You've taken your first step into a larger world. 🙂

I don't know why this is supposed to be new information.  I first heard this theory about 15 years ago.  It actually makes sense if you think about it.  Slaves were generally used for scut work and the skill required to build the pyramids was anything but scut work.  The fact that they are still standing after so many years shows that skilled craftsment built them.

I hate to use the Bible as evidence here, but in this case it's very appropriate.  Joshua was a stone cutter, a skilled tradesman, and Joshua was a slave.  With undertakings this large, it would be very difficult not to train some slaves to be skilled artisans simply for manpower reasons alone.

Napoleon without a doubt.

Wellington, when asked who was the greatest general of the day, answered: In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon.

Of course he would say that.  If Napoleon wasn't that good, Wellington's defeat of him would not have been so impressive no?  By saying that, Wellington implies he must be pretty great himself for defeating him.

Pre-history is History, but historians aren't equipped to research it.  Anthropologists and Archaeologists are trained to uncover and study artifacts that remain as the unwritten legacy of pre-historical civilizations.  After they make the discoveries and classify what they have discovered, historians take up the case integrating their findings into the known historical record.  Let me be perfectly clear to those who know my prejudices here, historians need to stay out of the way of the “scientists” while they do their work, and once they've completed their end, they should return the favor to the historian afterward.  Bashing the prejudicial historian in 3 2 1…..:)

I was reading the AP Article about the Haitian earthquake (Thousands feared dead in Haiti quake; many trapped)this morning and one line struck me as being completely ridiculous.  This struck me as being one of the most asinine statements I have read in a news article in a long while:

Dead bodies piled on the streets typically don't pose a public health risk

Can anybody corroborate this?  I learned in biology class and in several army classes that unburied bodies in mass casualty/catastrophe situations are one of the biggest health risks there are because they are breeding grounds for whatever disease the dead person had being spread through flies and such, not to mention the risk of them contaminating water supplies.  Common sense would tell you that piles of bodies laying around pose a health risk.My Respectometer for the AP just went down another notch, it is goind to start going Subterranean if they keep up their stellar reporting.

The major concerns are when it rains afterward which allow bacteria like dysentery to explode.  More will die of thirst, disease, and starvation than from the earthquake itself because of the denial of basic needs now that there is virtually no infrastructure left in Haiti.

He did very well as Leonidas.