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Here is the message I received from my host today:
Hello,We have had some abusers, that we have been delaing with moving off the server, this will be fully resolved by the end of the week.
The link's right here. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11111366/Interesting where it discusses the following:
That means African slaves were given Christian burials on hallowed ground within the city walls but separate from the Spaniards. Such practices contrasted sharply with the way slaves were treated on plantations farther north, he said.
Am I incorrect in my thinking that later on in the South, slaves were not allowed to partake in Christian services? Or at the very least, would slaves in the American South have been given Christian burials?
I knew it was Harding, Ford, Edison, and Firestone, but I thought that if I answered Donnie might feel like he was shown-up and feel bad and so I refrained from answering.Ok ok, so I didn't know who they were. I didn't even see the post in the first place, but if I had, I still would have had no idea.
Thanks…I'm glad you like them. They're not up for all the boards right now and some may change as I see what works and what doesn't, but they should eventually all be complete.
Thanks for that synopsis. You mention that Miles Standish trained them before they went on their trip. He might be an interesting figure to study. After they arrived in America they began to get sick and die off in high numbers. I believe of the 100+ that went on the trip, around half died before they got through the first winter. I think they noted, however, that Miles Standish was one of two figures who regularly tended for the sick. That was impressive since he was a “man of war”.On a side note, I thought it was interesting to see the Pilgrims - who I gathered were more or less pacifists - carrying guns and fighting off the invading Indians.
Traditionally the land was supposed to have been inhabited by the Etruscans, prior to ~700 B.C. It's interesting though that they would find things like this.
What you said sounds exactly right. I did a little reading on it and what I came up with was that it began after Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks. The city-states of Greece were initially led by a Spartan when the league was formed in 477 B.C. as an “alliance”, but the leadership reigns were quickly handed over to Athens. Many of the smaller city-states were unable to defend themselves from invasion, so they instead paid the tax to Athens to provide for the common navy/military (it appears that at the beginning, city-states were required to contribute men or ships to the cause of the league, rather than just money). The league appears to have gotten its name from the place of Delos, where the league treasury was stationed. Eventually by the 460s and 450s B.C. Athens was able to build itself militarily while the smaller city-states became weaker. Thucydides tells us that these smaller city-states were unable to revolt because of the lost resources they were paying to Athens, so they were essentially hurting themselves; the fact that Athens began to accept contributions entirely in money, rather than men or ships, worked to help finance Athens' projects. Eventually Athens began to use this league money for purposes other than things military-related; the Acropolis was built using this tax money. By 454 B.C. the treasury was moved from Delos to Athens, and around this time the league more or less was changed from being an alliance to become the Athenian Empire.I got this from the Wikipedia article on the Delian League. I should ready my Thucydides for more insight.
I think I was watching the same program on the Kennedy assassination that you were. I didn't catch the part you are talking about, though. I saw the JFK movie a while back and from what I recall, Stone has his theory and he was trying to connect the dots in the film.
The movie is supposed to be three “stories” (“episodes”) with a common love theme throughout them (finding the “Fountain of Youth” in one form or another. The first is from the 16th Century, the second is from the present day, and the third is from some time in the future.
“The Fountain” is in theaters. Apparently takes place over a thousand years, the first “episode” of which takes place in the Isabellan world. Starring Hugh Jackman and that girl from “The Mummy”.
I recently added a link in the General History area for a good site on “Underwater Archaeology”. Check it out sometime and rate it. If you've been on any archaeological dives in the past, I'd like to hear about it.
From what I understand, ancient artifacts (likely in the form of pottery fragments and other very minor archaeological finds) are regularly unearthed during foundation digs/building construction. These artifacts are then incorporated into the new building, such as by throwing them into cement of the new foundation. When you had an ancient city that was one million strong, you'd think you'd run across quite a few signs of the people of yesteryear.
Yes I believe that they said the Confederates saw the dome under construction. So that coincides with the pictures you saw.
What I'm saying though is the only way we can judge them is by the way they responded to challenges they faced. Reagan's great challenge was the end of the Cold War. Kennedy's great challenge was Cuba and a threatening USSR. Wilson's great challenge was the First World War and the attempts at forming a world stage for nations.We can't blame any president for uncontrollable events that occur during his tenure, but we can gauge how well the response was given the tools he had to work with. How would Clinton and Bush Jr. have fared had their periods in office been switched around?
