MIDDLE EAST HISTORY

Events regarding the Middle East dominate the nightly news broadcasts in both direct and indirect manners. The USA is now approaching 4,000 deaths in the current military exercise. Instability in the entire region affects us economically as well as politically.

I've found a site that illustrates the history of the region in a vary enlightening way. They say you can't tell the players without a score card. Well, here it is .....

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

AMERICA'S STONE AGE EXPLORERS

There will be an excellent program on the PBS series NOVA next Tuesday evening. It addresses the question, "When did humans first arrive in the Americas?" Most of my adult life anthropologists have felt that the "Clovis people" who invented the Clovis point weapon/tool were the first, about 13,500 years ago. Now many researchers are finding evidence they claim shows that man may have been in the Americas thousands of years earlier than this, maybe even tens of thousands of years earlier.

This should be well worth watching ....... certainly better than some lame sit-com or reruns of CSI-Miami!

The web-site for the show is http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/