts - How The USS Abraham Lincoln is In Canada

As we read and study the maps and words and decisions in American history, unique around the globe, we note that the decisive victory for America happened so unexpectedly at the Conference shop talks after the final victory by General Washington and his men over General Cornwallis. American delegates were really only asking for their free rights for the coastal colonies they occupied. The extending the map of America west, adding all those lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains was more... Read more »

Roman Antiques, Archimedes - Hero of Rome, Killed by Rome

Roman antiques history tell us how Archimedes was the original absent minded professor. I was first he who ran naked through the streets shouting Eureka, I have found it. And he had indeed found a complicated mathematical solution giving an answer to the question put to him and other scholars by the King of Syracuse: how to prove if the goldsmith had added any impurities to what was to be solid gold in his crown. Syracuse and southern Italy have Greek columns, but since the time Archimedes this... Read more »

Roman Antiques - Cleopatra, Mark Antony Created Augustus Caesar and the Empire

When Julius Caesar, and later Mark Antony first met Cleopatra she saw to it they were both in turn dazzled and enchanted. Her golden barge would pull up at the wharf at Alexandria; the mighty Roman would be brought aboard to more splendor than he could ever have imagined. Cleopatra was dazzling with jewels, diamonds, necklace of intricate gold, and a feast of foods not known in Rome. She won both hearts of Caesar, and then Mark Antony with her opulence and grandeur. She was like no queen or mortal... Read more »

Healthy Lifestyles, Happiness- Socrates, Reviled Alive, Revered Ever After

Socrates in his youth was a fit warrior, but wounds of wars made him in old age an ugly old man. Socrates was retired with a small pension when he could no longer fight, and would walk in rags through the streets of Athens in his later years. But in his youth, during the height of the Golden Age of Greece, Socrates had performed with great bravery at three great battles against the ever looming armies and navies of Persia. As Socrates aged, he limped and was infirm; no longer fit for military defense... Read more »

The Great Pyramid: mighty oracle set in stone

There lies buried beneath countless layers of Egyptian antiquity a lost legend. A legend so powerful, that even the slightest embrace of its meaning opens inner pathways into the far reaches of time and space. The legend is of old from the period of human beginnings. Historians, such as Josephus, seemed to hint at and even point towards its location, but myths arose and clouded the matter. As a result the mortals wandered about, blinded by the sand storms of time. Millennium came and went,... Read more »

Panama and Its Fascinating History

The history of Panama dates back to almost 11,000 years before Christopher Columbus discovered Panama. Before the sixteenth century it was the time of the indigenous people in Panama. These people were rich in heritage and secluded from the developing world. The flute projectile points are one of the oldest proofs of their existence in Panama. The antique potteries and artifacts excavated and collected from Panama date back to 2500-1700 BC. Cueva were the largest group of people settled in the... Read more »

The Story of The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal is a vital place for ships to pass through Panama. It connects the Atlantic with the Pacific Oceans and turned down the long and risky route via Drake Passage and Cape Horn and gave birth to new shipping route. Moreover, it made traveling easy between Spain and Peru. In 1880, French took the decision to make the Canal which was failed when a huge number of workers died in the construction process. The creation of the canal in Panama was beset by problems like disease and landslides.... Read more »

Tribal Jewelry, President Jefferson, a Mountain Man, an Indian Princess Create Sea to Sea America

Tribal body jewelry was given out as gifts on the way to the Pacific, although it was not liked discussed among some of the bewigged gentlemen in the Cabinet Room of the new White House. To some of them, President Thomas Jefferson, accepted as a genius and visionary by the world, although perhaps his vision of an America from sea to sea was a noble but rather far fetched idea. So Jefferson was wise to employ these two mountain men from the west, a Mr. Lewis, who began to create his team with a Mr.... Read more »

Antique History, Democracy - Slow Boat To China

Ancient Greece lifted the souls of men of imagination and thoughts they had wanted to express for ages. But in ancient Egypt there was no time for that; all rules and thoughts of any worth were by decree by the reigning Pharaoh of Egypt. Greece was a land that, like Rome next door did have a winter when the people could not grow crops and had to be able to survive an occasional winter blast unknown in fortunate Egypt.For many months each year in Athens or Rome the weather would not allow crops to... Read more »