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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (27922)	8/2/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Kona... OT................................ I just got this out...I hope you enjoy the time in France and please send me a reconfirmation of our date.. I thought you would enjoy it.. Dateline: 08/03/99 Nothing there is beyond hope, nothing that can be sworn impossible, nothing wonderful, since Zeus, father of the Olympians, made night from mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun, and sore fear came upon men. Archilochus We may know there's a scientific explanation for them, but solar eclipses continue to exert an almost magical power over us. It's not at all clear we've decreased in gullibility since the days when Columbus used his fore-knowledge of an eclipse to hoodwink the Jamaicans -- to judge from profits reaped on trips to and gear for the August 11, 1999 solar eclipse. And even though we know better, there will be people blinded by the too tempting sight of an eclipsed sun. The Eclipse Dragon On the other hand, we don't beat drums, fire arrows into the sky, and stand up to our necks in water in an effort to appease the gods as did the ancient Chinese and Indians. Both the Chinese and the Indians thought a snake attacked the sun during an eclipse. Noise making was an effort to scare the creature away. The earliest recorded eclipse was in China on October 22, 2134. Then two court astrologers lost their heads because, since they had failed to predict it, the emperor had been caught unprepared to make the necessary dragon-scaring noise. Almost a millennium later, in the fourteenth century BC, an eclipse was described by a Chinese seer as three flames eating the sun. Eclipse Omens Eclipses have been seen as evil omens whose presence changed the course of battle. In the eclipse of 585 BC -- the one Thales is said to have predicted -- five years of fighting ended between the Medes and Lydians as a result of an eclipse. In 413, the frightened Athenians suddenly abandoned their plan to move from Syracuse when a lunar eclipse appeared. The result was a rout by the Syracusans. Harmless Eclipses Eclipses may not have been universally feared. The people who built Stonehenge may have derived a sense of control from performing calculations of solar eclipses. Oddly, there is nothing in Egyptian literature about eclipses, although there is speculation that some of the symbols may be ecliptically based. Scientific Understanding of Eclipses The Babylonians were the first to calculate the regular intervals at which eclipses occur. It was through contact with the East that Thales of Miletus was able to make the prediction that marked the beginning of the Greek scientific/philosophic era. While there is some doubt as to whether Thales accurately predicted the eclipse attributed to him -- because he didn't fully understand all the cycles necessary to calculate the date and because Herodotus' reporting leaves room for doubt -- he is credited with predicting the May 25, 585 BC eclipse.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (27922)	8/2/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: LABMAN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

iqbal what was opinion on the late sell off during the day, after the dow was up as much as a 120 points, aol hit its 200 moving average at the close today, if she falls below where do you see heading lm