Archive for January, 2008
I have a Dream?!?! Just not a memory
They are some of the most famous words in American history: “I have a dream …” And the man who said them has become an icon.
Martin Luther King Jr. has certainly received his share of attention this year, the subject of a presidential campaign controversy over his legacy that blew up just around the time [...]
How to Kidnap a Child…. and the courts will help!!
I saw this article and had to repost… Shame that often the kids are put in the middle of custody battles…
Article by Stephen Baskerville
Congratulations! You have embarked on a great adventure. Kidnapping a child is probably unlike anything you have done before. If you are a first-time kidnapper you may be hesitant; perhaps you [...]
100 things that you did not know about Africa Pt 4
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76. Dr Albert Churchward, author of Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, pointed out that writing was found in one of the stone built ruins: “Lt.-Col. E. L. de Cordes . . . who was in South Africa for three years, informed the writer that in one of the ‘Ruins’ there is [...]
100 things that you did not know about Africa Pt 3
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51. The mediaeval Nigerian city of Benin was built to “a scale comparable with the Great Wall of China”. There was a vast system of defensive walling totalling 10,000 miles in all. Even before the full extent of the city walling had become apparent the Guinness Book of Records carried an entry [...]
100 things that you did not know about Africa but should have Pt 2
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26. West Africa had walled towns and cities in the pre-colonial period. Winwood Reade, an English historian visited West Africa in the nineteenth century and commented that: “There are . . . thousands of large walled cities resembling those of Europe in the Middle Ages, or of ancient Greece.”
27. Lord Lugard, an [...]
