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 ey

Kathy Cox appeared on the Fox TV show, "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" and failed to prove that she is smarter than a fifth grader, despite being the first contestant to take home the one million dollar top prize. Technically, she only proved that she is as smart as a fifth grader, since she answered no questions above that grade level. B

This election period, the voters know and want to know much more about the presidency and whether that candidate can actually make changes. Voters will benefit greatly by understanding the powers of the presidency. During the Bush administration most citizens have become familiar with the president's power of Executive Privilege, which is th

We print pictures of George Washington on our money, we hang his picture in our state and federal buildings, and throughout our school systems we teach the history of George Washington.

This is perhaps the most bizarre Republican Primary Election that I've ever witnessed. As a matter of fact, the entire GOP looks like it is going over the edge. In my mind, it is an unholy alliance that my party has wrapped its arms around the most Liberal of all our Candidates to run for President of the United States. Yet as we've all witnessed i

With the race for the President's post heating up, the question on everybody's mind is "Who will be the next President of the United States?" And this is not merely a question that remains limited to the minds of its citizens. The size of the United States of America, in terms of both geography and economy, as well as the power it wields over the i

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 goldsmi

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,

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

While Obama, Clinton, and McCain tell their flag-waving supporters about what a wonderful country we have and they all sing out "God Bless America", these politicians know, if the others don't, that at that very moment evil is taking place in Guantanamo Prison and in a half dozen other prisons as it did in Abu Ghraib.

Oscar Arias is the current president of the country of Costa Rica. He first assumed office on May 8, 2006 and is currently serving his second term. He had first been elected president on May 8, 1986 and served until May 8, 1990. For more information on Costa Rica, check out ToucanEstate. President Arias is best known as one of the driving figure

The latest race for the President of the United State has already been a long one and it is not nearly over yet. It seems so long ago when the candidates announced they would be running and in the beginning there were so many of them this time around. There were so many that it was really baffling when a person began to consider who they thought mi

World audit in their 17th Democracy Audit of the Millennium announce that: out of 150 countries audited, (all those with a million or more population); The opportunity to cast a vote can be quite meaningless unless there are transparently honest elections, with genuine voter choice of parties and people. We are confident that all of those countr

Who's turning the clock back? Is it the traditionalists who long for the 1950s or is it progressives who want to turn the clock back all the way to the pagan societies of ancient Greece and Rome? America has always been a liberal progressive society. (I use the word "liberal" in the classic sense of its meaning.) Americans have a moral impulse

For generations, many people from around the globe have held onto the dream of being able to emigrate from their native country and becoming a United States immigrant. There are many steps in the process to make such a dream a reality and passing the US citizenship test is one of the crucial steps. According to US immigration law, an immigrant