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American Antiques, Legacies - How Ben Franklin's Humor Was Almost The Death of Him The healing power of an unexpected laugh during a tense situation can relax you, your mates, your heart; and increases your social intelligence. American Antiques, Founding Values - Knocking on Heaven's Door American youth have been sent off to die in war by old men in suits, comfortable in Washington, once more. Time, gentlemen, once again to bring them home. American Antiques History - Inspiration, Dedication, Renewal American history shows that it took determined waves of people to settle and create the America of today, and while pressures mount, the beat goes on. American Antiques, Values, Virtues - A Norman Rockwell Renewal? American values bring to mind the historic feel of a Norman Rockwell painting of a loving group of extended family. And we need to extend that again. American Antiques Heroic Figures - Tom Sawyer to Now Not since the not quite fulfilled Tom and Huck era of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, has at least again one of those become America's hope for change. American Antiques, American Rebirth - Another Roosevelt Era Coming? Never since the era of the great depression have the American people seemed so ready to welcome a change from disastrous policies of conversatives in power. Rare Antiques Moments Live On - Peaks of Love, Depths of Despair English artist John Constable changed modern art and enjoyed great love amidst poverty. When his beloved wife died, leaving him 7 children, his art darkened. American Antiques - Roman Swords, Greek Heroes, How America Comes Back Every Time American history shows when violence and hatred boils over into war, here and abroad. Always, after, more needed is the healing soul of a Lincoln from us all. American Antiques Hero Legacies In Need Of Update - Big John! President John F. Kennedy, both warrior and peace maker, as leader of the free world, stared down The Evil Empire at Cuba. He also created the Peace Corps. Dolls, Figurines, Toys, Foods - Also Army Intelligence, Bravo! The recent images of returning American soldiers from Iraq war duty being given down time to deliver foods, toys and security in flooded villages is good for all. Dolls, Figurines, Pinatas - Cinco de Mayo, Aided By America's Good Army! The 5th of May is not Mexico's Independence Day, but rather a great victory over France with American help in 1862. It is a festival day in America and Mexico. Buy Chinese Antiques, Still Vitally Alive - Ignore New Dragon CO2 Bargains As Chinese antiques reached the west all were in awe of such exquisite works created in a pristine ancient world. Now, coal dust in our eyes, we buy their junk. Dolls and Figurines, Food Giving After War - Brilliance From The Military! How heart warming to see and hear American soldiers being diverted from Iraq to give food aid and child care in famine areas before coming home. Brilliant! Dolls, Figurines, Foods, Friendships, Healing - Military Intelligence! The smiling faces of American soldiers distribute food in central America on their way home from duty in Iraq is immensely wise therapy. Well done, US Military! Purchase Chinese Antiques, Bypass Modern Dragon Death Buys Chinese antiques, exquisite, delicate statements from long ago, in a civilized time. Yet daily China belches more noxious CO2 coal into the air that now reaches us, making cheapest goods we buy, need them or not. Chinese Antiques, China's Olympics - Less Athens, More Roman Circus? That China is a glorious civilization in no need of democracy is what we hear from their leaders today, as always. Why the Olympic Freedom Torch from Athens? Japanese Antiques, Modern Japan - Less Samurai, More Buddha The recent actions of Japanese against the Chinese Olympic torch run through Japan shows a nation closer to the civilized world; brave people shaming China. Chinese Antiques, China Today - Ancient Elegance, Now Brutal Bully The exquisite Chinese antiques of long ago were lovingly crafted into a Ming vase for a noble; today's coal factories belch out copies we all line up to buy. Buy Chinese Antiques Mings, Help Clean China's Coal Sky - Don't Buy Dragon Breath New To ever enjoy simple natural blue sky again, we need to refine some of our proud industrial progress. Coal to China needs filters as it now fouls air in North America, we are all now so connected. Chinese Antiques, Ming's, Delicate Things - While Wrecking Ball Swings Scenes of bulldozers and wrecking balls smashing over historic sites in China; the looting, loss of Chinese antiques is happening now, for cement factories. Buy Chinese Antiques, Ignore China's Olympics and Modern Products Chinese dignitaries defend their polluted air and smoke stacks that spew incredible volumes of unfiltered coal ash into the air; which we now breath on the west coast of America, fouling our lungs and plants. Such progress! Buy Chinese Antiques, Silks, Mings - Not Modern China, CO2 Coal Cancer Kings After Marco Polo, Mighty Khan swept his golden hordes west; their layers of silk were able to absorb, twist around our arrows, which they could twist back out,toss aside. Now it is their CO2, absorbing into our lungs. Diamonds , Carbon Divine - Or China's CO2 Coal Hell To Us, For the Rest of Time? Diamonds are so unique in their creation from carbon, which is in vast dirty supply worldwide, to rare spikes as from hell within the furnace of inner earth, or the lightning hand of God. Either way, a diamond is forever. Chinese Antiques, Filthy Modern China - Oliver's Deathly London? Chinese antiques are as delicate and intricate as any on earth, whether a Ming vase or miniature figure. Yet this land of such grace and elegance is at the moment rather like the hellish London in the Victorian era of Oliver. Tribal Jewelry, Rare Native Artifacts - Saving What Is Left Many tribal jewelry artifacts display ornate or simple versions of female or male figures, gods and mystical belief systems that tried, as do we all, to make sense of an often senseless world. Chinese Antiques, China Today - Dragon Breathe In Our Lungs Chinese celebrations always include many people under a paper dragon skin, all weaving, much fireworks and smoke. China is now mother earth's fire and CO2 smoke breathing dragon king. We all need to turn off the smoke machines. Chinese Antiques, Dirty Skies - Filters on Coal, Plant a Tree China is most polluted, yet doing much to clean while it dirties; we need a cleaner mother earth. Time for green;less acid rain, dirty coal burning, dying species and a future we fear. Each small step to the next, one baby tree at a time. Diamonds Make The World Go Round Diamonds are on everyone's mind when a construction site is at a standstill until the man with diamond drill saw gets through the obstacle. Sometimes it is that way with humans as well. Chinese Antiques, Blue Skies - Now World's Dirty CO2 Coal King Diamonds may be the touch of God, but their dirty carbon cousin coal reigns supreme in China, now the world's greatest polluter, announced today. Filthy air, batons on skulls, not an ideal Olympics atmosphere, cough, ouch. Chinese Antiques Brilliance, Coal Plants CO2 - Filters, or Hell on Earth An irony of carbon is how it can graduate from common dirty coal into diamonds from the inner fires of mother earth. Problem is, China's growth has too many carbon burning coal plants, none of whom have the new filters. Japanese Antiques - Samurai Swords, Delicate Grace The amazing contrast of Japan seems to be in the example of the sword and the silk curtain: fierce warfare outside, yet shoes off and quiet tea in the home in Buddhist bliss.Did he who made the lamb make thee? Diamonds That Sparkle - Investments to Grow New diamond finds in the hot deserts of Australia and the cold northern rocks of Canada have come just as new wealth in Asia creates increasing demands for riches from coal to diamonds. And they come in all shapes and forms. Diamonds from Coal - Sign of a Smile from God The irony of lightning is that through history as it can be seen, it became as bolts from an angry God. And yet from the hellish fires inside earth come occasional fiery bolts flash up to the surface through cracks between ancient rock and carbon to become diamonds. Diamonds - How Lumps of Coal Rise To Brilliance Diamonds are carbon and as such share their common elemental structure with coal. But some times the intense fire from inner earth that rises through earth to change seams of coal to diamonds is magic, or the touch of God. Diamonds, Science, Brilliance, Bliss - Happiness, Gratification, or Deeper? Examples of happiness as being deeper than self gratification can be seen in the lifestyles between more God loving democratic Greece with self centered Romans with horses as gods. Diamonds or Coal For Brains. Sir Walter Raleigh, Men of Old Ironsides. The Wiser Pirates? A story going the rounds is the log of the USS Constitution, old Ironsides, in pirate attacks on English ships and Scotch whiskey in 1798. Drunken pirates. Diamond Minds, Science, Logic - The Promised Land Is Still West Studies are being completed on the science of happiness. Those parts of the brain light up when joy is experienced, but it only happens in a serene environment. Diamonds, Godliness - Buddha, 3 Wise Men, Socrates, Aristotle. And Us? We follow the known lifetimes of that sources of the wise men from the east who were there at the birth of Jesus. they had been visiting the area for five hundred years. Diamond Minds, Global Warming: Cheap Fuel,Clean Water from Our Toilets? Many ways will be used to cool mother earth, we know. Also know this: toilets that convert potty to methane are lighting gas stoves in China. So what keeps us off that pot? Besides the pride. Always before the fall. Diamonds That Sparkle Within, Sparkle Throughout The story of diamonds is the search not only for that which sparkles most on a hand, wrist or a neck. But also those eyes and soul of diamonds is what draws you to her, and it bas been so since time began. Diamond Minds, Blue Skies - On the Train from New York to London, Don't Look Down An international magazine outlined a rail network that could virtually encircle the globe. It could cut those kerosine jet trails of pollution, with enough dirty coal plant shut downs, to allow us blue skies.In whose life time? Diamond Minds, Brilliant Vision - A Sparkling Future Could Be It will take more brilliant diamond like thinking than the present lump of coal mentality of an ostrich, head in the sand, that all is well, I see no evil. The coming smog will have us see no good, unless those diamond minds rise above the coal. Diamonds that Sparkle, One Metro Europe - Charlemagne, not Caesar We see further events unfolding daily about the concept of a wider Europe. Germany has told France it will be not a split empire. Ms Hans sounds like Patton: she and Frank do not get along. Diamond Mind, Diamond Soul - The Brilliant Humanity of Leonardo The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be. Diamonds That Sparkle - In Her Eyes, With You Diamonds that sparkle; we all know what that means. It is the amazement of creation to make a diamond from a raw lump of coal. And the diamonds in the eyes, and the souls of some more, we discuss diamonds, and lumps of coal. Roman Antiques to Now - German Hans Sacked Rome, China's Hans Sack Tibet It is an irony to consider that the Germanic chaps with the name of Hans would have destroyed a civilization in Rome. And now Chinese Hans destroy the Buddhist civilization of Tibet. All named Hans, stop, and go home. Greek Antiques, Democracies, China Today - More on Web than America - But Watch What You Say This is a rather limited victory, the fact just reported, that more Chinese will be on the web this year than Americans. But try to type in words such as Tibet.Will there be a knock at your door by a man with a club? Healthy Lifestyles, Happiness - Science Shows Eight Ways to Bliss We all know the good feeling we got as boy or girl scouts when we helped a little old lady across the street. Our cultural model has had us be trained to do a good deed every day, so by dinner time you might a frantic scout looking for a little old lady on a corner. Science now shows that that state of mind creates a long living, healthy, happy person, far above the average. Healthy Lifestyles, Cooperation - How To Energize the World For us many who grew up in an Anglo city, moved to a more racially diverse area, and since moved home and find our own city is eventually more racial diverse than we could have imagined before. It has energized my home area so much. Healthy Lifestyles, Napoleon In London - While Asia Ascends The world is changing daily. The two old empire building enemies, Britain and France are closer friends, while Asia ascends. The French President just had a sleep over at Windsor Castle. Each have common enemies, they see. Healthy Lifestyles, Global Warming - Industry Shift Changes Coming The lessons of history are clear. When your buggy whips are not good any more, remember you are in the transportation industry. Less planes, more trains, same companies. Healthy Lifestyles, Power, God, and Allah - A New Crescent of Peace? Alexander the Great was having his people create the greater new Athens at the mouth of the Nile. But his men worried that he wandered west for a holy man and almost died in the sand. They met at an oasis,blessed each other. Roman Antiques, Science - Archimedes, Rome Lives On In Scotland Youthful honor scholar Archimedes from Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily showed his genius in great Alexandria when he solved the problem of how to lift water up from the Nile to irrigate the fields. Killed on a beach back home as the Romans took over, his Archimedes screw, which is not unlike a ferris wheel, lives on anew at a canal in Scotland and makes use of a Roman tunnel nearby. Healthy Lifestyles, Alcohol - Just How Much, Anyway? The news that some dark beer and dark red wine were powerful in some cancer fighting abilities, lighter drinks and hard liquor are not in this health team. How much is safe? Thank goodness, science has that measure. Healthy Lifestyles, Surf, Turf, Fruit & Some Berries - Bliss Can Be Guided Living healthy lifestyles involves body, mind and soul. To eat fresh surf, fish from the river or the sea, and turf, dark greens from the fields, meditation with friends and family. A poor life can be a happy life. Greek Antiques, Amazon Women - Absorbed Into Vast Asia The amazing stories of Greek Amazon women warriors have always seemed as of legend. However, scientists have shown that there exists today golden haired blue eyed Mongol peoples with DNA matches to these Amazon women. They hold an amazing story of ancient survival against all odds. Healthy Lifestyles - Examples From Leonardo The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be. Greek Antiques, Democracy, Modern China - Brutal Panda In Tibet The recently released television actions by Chinese police seen beating fallen Tibetan monks in their sacred city makes the blood boil of millions of us around the world. Greek Antique Democracy, Modern Healing Power - A Lincoln Could Help Again The wisdom of Abraham Lincoln in contrast to the rather rash use of power and self interest to favor the rich and punish the poor of the incumbent: sharp contrast. This letter from Lincoln to Grant indicates how. Healthy Lifestyles, Cartoons, Elmer, Bugs - President Fudd, Bugs bin Ladin Is Not Here, Go Home! We think how that cartoon chap Elmer Fudd, wildly blasting away at Bugs Bunny talks of now. Every time he almost has that "wascelly bin wabbit" now, boom boom, he still needs a trillion more bullets, boom boom. Healthy Lifestyles, Global Kerosene From Airplanes - Time For Cleaner Super Train! Studies made clear, as were the skies of America, the three days after 9/11. There was no air traffic; the skies of America became blue. Then soon they were kerosine gray from that exhaust trail across the sky. Greek Antiques, Democracy , Open To All - Except Inside China's Bunker There is much irony of a protester from Tibet stealing the show, if only for a moment, while the man from China spoke about harmony and brotherhood. This spoke loudly, as did the criticism of China about poor security. Healthy Lifestyles - More Soul Of Aristotle, Less Sword Of Caesar Healthy lifestyles seem so unlikely for so many people in places that seem on fire: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, Darfur. The world is nearing a boil with the weather and the politics. Time to cool down. Diamonds, Gemstones, Gold Mountain - Chinese Antiques, Wealth Over East The gold fields, diamonds and gemstones of California first brought the Chinese during the 1848 Gold rush, and soon after they built the railway, they had laundry shops across America and Chinese restaurants at every whistle stop. New Americans, fed you, did your laundry. Greek Antiques, China, Democracy - With Star Treck Under Tianaman Square? This is a journey of what if, that dos exist in many places, some of which we know, some not. This year more Chinese will use cellphones than in America. Where is the nerve center to monitor those calls, Tibet from grandma? Greek Antiques, Roman Warriors - Senior Aristotle Bush vs Junior Nero Bush There is such contrast between the wiser elder Bush, like a wise Greek philosopher with wise advisers, who had to undo the Reagan voodoo economics that his predecessor,and his son, have blundered into again. Healthy Lifestyles, Wise Aging - No More Patents, but A Nobel Peace Prize Studies have looked at the lives of those most brilliant person who have created the greatest knowledge breakthroughs, with most important patents to advance humanity. It always happened in their youth. Healthy Lifestyles- Meditating Away a Bloody Accident At times some horrible accident happens that can haunt us, such a any incident that involves blood and death. This was one such case in my early teens that I learned to put to rest. Healthy Lifestyles, Power - Your Eyes Show It The most fight we have in us at any moment is to be seen in our eyes. If your group sense that you have it in you that we can yet win, they look for it in your eyes. If you have doubts, they begin to give up. Healthy Lifestyles, Life Itself - 2008 Not Great, 2009 More Benign? The news keeps seeming to bring more talk of recession, more never ending war, uncertain oil prices, a mid east ablaze, bin ladin still in the mountains. Could next year be better? Egyptian Antiques, The Wiser Promised Land - If Moses Had Wandered West As the Jews were driven out of the lush lands of the Nile river delta, they headed north into the desert. If they had gone west, and then applied their genius, here indeed was a much more promising land with no enemies. Healthy Lifestyles -The Best Power Fruits & Veggies In The World On our search for wisdom and healthy living, we have checked our lists so carefully, now we have the healthiest fruit and vegetables for the Queen's navy. And us. Study, mix and match, see what blends best. Egyptian Antiques, What Would Archimedes Do With Fresh Water, Desert? In watching a television documentary of the desert of north Africa, is an insight into unknown lands with huge potential, and they may soon be part of Europe. American Antiques, Democracy - Thoreau, After Patton American history has been one of the great stories of the growth of democratic values in the world. A new free people create a new free nation for all. Well, all white men, but now all.Why bomb others? Chinese Antiques, Confucian Respect - Best With Athenian Free Speech Chinese antique wisdom flows from Confucian respect for the Emperor, all serve He who could behead you at his whim or will. Thomas Jefferson has some vintage Greek vintage democracy that would go well over that. Diamonds, Gemstones,Gold; A Mountain Of It - Only Irish Need Apply A mountain of diamonds, gemstones, gold, silver in such abundance found by an American of Irish descent had him require thousands of workers: my ancestors were of those who applied when his ad in the east read Only Irish Need Apply. Apply at the top of the mountain at Butte, Montana. Healthy Lifestyles, Science - How Two Horse's Rumps Design American Rocket Systems The strange, yet true story of how railway gauge tracks in America were designed by the same English who had to fit their carriage tracks into the spaces ground into the rock of ancient Roman roads through Britain by chariots two horses wide. Roman Antiques, Teutonic Knights, Charlemagne, Wenceslas, Ataturk- New Europeans The coming together of so many new nations to create a greater, or Metro Europe just keeps surprising us. Now a Europe from the Arctic to north Africa and West Asia is the talk of the halls in Brussels. What are they putting in their lunchtime brownies? We think the idea is great, the wider Europe. Greek Antiques, Alexander, Hannibal, Attila and Ataturk Are New Europe ! The Europe coming may include the African side and the Asian side as well as now most of the European side of the Greek and later Roman Empires, if E.U. delegates have their way. As well it has all the Germanic and Hun bits up to the Arctic, and Celtic Ireland and Scotland, who with the Germans had been beyond the pale. That is, too feisty. Chinese Antiques, Modern China - The Children Show The Way An occasional glimpse of modern China can be enlightening. We do not see this on our local television but international news interviews with family life and with the children to school shows free young minds. Greek Warriors Taught the Basics to American Fighter Aces The most obvious battles between aircraft were during the Korean and Vietnam police war actions. Each time superior Soviet MIG fighter planes were shot down by superior trained pilots in less perfect jets. American Antiques, Heroics And Follies - President Custer, Stop! A summary of the life and death of George Custer can remind, yet contrast that curious George and his rash acts with that of the incumbent George and his. Which George has cost the most lives so far? Roman Aniques, Modern Europe - Sahara to Sweden The opening of talks between east and west Europe now seems to open to north Africa and west Asia. Here we look at Roman spas in the Sahara. A Swede might one day winter here with out need of a passport. Healthy Lifestyles - Think Like Leonardo The life of Leonardo da Vinci is a look inside a profound genius that can help us concentrate of issues that matter and how to bridge chasms, not enlarge them. That would be a pleasant change. Roman Antiques, Modern Europe - Who Are The Sting Rays In The Boat? Some visionaries see a wider Europe that combines the old Roman Empire around the sea with the Germanics and Baltics to the Pole, and the Slavs to the east and Moors from Morocco to Turkey. Do we see any problems? Alas yes. American Antiques, Power, Wealth, Vision - How NAFTA Helps More Than It Hurts The vibrancy of trade agreements between nations shows that some are hurt, most are helped much more, and the nation thrives. NAFTA has enriched America, Canada and Mexico, even as we each struggle with low cost China. American Antiques, Ronald Reagan, Technocracy - No More Depression with NAFTA A young lad named Reagan, brought up in the horrible depression was influenced as were many that if only North America became as one it would be as mighty and self sustaining as Russia, to the benefit of America and all. Healthy Lifestyes in Tibet - Unlikely, So Bravo, Nancy Pelosi The news shows the American political leader Nancy Pelosi in northern India, hand in hand with the Dahli Llahma of Tibet, after riots to protest their loss of freedoms. Healthy Lifestyles, Power - How It's Abuse Has Hurt America, The Only Way Out Abraham Lincoln said that every man can handle adversity, but to see the character of a man give him power. The incumbent vice president of America comes to mind. Healthy Lifestyles, Peace On Earth - How To Avoid Ralph Nader This Time The year 2008 has been a downhill roller coaster for most of America, and as we stay the course the deeper we sink. What may be needed, if the hole we keep digging is sinking us, is to fill the hole back in and build a fine new world atop the rubbish and folly. Egyptian Antiques History - Male Dominance From 4280 B C E By 4280 B.C.E. there had been a Queen Pharaoh of Egypt, but this did not please all. Her son, for example, had her face chiseled off all special monuments. Any Pharaoh of Egypt was to be male. Chinese Antiques, Napoleon - Let the Dragon Sleep. Who Listened? Even mighty Napoleon, who got to the Pyramids of Egypt and to the burning ruins of Moscow, at his greatest said of China it was a sleeping dragon and best to let it sleep. Antique Literature, Booms then Bust - What To Do From A Credit Manager The words to prop up the financial situation are on the television news right now. Our President assures us we are on top of the situation and all is on plan. Oh? Diamonds, Gemstones Go East, Silks,Spices Go West - 7,000 Years Of A Silk Route The Silk Route predates written history as we know it, and much of it would be more dangerous to travel by camel today than back then. But goods went east while silk would arrive and be made into Damask Silk in Damascus, at 7,000 years the oldest steadily inhabited city in the world. Greek Antiques, American Heroes - Alexander, Washington, to Patton Brave and wise acts can be undone by foolish acts of vanity over common sense, as was the case with General Custer. In contrast, Alexander and Washington held a sway over their men that saw them through to many a narrow victory. And then there was General Custer. Healthy Lifestyles, Science - Serene Harmony in Racial Diversity In quiet areas of earth there are peoples of many nationalities and language groups who are finding ways to live together. They have adapted to living amidst strange people, and if each respects the rights of the other they can get along. American Antiques, Abraham Lincoln - Inspiration to Battle Hymn of The Republic During the darkest moments of the Civil War, the ragged Union soldiers freshly from battle tried to put on a parade in Washington. Their song about John Brown and his body mouldering in the grave had a sound tune, but the words. Greek Antiques, New Europeans - Hannibal, Cleopatra, Ataturk This amazing group from Greek antiques times and later leaders of their lands could now meet in peace as their ancestors evolve so all may join in that early European model of democracy in Greece. Wow, how we evolve. Greek Antiques - Athens was Venus, Rome was Mars Life in Athens was a struggle from day 500 B.C.E. and seems to stayed that way throughout the history of Greece. Beset by much more powerful Persia from the East for hundreds of years, these democratic pioneers fought until they were finally overcome from Rome in the west. So much for democratic ideals for centuries on earth. Healthy Lifestyles - Winston Churchill, A Bog, And Penicillin This amazing and true story tells of how a small good act can send out waves of goodwill that change some lives twice. Winston Churchill, for example.
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