Maps, Charts - How The USS Abraham Lincoln is In Canada

Globes and maps and charts in the early stages of America were unknown by the other sides: French in the north and west, British in the middle coast, Spanish to the south. Who knew where the Mississippi began?...

Roman Antiques, Archimedes - Hero of Rome, Killed by Rome

The expanding Roman Empire needed to have Sicily and the refined ancient city state of Syracuse in their fold. And also that great genius Archimedes. Alas, they killed their hero....

Roman Antiques in Africa, West Asia Show The Way to Metro Europe

Europe began as an early civilization in Greece, and was soon absorbed and copied by the Roman Empire, which created a Roman sea and their civilization and roads up to Gaul and Germania and all over Britannia. All roads led to Rome. That may on again....

Roman antiques - The Empire Strikes Back

The Roman Empire created a vast area of Europe, north Africa and west Asia. The Germanic peoples were always outside the pale: in north Britannia a wall had to be built to keep these barbarians back. Not any more....

Healthy Lifestyles, Happiness- Socrates, Reviled Alive, Revered Ever After

Socrates caused great consternation among the ruling class when their children who had studied with Socrates would question an unreasonable command from an elder. He was finally presented with his reward, that cup of hemlock. But those fingers who had pointed were soon hounded out of Athens in shame....

Roman Antiques - Cleopatra, Mark Antony Created Augustus Caesar and the Empire

Until Julius Caesar, Rome had been a Republic governed by the free votes of the Senate. Julius upset that and died; Mark Antony was send to Egypt. He was to negotiate and overtake Egypt, not wed Cleopatra and turn against Rome....

Panama and Its Fascinating History

The history of Panama dates back to almost 11,000 years before Christopher Columbus discovered Panama....

The Story of The Panama Canal

Discover one of the wonders of the world....

Tribal Jewelry, President Jefferson, a Mountain Man, an Indian Princess Create Sea to Sea America

To some of the bewigged gentlemen in the Cabinet Room of the new White House,President Thomas Jefferson, accepted as a genius and visionary by the world, perhaps his vision of an America from sea to sea was a noble ideal....

Antique History, Democracy - Slow Boat To China

Ancient Greece was that brilliant first burst of democracy. Men could be free to speak their minds. And young America emerged seeing the democracy of Greek as superior to the Caesar of Rome, as exists in China today. But how you going to keep them back in the yurt, once they have seen Shanghai? Or Athens?...