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new-old world: aboard the star raft

Who got to America first? Lots of theories have been batted around ranging from the Chinese to refugees from Atlantis, to Phoenicians and the Lost Tribes of Israel to those paddlers on the Nile, the Egyptians. Maybe the real answer … Continue reading

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new world disorder

Atlantis solved everything. With its vast bulk filling in most of the ocean, ancient voyagers no longer had to traverse thousands of miles of open water to go from the Old World to the New; all they had to do … Continue reading

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great leaps forward and back

Its hard to get around two thousand plus years of imperial tradition in sixty odd years of the People’s Republic of China. Even Mao Zedong was somewhat indebted to the weight of the past… For Mao Zedong the major public … Continue reading

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