The power in this story is that this happened 230 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 i

Knowledge is power. Presently the voters have taken an active role in choosing our next president. A leading factor is if the candidate can bring out change. Voters will benefit greatly by understanding the powers of the presidency. The most familiar power of the president is the president's power as Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces

Panama has maintained good relations with power houses and international bodies in a bid to ensure trade and business. Ties with the United States of America have helped in developing economic, social, and political and security matters. In these days, many Panamanians go to the US for higher education and for other training courses. Similarly, man

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

Bahraini liberals have responded to the growing power of religious parties by organizing themselves to campaign through civil society in order to defend basic personal freedoms from being legislated away. Bahrain is a generally flat and arid archipelago, consisting of a low desert plain rising gently to a low central escarpment, in the Persian Gul

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

American antiques history, and since time began, show wise or foolish acts by leaders, and how the effects of actions or decisions made in haste, can cost lives unforeseen. As with King George who listened to none but the birds in his head, or General George who just had to down down into that gulley. Or the incumbent George of the world, who has c

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

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 Ch

Wow, what a week in the news; Eliot Spitzer, Geraldine Ferraro, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, and gas prices jumping to record highs. What impact do these people and events have upon the housing market? Plenty. Experts were surprised this week to learn that the predicted increase in retail sales in February never materialized as retail sales fell

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

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

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 h

What a day of irony on the international news from London! From the hopes of Greek antiques democracy, the torch being lit in Olympus near Athens, to views of Chinese police in Tibet walking the streets, running at and hitting to the ground any saffron robed young man. And then just now to election which have today concluded in Bhutan, the mountain

The cartoons of American antiques and historical characters come at us daily. We laugh at the slow witted, yet very violent Elmer Fudd, very quick to shoot many times in a volley of violence. Which somehow some times reminds us of that actual modern day incarnation of President Fudd, our real time chap so trigger happy, the second and lesser Pre