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I think non-American actors can play American figures quite well. It's sometimes the most impressive when I've seen a convincing role of an American character, only to find out later the actor who played him is British or Irish. I think good acting is good acting regardless.
I haven't read the Koran, but I have heard such references to it. Religion has believers who will stop at nothing – even death – to follow its commands. This is why the religious man can be the best citizen of the world….or the most dangerous.
Wow that looks nice with the fall leaves in the picture. I guess his family is buried with him as the latest death date is 1995.
What would todays world be like without Rome?
I think some historical "what if?" questions are not really plausible. One cannot really ask what the world would be like because a) Rome held onto its power for some 1100+ years and b) it had such a fundamental influence on Western Civilization. We really don't have anything to compare it to and we don't know if some alternative civilization would have risen to Rome's extent and assumed its leadership role in politics, military, the arts, and other areas. In other words, any answer we could give would be mere imagination with little evidence to rely on.
Here's my list: Einstein,Edison,Marx,Hitler,Jefferson,Columbus,Reagan,Bill Gates,Michael Jordan, and Jonas Salk
Wow - Gates before Gutenberg. The PC over print. Microsoft over moveable type. Redmond over the Rhine. XP over text....
There's a list of some people here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_millenniumHere are my top ten influential persons:HitlerNapoleonStalinSt. Thomas AquinasGutenbergWilliam the ConquerorMartin LutherGenghis KahnCharles V of SpainGeorge Washington
In the past I have thought that people in previous ages must have been very intelligent. I read through the school curriculum of some 18th Century figure (such as Emmerson or Thoreau) and I was amazed at how much they had to study back then.
Indeed – I noticed that my king was in danger (almost too late) and had it gone unnoticed for another move or two you could have put me in an easy checkmate. Your pawn development was pretty good and it threw a wrench into my hopes for easy domination.
Thanks – it was a grudge match. I think we began December 22 and it only ended today, December 31. I unwillingly let you get back into the game and I still do not remember when I lost my bishop. One moment I had it, another I didn't have it. So at least we were at equal strength going into the end. I saw an opportunity to stretch the board and have my queen put you in check. It was not an easy game.
Sounds like something a modern academic would think up. Notice how he tries to refute the view that early authors didn't claim Homer was a woman by saying we don't have an actual eyewitness account of Homer's gender. I don't see why one of these early authors couldn't have based this gender assignment on an earlier text which was based on evidence of Homer's true agenda (i.e. evidence that has since been lost). It seems we see repeating scenarios like the following these days - where some scholar:a) takes an historical belief thought to be well-established or an assumed fact,b) asserts something rather novel or even radical to change this belief, andc) what is asserted has influences on modern socio-political thoughtThis may or may not be the case with the Homer assertion, but it seems to share some this phenomena I'm pointing to. We should therefore consider it with a cautious mind.
The Atari joysticks had a single button, and the black plastic on the joystick itself woudl eventually fall off….ah, those were the days!
Look at this. I am still looking for information linking Hitler with Islam as I have heard it before.http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&Article_id=13511
I think you have to have the same kind of courage now as you did then, as you know you could be killed at any moment. However, back then you had to have had a view which accepted the stupidity of sending waves of troops to their deaths in efforts to overwhelm the opposition with numbers.
I should bring up the point that England, too, lost many of her colonies eventually. Just as Latin American independence was gained, so too was the independence of the American colonies and the loss of other colonies that Britain had established. At one point under Charles II Spain had one of the most vast empires the world had ever seen. If there's something I think history teaches us, it's that territories are morphic.
